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Archiving script refactorisation

Posted on December 19, 2012 by admin

Due to the main previous archiving script falling over itself I have started to write a new version with the help of #bash on freenode. Conceptual things I have changed: Using a whitelist of UUIDs instead of mountpoints  to determine … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu vs Debian (sever side)

Posted on October 19, 2011 by admin

The situation For a while now I have been considering changing from using Ubuntu server, whilst Ubuntu server does provide great support with updates. Distribution upgrades are known to fail with Ubuntu and with a cycle of 2 distribution releases per … Continue reading →

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Embedding Videos in WordPress

Posted on April 13, 2011 by admin

Problem Trying to add the embed code for something like YouTube or Vimeo gets stripped out by WordPress’s editor. On top of that, the standard embed option of leaving the URL to the website on a line of it’s own … Continue reading →

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ANAT Apache folders convention

Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

I’ll start by getting right to the point. This is how I structure the folders for Apache. Assumptions : Using Ubuntu (or a similar distro) Single main user, but can have multiple (virtual) FTP users You have full root access … Continue reading →

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Usefull Code for Mass Renaming

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

Found this snippit of code and thought someone else would find it usefull This was used to rename a bunch of log files with inconsistant naming schema to all lower case and with a .log extention instead of _log. #!/bin/bash … Continue reading →

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