Vacations
The next two weeks, I`ll take some vacations, half of it's with rarely and slow IP connection. I don't know right now, if this is luck or bad luck, but I'll see hows going. I hope the weather will be much better than…
Got mad? or Why are modules autoloaded without hotplug or discover?
Today my goal was to get an AVM Fritz!Card running to send SMS via yaps [http://www.sta.to/ftp/yaps/]. Since on the old system is running kernel 2.4.x at the time of setup the only option was to use the capi driver and some hacks…
Thoughts about LVM
Since I started playing around with vserver there is the problem left restricting the capacity of the disk usage of the guests. One solution may be to use one partition per vserver guest. But what to do if there is more (or less) space needed on the systems? Shutting them…
X11 forwarding via ssh on vserver
If you want to use X11 forwarding through ssh you need to modify your /etc/ssh/ssh_config: # echo "X11UseLocalhost no" > /etc/ssh/ssh_config # /etc/init.d/ssh restart…
Facelifting and extending the site
Maybe you have noticed, the site got some enhancements, more content and got polished. non complete list: * sidebar is switched to widgets [http://automattic.com/code/widgets/] * some plugins was customized and send back to upstream * K2 [http://getk2.com/] was updated to revision 360, since all the modifications moved…
Hacking Extended Live Archives plugin to support multisite installations
Since I´m running a couple blogs on one wordpress installation I noticed today, that ELA [http://www.sonsofskadi.net/extended-live-archive/] doesn't work well in this environment. Since it uses only one cache directory the archive is mixed up with all these articles. I was digging around and…
Hacking google-highlight plugin
Today I found a nice plugin for highlighting search strings from referrer called google-highlight [http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/google-highlight/], when coming from a search engine. The problem was, when the site includes a substring of $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] it was highlighted ... maybe not what you want. Here…
Vserver Debian sarge as host and guest system
Starting with installing some packages from backports.org [http://www.backports.org]: # aptitude install -t sarge-backports util-vserver \ linux-image-2.6-vserver-<arch> This may be a good moment to reboot your host system. :) Following the setup process of the virtual server [http://www.5dollarwhitebox.org/wiki/index.php/Howtos_Linux-Vserver_…