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Server Maintenance

The EIDE drive in my server died.. It had a grand life - 4-Oct-2004 to 3-Mar-2007 on Slackware 9.1 and only two reboots. I moved to Debian Etch for the OS - Slackware has been rock solid, but after swapping to Debian on other machines, the maintenance and software availability are just too [...]

Web 2.0 Design Kit

Found a killer Web 2.0 Design tutorial, while digging around for some icon ’shoppery. Here is part 2 of the tutorial.

Ubuntu User #1142

Ah, a nice number with the “meaning of life and everything” at the end…

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 SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=7908; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
michael@apollo:~$ ssh-add
Enter passphrase for /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa:
Identity [...]

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, that [...]