Julian Kessel's Blog

Just a quick note on exporting a user’s Calendar from Horde 4. Unlike every site I stumbled upon searching for this solution suggests, the right way to accomplish it is a bit hidden: https://your_horde_install/kronolith/#calendar => left Sidebar “My Calendars” => triangle pointing right => popup’s tabbar => “Export” Tab

What I learned from the situation of doing a admittedly huge backup over FTP: do NOT use lftp (v 3.1.3 at least) for backing up large sites (≈28M files) in my case My experience with it was very bad: after having about 90% of the data transferred over multiple days, lftp’s CPU usage went to [...]

I’m really upset about the situation that you result in when someone installed virtualmin on a system later administered by you. I just want to state that at the latest when you get that administration is a job for which you should have a decent knowledge of you systems, you will regret having to use [...]

About one week ago, AL released a new verion of BackupPC via the official repos, but w/o mentioning there were massive cfg changes which lead me into an empty webfrontent not knowing what happened. Just to document, these are the points you have to consider: You can see they also changed the cfg dir to [...]

If you want to get WordPress to support HTTPS without any unencrypted content being transferred to the client and included from the browser, you have to force WordPress to change the siteUrl depening on the request schema which comes from the client. The basis for my small addition below is this post: https://prosauce.org/blog/2010/08/enable-complete-support-for-ssl-on-wordpress/ It explains [...]

I'll keep it short: Export your AB via evolution, import it into TB, export it as csv, run the following script: awk -F"," ‘{printf("%s,%s,%s %s,", $1,$2,$1,$2); for(i=4;i<36;i++) printf("%s,",$i); printf("\n")}’ in.csv > out.csv import the new csv into TB. You can also shorten this way via modding my one-liner and directly transforming evolution's output (it just [...]

I has been a rather long time searching for a decent plotter application for linux. Though as a gnome user I usually defer kde apps because of their deps, but this time I found no alternative available which provided all stuff kmplot features. Besides all cool features which can be discovered by clicking around in [...]

While testing several states (gpt,mbr,formatted,unformatted) I ran over a couple of weird errors including 1429 and a message that complained about that other programs would hold a write lock on the fs. The final solution was the option in Vbox to turn on the USB 2.0 EHCI controller which needs the extension pack installed. On [...]

I wondered about how to clear a line in a shellscript which uses \r to do a carriage return and reuse the same line to output some text: While the CR does not clear the contents of the line, you have to do that yourself: echo -ne "\033[2K\r"`echo $i | awk '{$1=""; print $0}'` I [...]

Pithos is a native pandora client for linux which uses the pianobar library. Users with their endpoint outside of the US have the common problems using pandora with tunnels and so on. If you have a ssh connection to somewhere in a allowed country and being allowed to create port forwardings, this is for you: [...]