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Drupal project part two

Wed, 08/06/2014 - 09:12

Previously, I complained about the instability of the Drupal project module. The last days, I have been working on and off to analyze where the problems are and to solve some of them. It is now possible to see the list of releases on the project page and most pages do not return errors anymore.

VPN woes

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 18:02

Yet another random wifi network to connect to - this time in a small cottage in Slovenia. It actually allows access to internet, allows me to setup a VPN, so all seems well. Except for one little thingie: for some reason, it blocks outgoing SMTP traffic.

Well, no problem, there. I want to mail from my laptop, and it delivers to the mail server on my server. No problem there, if I route the traffic through the VPN, right? Wrong. After setting up the VPN it is still not working.

Wireless access point

Sun, 07/06/2014 - 21:50

My wireless access point at home is actually a Realtek 2500 wireless card on my server. I use my server as the place to put access policies and as a broker for all traffic (my public IP address is also on it, instead of on the modem in front of it).

Drupal project

Sun, 07/06/2014 - 21:38

I have added the Drupal module project to this website. This should make it easy to host your own software on Drupal. The Drupal site itself is using it, or at least it claims so. Regrettably, there is only an unstable release, and that is now more than a year old. I got it kind of working with the latest git version - but there is no CVS integration, the attached view that should list available releases does not seem to work and it regularly gives errors.

A small tool

Tue, 06/17/2014 - 18:16

I wanted a simple thing: install some packages to support my wireless card. It seems I need a non-free driver for that, which is kind of disappointing; but that is life.

In some earlier experiment, I had installed the latest Linux kernel from the unstable archive (I am running stable on my laptop). No big deal, that: I have done it before on earlier Debian releases. There is always a small risk (both in terms of stability and of non-declared dependencies) but one can always decide to go back to the old kernel if there are problems.

Getting USB to boot

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 21:54

Most things just seem to work on my new Lenovo Thinkpad E145 laptop - but, as always, some things just do not work out of the box. Problems with WIFI are almost expected, but not being able to boot from USB is plain weird.

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