Wheezy upgrades

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Debian 7.0 “wheezy” was officially released about a week ago. I’ve been running it on a couple of systems for a few months already because of the more recent software versions available on it. Today I upgraded one of the shell servers, a couple of days ahead of the originally posted schedule due to security updates to MySQL (DSA-2667). As usual for Debian, the upgrade process is well documented1 and robust. However, here are some notes for upgrading the next instance. (more…)

Staying connected on the train

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VR-junaverkko blocks most outgoing ports, which is a repeating source of annoyance when traveling. I would think that a traffic shaping approach would be more effective, but maybe I don’t have a sufficient understanding of their bandwith limitations. (more…)

Two-factor authentication for WordPress

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Content management systems are being targeted by brute-force password attacks. Improve the security of your self-hosted WordPress blog by installing the Google Authenticator plugin. (more…)

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I hadn’t run offlineimap for a month on my desktop. It brought in 2300 new messages…
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VMware ESXi won’t do jumbo frames on my Intel card (e1000 driver). Splitting the home network into two subnets with different MTU sizes is also less than ideal as mDNS (Mac, Apple TV) and Squeezebox server advertisements would need a proxy of some sort.

File Vault volumes cannot be resized

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Turns out one has to turn off File Vault to resize the underlying partition. However, resizing does not work when running off of the recovery partition (which you might be doing to run fsck on the primary partition). (more…)

Irlantilainen soodaleipä

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Ainekset:

  • 3½ dl vehnäjauhoja
  • 2½ dl grahamjauhoja
  • 1 tl ruokasoodaa
  • 1½ tl leivinjauhetta
  • 3 tl muscovado-sokeria
  • 3 dl rasvaista piimää

Valmistus:

  1. Kytke uuni päälle, 200ºC.
  2. Mittaa kuivat ainekset kulhoon.
  3. Sekoita sokeri huolellisesti jauhoihin niin, ettei sitä jää kokkareiksi.
  4. Lisää piimä ja sekoita kunnes kaikki jauhot ovat taikinassa.
  5. Vaivaa taikina kevyesti tasaiseksi jauhotetulla alustalla.
  6. Muotoile taikinasta n. 4 cm korkea limppu leivinpaperin päälle.
  7. Tee limppuun leipäveitsen tylsällä syrjällä syvä ristikuvio.
  8. Paista n. 45 minuuttia. Kypsä leipä kuulostaa koputettaessa ontolta.
  9. Jäähdytä ritilällä. Jos haluat pehmeämmän kuoren, jäähdytä pyyhkeen alla.
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Aperture 3.4 will not open after OS X 10.8.2 has been installed — how nice that others had already figured out a workaround.

Time to upgrade Asterisk

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SIP appears to be broken in the Asterisk 1.6 packages released to address DSA-2550. I resorted to a hasty upgrade to Asterisk 1.8 from backports. (more…)