Ok. I have a personal dropbox and a business dropbox account and what pain it is to have to log out of one and into another.  So for us legitimate users with multiple accounts that aren’t trying to take advantage of the system, how can we simplify our life and run both of our accounts
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Just a quick little post today about getting Debian to go into the backports for that package you want to install.. remember that just because you have the backports repo in your sources.list it doesn’t mean that apt-get install whatever is going to install the bp version of whatever.. If you want to ensure that
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Alright so last night I did a ton of upgrades and when I went to open GIMP this morning I found that it wasn’t there.  Awesome, the upgrades apparently removed it due to some unmet dependencies.  Not to be unexpected as my Debian is a veritable mixture of stable debian, backports, one or two SID installs
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I first saw this in action when I setup wordpress on a shared host after running it on my dedicated server for years.  All of a sudden when I clicked ‘install’ there was no FTP prompt, the bloody thing just installed!  I was amazed at this new development and looked into how it was done.
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For performance reasons I choose tmpfs as the filesystem of choice for /tmp and for security reasons I always make sure that /tmp has a noexec flag attached to it.  I’ve been admining webservers for 10 years now and by far the single greatest system wide breach of security happens with a script being placed
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Just incase you’ve setup a new Debian server and are unable to install rsync because of the following error: E: Package ‘rsync’ has no installation candidate it means that you’re missing a repo in your sources.list file.  So head over there and edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib non-free main and you’re
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So I was finally forced to upgraded to 2.8.7 when my previous install was hacked thanks to a security vulnerability in 2.8.2.  I knew there was a reason I was holding off on this because when I cleaned out the hack and upgraded I was greeted with an infinite look between admin/index.php and admin/install.php.   Solving
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Alright, what is this, day 10 since I started up the Drupal install, although really only day 5 since I’ve gotten serious with this beast.  The love affair has certainly been rocky but there might be an end in sight.  Today is the first day that I’ve gotten enough of the underlying systems in place
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Alright, the nightmare of getting a fully integrated Wiki into Drupal is finally over.  Hopefully some lucky soul finds this and saves themselves the literal days I spent getting this up and running.  At the end of my last post I mentioned a few links and articles here and there and I’m happy to report
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Up until this point I have been managing remote teams with a smattering of very useful tools.  phpBB3 or YaBB for message boards, Dotproject for project management, MediaWiki for internal documents, TeamSpeak for our voice conferences.  My toolbox was built up our of trial and error and sometimes following the path of least resistance.  But
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