my first day with debian

confessions of a pixel pusher linux technology

Yesterday I had to move a site that I wrote from LA to Paris. From redhat to debian. Overall not a bad experience. Debian is different but seems neither worse nor better than Redhat or Suse from what I can tell. apt-get is your friend. Why they felt that apache is a better name than httpd beats me.

Complex things go well and simple ones have surprises:
Changing the timezone back from Paris to LA I first ran tzselect.
That gave me the correct value. But then I had read on the web to change /etc/default/rcS. Which does not make sense to me: UTC is UTC is UTC. That’s what it’s there for. I then found /etc/timezone. I thought that would be it. Rebooted and, well, ssh
hash has changed. Interesting side effect. But still we were on the wrong time. Then I found that /etc/localtime was still (soft) linked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris. After changing this to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles the date command gave me thee ‘right’ time. But apache/php still reported mod times of files in the old style. A second reboot fixed also that.

’em crawling

malware

//wordpress/xmlrpc.php

putting a machine in the internet, and it does not take long until you get a request like the one above. There is a hole in WordPress, and apparently there are robots out there trying to find those.

Update or move it to a name that is less predictable.

Andreas

at last

google

vanity googling
Took me exactly seven years to get there.

it’s true

misc

it really smells

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BlogsNow

Turned off the ads on BlogsNow. Don’t feel like it right now.

god, they would not be that stupid

malware technology

of course they are

screen

linux

just discovered the

screen

again in linux. It is really nice: One person types screen the next
one screen -x and both type and read in the same session.
That is really nice for remote debugging etc etc.

and it costs?
Nothing
🙂

global umask for Apple os x 10.4 Tiger

Apple

this article speaks indeed the truth
Let’s say you want to make all files you create read writable by all other users then you would set a

umask

in unix. Well, OS X is a bit different here. What worked for me was:

sudo chmod g+w /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
open $!

The plist editor should come up (if you have Xcode installed).
Select the root branch and add a child called

NSUmask

and change its type to

number

save. reboot. enjoy
if you hose your system by doing this, then let me remind you that I don’t take responsibility for that.

It’s true

misc

what people are saying about those zoom lenses.

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of course it was first on blogsnow