Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2013!

Also this year the Debian [http://www.debian.org/about/] project was present at Chemnitzer Linuxtage [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/], this time right next the debianforum.de [http://debianforum.de] booth. The booth folks arriving on Friday organized a flashmob at Expitas [http://espitas.de] after booth setup. Unfortunately…

Airprint support broken in Debian wheezy?

Some of our customers are using central CUPS [http://www.cups.org/] systems for managing their printer infrastructure. In the last years the demand for support printing (called Airprint [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPrint]) from mobile apple products increased. This worked well for us on Debian [http://www.debian.…

Learning Git Branching

If you are comming from an old SCM like subversion, you may have difficulties to internalize the new workflow. Peter Cottle [http://petermcottle.com/] created Learn Git Branching [http://pcottle.github.com/learnGitBranching/] which is really nice.…

Server Management

Server management on daily basis in a growing environment could be a challenge. Most of the tasks is here done with ClusterSSH [http://clusterssh.sf.net] in help with a homebrew mail notification [http://ftp.cyconet.org/debian/archive/restricted/config-apt-update]. Unfortunately this workflow is not scaling well for 200+…

Tracking coffee consumption

Are you consuming a way too much coffee and have reached the junkie level like me? Maybe coffeestats.org [http://coffeestats.org] can help out and visualize your coffee usage.…

Search picture(s)

Today we where packing back our holiday decorations into boxes. We also had a music box to put away. Do you see the defect in the picture? ;) No? Okay ... some years ago my oldest daughter broke it into some pieces and a friend of us (Hi muempf! ;) did glue all…

Creative destruction

Today short before ending business hours I was noticed that there is a problem with a server system (domU). Login with unprivileged user was possible but using "su" didn't worked, also login in as root via privkey failed. Fortunately I was able to connect via xen console and login via…