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Linux Software RAID1 defekte Platte tauschen

Mathias — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:20:49 +0000

Da auf meinem Rootserver zum wiederholten Mal Probleme mit der zweiten Festplatte (/dev/sdb) auftraten, wurde diese soeben im Rechenzentrum getauscht (ein Lob an Hetzner für den schnellen Support). Da die Platte Bestandteil eines Software RAID1-Verbunds ist, kurz die Schritte zum Entfernen und anschließenden Reaktivieren der Platte. Zuerst alle Partitionen der Platte auf faulty setzen und anschließend [...]

Debian logcheck ignore file for sSMTP

Mathias — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:19:00 +0000

On a server, I use logcheck to get an email based on logfile analysis if anything goes wrong and doesn’t fit the usual patterns. In addition, I use sSMTP to forward all sent mails to my mailserver. Unfortunately, this solution ends up in sending a mail like the following every hour because of a bug [...]

Facile Forms Framework - Patrick O’Neill

Mathias — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:32:51 +0000

Facile Forms Framework - Patrick O’Neill.

Magento: access a dropdown attribute value

Mathias — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:49:18 +0000

In Magento it is possible to access a product’s attributes with a simple getter method. Let’s get the attribute test: $_product->getTest() This works as long as test is an attribute of type ‘text’. If the attribute is a dropdown, the method will just return the id of the selected option. To get the dropdown text, you need [...]

Debootstrap a Ubuntu Hardy DomU on a Debian Etch Xen Dom0

Mathias — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:47:28 +0000

Lately, I wanted set up a Ubuntu Hardy DomU on an existing Debian Etch Dom0 box. Usually, setting up Debian-based DomUs is very simple with xen-create-image and debootstrap (there are tons of tutorials out there dealing with this topic), but unfortunately Etch’s version of debootstrap doesn’t support Ubuntu Hardy. I spent a surprisingly long time [...]

Use PuTTY as Cygwin terminal

Mathias — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:38:01 +0000

“Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.” This means, you can use linux/unix commandline tools like ls, grep and find on your Windows system. However, the default installation of Cygwin uses Windows’ default commandline terminal cmd.exe, which is not really handy. Fortunately, there’s a solution to use PuTTY as Cygwin terminal. Download and install Cygwin. The [...]

Magento design resources

Mathias — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:27:35 +0000

As the documentation on Magento is a bit…spread around the web: here’s a collection of links to guides and hints how to deal with magento’s templating system (partially german). I will add more as I find them. Designer’s Guide to Magento Designer’s Guide to Magento (PDF) Theming Magento Commerce (many links are from there) Designing for Magento Magento folder structure How [...]

Use VPN connections in network-manager-pptp without rebooting

Mathias — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:18:50 +0000

When configuring VPN connections in Ubuntu through network-manager-pptp the connections don’t get displayed until a reboot due to a bug. In the bugtracker I found a solution which makes the connections available without a reboot. First, restart dbus sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart Then run the NetworkManager applet by opening a command window with ALT+F2 and typing in nm-applet.

IGNOREME

Mathias — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:11:16 +0000

Just found this in PvPGN’s README CONGRATULATIONS!!!! WHY ?? BECAUSE YOU ARE ONE OF THE VERY VERY VERY FEW WHO READ THE README FILE!! But because the other, huge percentage do NOT, we moved the actual contents of this file into IGNOREME file because the chances for most of the people to read IGNOREME are at least [...]

Raumbelegung Update

Mathias — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:16:13 +0000

Wieder ein Update für den Raumbelegungs-Webservice: das Webinterface wurde (zumindest für vernünftige Browser) zum Großteil webzweinulljqueryajaxifiziert ™. Außerdem gibts mittlerweile den Desktopclient in der aktualisierten Version für die neue Basis zum Download auf der Projektseite.