Archive for February, 2012
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
When I wrote the first versions of Dynamite and Unshield (eight and nine years ago!) I decided from the start that each project had to be implemented in two parts: a library (hopefully reusable) and a command line tool using the library. I believe I learned this from cURL and ...
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
Download from http://virtualboxes.org/images/ubuntu-server/
VBoxManage register "/storage2/virtualboxes/Ubuntu server 11.10/Ubuntu server 11.10.vbox"
VBoxManage list vms
"Ubuntu server 11.10" {231c28f0-19bb-48d7-9db4-ba29de37e5fd}
VBoxManage modifyvm "Ubuntu server 11.10" --usbehci off
VBoxManage modifyvm "Ubuntu server 11.10" --pae on
VBoxManage modifyvm "Ubuntu server 11.10" --nic1 bridged --bridgeadapter1 em0
VBoxManage sharedfolder add "Ubuntu server 11.10" --name backup --hostpath /backup
nohup VBoxHeadless --startvm "Ubuntu server 11.10" -n 2>&1 &
Connect ...
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
I have customized my DokuWiki installation to allow multiple wikis, similar to running multiple WordPress blogs on different domains. My /etc/dokuwiki/local.php looks like this:
This means that I have multiple DokuWiki sites in my /var/lib/dokuwiki/ directory. To copy only one of them:
Copy the /etc/dokuwiki/hostname directory and symbolic links
Copy the /var/lib/dokuwiki/hostname directory and symbolic ...
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
cd /var/tmp/
curl -O https://www.tarsnap.com/download/tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.31.tgz (or actually the latest version from https://www.tarsnap.com/download.html)
sudo apt-get install gcc e2fslibs-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev make
cd tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.31 (directory name corresponding to the downloaded tarball)
./configure && make && sudo make install
sudo tarsnap-keygen --keyfile /root/tarsnap.key --user username --machine machinename (note that my blog converts two dashes to a single long dash so you need to ...
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