Tag: Debian
Administering Dozens of Debian Servers
December 16th, 2008, 19 Comments
At work, we have quite a few Debian servers. We have a few physical machines, then a number of virtual machines running under Xen. These servers are split up mainly along task-oriented lines: DNS server, LDAP server, file server, print server, mail server, several web app servers, ERP system, and the like. In the past, [...]
New version of datapacker
September 25th, 2008, 1 Comment
I wrote before about datapacker, but I didn’t really describe what it is or how it’s different from other similar programs. So, here’s the basic problem the other day. I have a bunch of photos spanning nearly 20 years stored on my disk. I wanted to burn almost all of them to DVDs. I can [...]
Thoughtfulness on the OpenSSL bug
May 14th, 2008, 5 Comments
By now, I’m sure you all have read about the OpenSSL bug discovered in Debian. There’s a lot being written about it. There’s a lot of misinformation floating about, too. First thing to do is read this post, which should clear up some of that. Now then, I’d like to think a little about a [...]
Debian Developers 7 Years Ago
May 23rd, 2007, 1 Comment
Today while looking for something else, I stumbled across a DVD with the “last archive” of my old personal website. On it were a number of photos from the 2000 Annual Linux Conference in Atlanta, and the Debian developers that were there. These were posted in public for several years. I’ve now posted all of [...]
Debian GNU/Mom?
October 18th, 2006, No Comments
A couple of weeks ago, I posted this photo of Terah holding Jacob: When I first saw the gowns that the hospital was giving to people, I almost burst out laughing. Let’s take a closer look at the gowns: This looks similar to Debian’s logo: When Peter came to visit us, I said, “Do you [...]
HP Officially Supports Debian
August 14th, 2006, 1 Comment
Yes, it’s true. I have two words for this: Woohoo! Finally.
How to solve “The following packages cannot be authenticated”
June 15th, 2006, 29 Comments
Users of Debian’s testing or unstable distributions may be noticing messages from apt saying things like: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! foo bar baz Install these packages without verification [y/N]? I noticed today that google doesn’t turn up good hits for the fix. The fix is really simple: apt-get install debian-archive-keyring apt-get update [...]
Dupes really fixed now
March 31st, 2006, 4 Comments
Thanks to some assistance from Garvin (lead Serendipity developer), it looks like the bug that Planet dislikes so intensely is indeed the <slash:comments> tag. I don’t believe this is a bug in Serendipity bug rather in Planet. (There is still, IMHO, a pubDate bug in Serendipity, but it appears to be unrelated) So, the dupes [...]
Sorry for the dupes
March 30th, 2006, 3 Comments
It seems that some of my posts are appearing on Planet Debian multiple times, and others not at all. I think the problem is a strange combination between subtle bugs in Planet and Serendipity. The SF bug report for Serendipity is here. I think the workaround should fix this. Either that, or Planet is somehow [...]
Quick and Easy IPv6 for Debian
January 19th, 2004, 13 Comments
A lot of people have asked about IPv6 in Debian. There have been some instructions floating around, but all of them I’ve seen are overly complex. Here’s how to set up your own 6to4 tunnel in about 5 minutes (assuming your kernel is IPV6-ready), without the need of freenet6 or any other tunnel broker. You [...]
