Dries Buytaert: Drupal Developer Days Dublin 2013
Topic: DrupalDrupal Developer Days is a great tradition in Europe to provide space for developers and site builders to get together in the summer. After such prior locations as Barcelona and Brussels,...
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Mattias Geniar: Taking a MySQL-dump with a wildcard on table names
Situation: you want to take a mysqldump with all table-names that match a particular pattern, but you don't want all the tables.Here's how:root@serv: ~$ mysqldump YOURDBNAME $(mysql -D YOURDBNAME -Bse...
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Mattias Geniar: Puppet: Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server:...
As a Puppet user, you can run into the following error.~$ puppet agent -t Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/firewall/lib/facter/iptables_persistent_version.rb Info:...
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Frank Goossens: Stress op de trein
Gisteren op de trein deze cover van Metro (het gratis krantje) gespot:“Werken op het Spoor; 1 trein op 2 wordt afgeschaft” en die foto, daar hebben meer dan één treinreiziger bij gevloekt. Verscheidene...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Passive income and Open Source
Topic: DrupalEveryone dreams of making money while asleep. The term "passive income" is often defined as income that is received on regular intervals without requiring a great deal of work to sustain...
View ArticleGuy Van Sanden: Replacing Google reader, part 2
2 Weeks ago, I wrote about replacing Google reader on my blog and promised to get back to you with the results of the 2 alternatives I've been trying out: Owncloud news and Friendica's RSS...
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Wouter Verhelst: The end of an era
I've been singing for a long time. The first time I was a member of a choir was when I was around 6-7 years old, and it was as a member of the children's choir 'De Lambertijnen' in Ekeren, Belgium. Not...
View ArticleWard Vandewege: Selectively forcing PDF downloads for Firefox
The built-in PDF.js viewer in Firefox is nice, but it still has quite a few bugs. Most of the rendering issues are caused by it not supporting certain PDF features yet.Sometimes one needs to make a PDF...
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Gert Schepens: Why I shop Google Music
I like buying music. I bought a lot of CDs and contrary to some people I have a wad of CDs. Nothing out of the usual though, a few shelves. But I grew tired of buying disks, rippint them to digital and...
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Xavier Mertens: Crime Convergence
Convergence isn’t a new fact in information security. For a while, we’re speaking about “security convergence” while two, at the beginning, distinct principles or functions are mixed to tend toward or...
View ArticleDag Wieers: Chrome no longer supporting RHEL6 (and CentOS-6 and SL6)
As of yesterday, Google pushed Chrome stable v28 into their google-chrome repository and effectively killed RHEL6 support:Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package...
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Lionel Dricot: Le rôle secret de PRISM dans l’échec de l’attentat fritier
Le scandale PRISM a révélé que le gouvernement américain espionnait les citoyens de tous les pays. Mais pour le brigadier Alzeway, responsable de la section de protection des friteries de la police de...
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Frank Goossens: Music from our Tube; Jean Michel Jarre on TV in 1977
For a long time electronic music seems to have been considered as being a gimmick, a fad. Back in 1976 Jean Michel Jarre, one of the pioneers, recorded “Oxygène” and the next year he was in Holland to...
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Xavier Mertens: Proud of My First Targeted Attack… or Not!
Connecting a server to the Intertubes is like connecting it to the wild. There are plenty of bots (thousands? millions?) scanning IP addresses for vulnerable services. Once a service is enabled on an...
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Lionel Dricot: Augmentez la taille de votre… visibilité
Dans « Qui veut la peau de Roger Rabbit ? », le producteur de cinéma véreux lance une friandise à Dumbo et se tourne vers le détective en lui disant :— Ce qui est marrant avec Dumbo, c’est qu’il ne...
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Xavier Mertens: La Nuit du Hack 2013 Wrap-Up
My clock tower is completed! I left home yesterday at 6AM to Disneyland Ressort Paris and I’m just back at 6AM. It’s too late to go to bed so I finished to write my Nuit du Hack wrap-up. This was the...
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Kristof Willen: An upgrade too far
I should work for the Canonical QA team. Whenever I do something on an Ubuntu based machine, hell brakes loose. Here I am, working on my LTS 12.4 machine, when suddenly I notice that an upgrade to a...
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Kristof Willen: Red Hat summit 2013, Boston
I visited the Red Hat summit in Boston lately. Two and a half days of sessions about the latest and greatest of RHEL and the multiverse of software around it. I really like it, though 2.5 days is way...
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Kristof Willen: Nikon D3200
My old Canon PowerShot S3 has been faithfully serving about +11000 pictures for me, but the last year I noticed more and more noise on my pictures. Probably a sign that the CCD chip was wearing out. I...
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Frank Goossens: Music from our Tube; Moderat, Rusty Nails
I have always enjoyed German electro, but where have I been the last 4 years to have missed this masterpiece by Moderat (i.e. Modeselektor + Apparat)? “Rusty Nails” is on continuous repeat in my head...
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