To get the console of your Linux guests on a Xen machine, type "xm console ". Then to exit, press "ctrl-]". When in screen, do "ctrl-a, a, ctrl-]".
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halfgaar, 2 years ago, on
January 31, 2010, at 20:01 |
This is a simple netconfig for a static IP address on a Debian machine. In /etc/network/interfaces, replace your eth0 (or whatever) with this:
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halfgaar, 2 years ago, on
January 31, 2010, at 20:01 |
The concept of Debian stable is kind of nice, since you don't have to be affraid of upgrade breakages all the time, but it can also be annoying, because things like spamfilters and virusscanners are fast-moving and you often end up with old versions of those. That is why the Debian volatile project exists.
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halfgaar, 2 years ago, on
January 30, 2010, at 12:01 |
Ewald wants to be able to make video/photo montages of his life at la Boucoule. While there last month, I helped him along with Windows Movie Maker (WMM) a bit. WMM doesn't like Quicktime video's (as outputted by his camera), so I found a simple Windows program that wraps around ffmpeg to convert these movies to AVI format: Pazera Free MOV to AVI Converter 1.2.
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Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on
January 30, 2010, at 03:01 |
Yesterday night, after mucking around with my Subversion repo for this blog for way too long, I finally stopped annoying the designer of my new theme and uploaded it, one and a half year after the last major redesign. Anyway, while implementing the new design for the comment list , I decided it was time to have comment previews.
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Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on
January 30, 2010, at 03:01 |
A while ago we succeeded in upgrading the Debian server where I keep many of my SVN repositories. (The server was running on “testing”, but we hadn't dared to upgrade it for a long time until it came time to make it “stable” again with Lenny.) On of the upgraded packages in Lenny is Subversion, now at 1.5.1, which means that I can finally start using subversions new merge tracking features.
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Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on
January 30, 2010, at 02:01 |
Because Arnold Pilon is migrating his workplace to Apple, I could get his old PC and peripherals for free. Among its peripherals was an old HP LaserJet 6P, still perfectly working.
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Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on
January 30, 2010, at 01:01 |
Basically, there are two types of VPN's: IP route and ethernet bridge. I configured an IP route VPN, based on this document.
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halfgaar, 2 years ago, on
January 25, 2010, at 15:01 |
in /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf:
allow \.docx$ - -
allow \.xlsx$ - -
allow \.x(ml)?\d{0,}\.rel$ - -
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halfgaar, 2 years ago, on
January 22, 2010, at 21:01 |
I wanted to mark this notable event:
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halfgaar, 2 years ago, on
January 19, 2010, at 21:01 |
