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WordPress bumped to 2.7.1, fairly smooth

I…

downloaded
backed up
deactivated plugins
dumped code base over my installation – crazy! it’s full of customizations…
browsed to admin and pressed “upgrade”
updated 5 plugins
reactivated plugins

I had to install the advanced version of TinyMCE, flush Firefox’s cache, and disable/re-enable the visual editor (from the user’s settings) before the editor would give me the Visual/HTML tabs. Other than that things are humming.

WordPress is simply amazing software – did you know it only uses 11 tables to work its magic? And I don’t think anyone appreciates the effort they put into keeping it elegant, backwards-compatible, free from scope-creep, etc. etc. Cheers to auttomatic.

Comments | Thursday, March 5, 2009

If you want to forward X packets, you need [xauth]

Here’s the path I want to send X packets across:

[nightly] - corporatefirewall - internets - [server] - [desktop]

The server only has what it needs to serve, which means no X server. I assumed that my X packets would just get merrily passed through when using [ssh -Y]. But the server didn’t have the [xauth] package installed – without it, you don’t get X authentication – in fact, all you do get is the extremely unhelpful error message “can’t open display”.

emerge -Davu xauth
(18 package installations, yikes!)

Next I had to make sure that ssh allowed X packets, and allowed them over TCP. Edit [/etc/ssh/sshd_config]:

Match User m
    X11Forwarding yes
    AllowTcpForwarding yes

Of course, I’m a bad person for doing this kind of insecure stuff. Silly me giving up security for usefulness. Oh well.

Comments | Monday, November 17, 2008

server gets memory

I dumped new memory into my gentoo server. The stuff I pulled out (along with a couple pounds of DUST) was weird:

ch1: Infineon 1024MB DDR 333 CL2.5 PC-2700 128Mx72
ch2: elixir 512MB DDR 266Mhz CL2.5 PC-2100

Where the hell did I scrounge up that cruft…. Replaced with:

ch1+2: G.SKILL 1024MB DDR 400 CL2.5-3-3-6 PC-3200 2.6V

The other weird thing is the mobo has 4 slots – 2 DDR and 2 SDR. So I had to dump the first set of memory. Just as well.
I’m literally still sneezing from all the dust…

Comments | Friday, October 24, 2008

[subversion] USE flag now required to get git-svn

Added [subversion] to make.conf. gentoo tracks this flag on the git package to determine whether to install git-svn or not. I can’t imagine anywhere that I wouldn’t want svn support, so I made it global.

[x] tdm2 [x] wimpy [x] tdm

Comments | Monday, October 13, 2008

Spamassassin getting squeezed, try a world bump…

Spamassassin was failing, all I needed was a kill, zap, and restart. But in my typical kid-in-a-candyshop fashion, I used it as an excuse to bump up the server to the latest goodies. BAD admin! But it wasn’t very many packages, and gentoo made it smooth as always. Included a bump to kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r8, and a postfix bump (which dispatch-conf made trivial). Sweet.