Took my chance and moved our server Wealtheow from i386 to amd64 archs. A busy sunday it was. This step-by-step guide on debian i386 to amd64 conversion was really handy. I was in a hurry and needed clear and concise instructions. My only trouble with the procedure was on the last step. My initrd image [...]
If you run a multilingual wordpress site with wmpl you’ll probably need to customize your theme files. Adapting the basic Arthemia theme is covered on an article on wpml.org. Here you can find instructions to make Arthemia-Premium work with WPML. If this helped you can always If this helped, but not enough, you can try [...]
I like to keep current the version of puppet on visualtis; a smallish without no much overhead when rolling-up the updates. In the end nothing breaks badly if puppet isn’t working properly. For a few months I had no time to invest in puppet and I ended migrating three minor versions of puppet. Namely from [...]
A short git hook (pre-commit) to check for css sanity before I commit changes to the git repo. Css validation done with the cssparse tool from css-utils (python). The idiom to get a list of staged git files and filter it is handy on other pre-commit scripts. for css in $(git diff-index –name-only –cached HEAD — | [...]
Bootstraped a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with Lenny. I was surprised by the many candies hiding on the current Debian-Installer. In spite of the eternal and recurrent internal struggle each Debian release is way better than its predecesor; and I mean way better, not just up-to-date. The only pitfall on the installation was grub mishandling the Sas6 [...]
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