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Les belles images

September 28, 2009 – 12:26 pm

Certains pays sont mal partis : l’Afrique noire en particulier; la poussée démographique en Chine et dans toute l’Asie est inquiétante; cependant grâce aux protéines synthétiques, à la contraception, à l’automation, à l’énergie nucléaire, on peut considérer que vers 1990 sera instaurée la civilisation de l’abondance et des loisirs. La terre ne formera plus qu’un [...]

By Eric van der Vlist | Posted in Books/Livres, Environnement, Français | Comments (0)

Debian/Ubuntu PHP packages and virtual hosts: introducing adminstance

September 23, 2009 – 12:41 pm

As a short term way to deal with my Debian/Ubuntu PHP packages and virtual hosts issue, I have written a pretty crude Python script that I have called “adminstance“.
This script can currently install, update and remove an instance of a web package such as websvn:

vdv@studio:~/Documents/Dyomedea/code/adminstance$ ./adminstance

Usages:

adminstance -h|–help
print this message

adminstance -l|–list
[...]

By Eric van der Vlist | Posted in English, Internet, Sysadmin | Comments (2)

Debian/Ubuntu PHP packages and virtual hosts

September 21, 2009 – 10:12 pm

I am a big fan of the Debian packaging system and use it on my Ubuntu systems as much as I can as it greatly simplifies both the installation of new software and more important their maintenance and security updates.
There is unfortunately one downside that bites me so often that I am really surprised that [...]

By Eric van der Vlist | Posted in English, Internet, Sysadmin | Comments (1)