Sometimes you encounter a bug which makes you... not so happy.
On the Unquendor site, which is still Drupal 6, I use profile fields extensively. These are basically attributes of users. Not only names and addresses, but also things like visits to events and even a member's payment status is kept in this way. Of course, not everyone is allowed to see all fields, let alone edit them. The profile permissions module should enforce the proper policies.
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.
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.
You use a VPN to connect your mobile device, for example your laptop, to your server. All traffic should go through this VPN, as you do not trust random networks you may connect to. This works fine, except when you try to connect to your server through its public IP address. As this is also the IP address that is used as the VPN end point, traffic to it does not go through the VPN but is routed, unencrypted, through the untrusted network.
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).
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.
You have a laptop or other mobile device running Debian. You have your own Sendmail server, also running Debian. You want to send email from your laptop, but your Sendmail server does not accept your emails if you are not on your local network.
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.
