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Ubuntu (Berlin) Global Jam at c-base and Daniel Holbach’s notebook
Members of “Ubuntu Berlin” met yesterday at c-base within the Ubuntu Global Jam. While it was nice seeing new and international faces showing up and introducing newcomers to advanced Launchpad usage,...
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Using backuppc as a dirty distributed shell
Backuppc is a neat server-based backup solution. In Linux envorinments it is often used in combination with rsync over ssh – and, let’s be hontest – often fairly lazy sudo or root rights for the rsync...
View ArticleShort talk on MariaDB at Linuxtag 2011
If you happen to be around at this years LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin/Germany, you are invited to attend my short talk on MariaDB as a drop-in replacement for MySQL. The talk focusses on differences between...
View Articleslides from the ‘From MySQL to MariaDB’ presentation
As announced, I held a short talk on switching from MySQL community edition (especially 5.1) to MariaDB (currently 5.2.6) at this years LinuxTag in Berlin. Here are the (German) slides for reference:...
View ArticleBootstrapping a Puppet agent/master on Ubuntu
Though it’s really great that Puppet made it into Ubuntu’s main repository, the provided version is rather outdated which prevents you from using advanced language features when writing your manifests....
View ArticleRubyGems 9.9.9 packaged – Fake install RubyGems on Debian/Ubuntu
For a lot of reasons I often rely on a mixture of a Debian/Ubuntu pre packaged Ruby with a self compiled RubyGems. It helps you in situations where you don’t care that much about the Ruby interpreter...
View ArticleRecovering Linux file permissions
I recently ran into a server, where somebody accidently issued a “chown -R www-data:www-data /var”. So all files and directories within /var where chowned to the www-data which actually means a...
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How to log history and logins from multiple ssh-keys under one user account
Many times your managed server has only one user account into wich every admin logs in with his personal ssh-key. Most times it’s done with the root account, but that’s a nother topic As a result of...
View ArticleDetecting and Removing Unused Indexes in MySQL
Preface: The following post is a backup from a post first published on the Moviepilot Techblog, which is going to be replaced by the Moviepilot Labs Blog. The content is a bit outdated, as the way to...
View ArticleHowto setup a KVM server the fast way
This is a very short quick setup on how to get KVM server up and running. It assumes that you want to run a KVM server with at least one virtual machine, your KVM server gets an ip address in your...
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