June 2006

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Heh – nice graph of web development process ;)

ssh-add over ssh

ssh-add picks up the agent fine when using X11, but when logged into a remote ssh session: michael@apollo:~$ ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. Ah, we have to fire up ssh-agent and cut/paste the env variables… michael@apollo:~$ ssh-agent SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-erlzEU7907/agent.7907; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=7908; export SSH_AGENT_PID; echo Agent pid 7908; michael@apollo:~$ SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-erlzEU7907/agent.7907; export [...]

Debian Sarge(ish) x86-64 Xen Installation

Following along a great debian-administration.org article, titled, “Debian Sid gets Xen 3.0″, I set up a minimal Debian Sarge AMD64 install from debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso for use as a Xen development server. The full text of this post contains my step-by-step how-to on my successful installation. I ran a default netinstall installation, selecting no additional software packages, [...]

lftp> mirror

I have been a big ncftp user for many years, and I am really starting to like lftp – escaping the lftp shell for command-line access and the way lftp maintains session persistance through re-authentication have made me a believer. I found a little mirroring issue with the Smarty cache from the CMS application, CMSMadeSimple, [...]

A Must Read: “Three Cups of Tea”

A book for our friends, our country, our leaders, our time. “The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time you take tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become part of the family,” Mortenson recalls Haji Ali as [...]