Chaos Mind getting into order

The Jobless Rate for People Like You

Artur Martins — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:24:56 +0000

Not all groups have felt the recession equally. Check your Jobless Rate at NY Times.

Drupal won the PHP CMS Award

Artur Martins — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:36:19 +0000

Looks that Drupal is having a great year: Drupal won the best Open Source PHP CMS Award. Even more, the White House official website is built with Drupal. It’s really getting a lot of interest nowadays.

Hope that the version 7 comes out for Xmas

Calendário 2010

Artur Martins — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:46:40 +0000

À semelhança do ano anterior, deixo aqui o endereço para impressão do calendário para 2010 com respectivos feriados portugueses. Se quiserem podem alterar o formato ou os parâmetros de criação do calendário.

Igualmente, para a malta dos calendários digitais, mantenho o meu calendário ‘Feriados Nacionais Portugueses‘ disponível no Google Calendar, já com os feriados de 2010 actualizados, em formato XML, ICAL ou HTML.

Bom proveito

We will survive

Artur Martins — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:20:22 +0000

Who said that classic music is boring??

We Will Survive: Igudesman & Joo + Kremer & Kremerata

Drunkest Guy Ever

Artur Martins — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:08:28 +0000

Really funny!

Feiras Novas 2009

Artur Martins — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:48:51 +0000

Conhecem as http://feirasnovas.com de Ponte de Lima?
É já este fim-de-semana!

Quem vai?

mounting FTP directory using curlftpfs

Artur Martins — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:16:36 +0000

Quick guide for mounting FTP directory using curlftpfs on a Debian Lenny system

1 – install curlftpfs
aptitude install curlftpfs

2 – create mount point:
make /mnt/ftp-dir

3 – add this line in /etcfstab:
curlftpfs#ftp.example.com /mnt/ftp-dir fuse rw,uid=0,noauto 0 0

4 – add some security for authentication. Create file /root/.netrc
    machine ftp.example.com
    login ftp-user
    password ftp-pass

Note: May not suit your needs. I would recommend you to read those pages:

Warning: database /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliases

Artur Martins — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:55:05 +0000

Problem found in the /var/log/syslog:

postfix/smtpd[4183]: warning: database /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliases

Solution:

As root, erase the /etc/aliases.db file and create a new one:
# rm /etc/aliases.db # newaliases

Done!

udev blocks update

Artur Martins — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:17:13 +0000

I got an error today trying to upgrade a gentoo cluster:

[blocks B ] >=sys-fs/udev-126 (“>=sys-fs/udev-126″ is blocking
sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6)

Solution:

emerge -u cryptsetup

Done! After try to reboot to check if the udev detects all your network devices correctly.

cloning virtual machines on VMWare Server 2.x

Artur Martins — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:41:55 +0000

I’ve been using for a while the VMWare Server 2.x for Linux and I’m quite happy with it. Unfortunately, this free product doesn’t offer some useful functionalities like cloning a virtual machine. It’s a pity because it’s time consuming to create all the virtual machines from scratch.

Fortunately, cloning a virtual machine is easy process but doing it manually it’s not free of error-proning. So, I created a small and simple bash script to handle this process automatically, smoothly and clean. The script, called vmclone (oh, I’m so original!!), is available at my github account for the public to use it.

Let me warn you: it’s a very simple bash script that suits my needs and may not suit yours. Feel free to modify it and to send me some feedback or suggestions in order to improve it.

Have fun!