Category Archives: Sysadmin

See you in Prague

Just got the confirmation that I’ll be presenting a paper on XQuery injection at XML Prague March 26th or 27th. I look forward to attending once again this conference which in a few years has become one of the best … Continue reading

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Notes de migration de Gallery 2 vers WordPress et NextGEN Gallery

Quelques notes rapides prises lors de la migration de mes albums Gallery 2 vers le plugin WordPress NextGEN Gallery… Attention : les manipulations de bases de données décrites ici sont dangereuses et il n’y a aucune garantie qu’elles fonctionnent pour … Continue reading

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Debian/Ubuntu PHP packages and virtual hosts: introducing adminstance

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 … Continue reading

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Debian/Ubuntu PHP packages and virtual hosts

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. … Continue reading

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Publishing GPG or PGP public keys considered harmful?

In a previous post, I have expressed the common thinking that digitally signed emails would be a strong spam stopper. I am still thinking that a more general usage of electronic signatures would be really effective to fight against spammers, … Continue reading

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Non content based antispam sucks

My provider has recently changed the IP address of one of my server and my logs are flooded with messages such as: Dec 7 08:21:57 gwnormandy postfix/smtp[22362]: connect to mx00.schlund.de[212.227.15.134]: server refused to talk to me: 421 Mails from this … Continue reading

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The complex simple problem of media types

Media types (previously called mime types) always stuck me as something which is simple in theory but awfully complex in practise. When they seem to be working, you can enjoy your luck and be sure that this is only temporary … Continue reading

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Modifier les dependances d’un paquet Debian

Quand on installe des paquets provenant de sources non officielles, il arrive fréquemment que les dépendances déclarées dans les paquets ne correspondent pas au système sur lequel on installe ces paquets. C’est le cas par exemple lorsque l’on installe la … Continue reading

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Using Orbeon PresentationServer with a recent version of eXist

Why would you want to do that? Orbeon PresentationServer is currently shipping with eXist 1.0 beta2. This is true of both OPS version 2.8 (the current stable release) and OPS 3.0 beta 3 (the latest beta of the next generation). … Continue reading

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SVG a sparklingPoint, multimedia sur XMLfr

Comme promis, j’ai fini par transcrire la présentation d’Antoine Quint à sparklingPoint. Ce faisant, j’en ai profité pour aller plus loin et publier également la version sonore de son intervention et comme cela, sans être très complexe, a justifié l’utilisation … Continue reading

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