Find them und patch them…
I want to start this post by pointing out that the title is like something you’d find in a classic German war movie. Except this time, it’s about servers. Anyway, I got this email from a reader: Hi Linux Guy,…
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How to in-place upgrade from Opensuse 13.1 to 13.2…
Following along in my line of “Readers Digest” versions of the official Opensuse upgrades procedures (here are a couple of my past ones: 11.1, 11.2, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1), here’s the latest for upgrading in-place from 13.1 to 13.2…
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Microsoft and bash – Peanut Butter and Chocolate…
It looks like things are finally starting to go my way. Running bash on Windows 10… As Yakov Smirnoff says, “What a country!” http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx 😉
Microsoft goes Linux… Again…
Microsoft has been becoming more and more Linux-friendly these days. Even more than usual. For someone that’s been around the ‘biz as long as me, this is something I couldn’t have imagined 10 years ago. Sure, I have seen Microsoft…
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How to in-place upgrade from Opensuse 12.3 to 13.1…
Following along in my line of “Readers Digest” versions of the official Opensuse upgrades procedures (here are a couple of my past ones: 11.1, 11.2, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3) , here’s the latest for upgrading in-place from 12.3 to 13.1 (just…
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Easy way to update to Drupal 7.32…
The newly-announced vulnerability to Drupal versions earlier than 7.32 is pretty ugly. Here’s all the detail you need about the problem: https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005 …and while there’s a small patch described in the info, it isn’t that hard to just do the…
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Converting a VMware Linux Guest to Hyper-V…
If there were enough room, the full title for this article would actually be something more like, “Converting a Suse SLES or Opensuse Linux machine from either VMware Workstation or ESXi or to Hyper-V, even when you don’t have the…
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How to block individual pages from Drupal search results…
Imagine for a moment that you are an administrator of a Drupal-based website. You have a page (or more) that you don’t want visible in your search results, but you don’t want to have gaps where those pages are missing…
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How to in-place upgrade from SLES 11 SP2 to SP3
Following along in my line of “Readers Digest” versions of the official Opensuse upgrades procedures (here are a couple of my past ones: 11.1, 11.2, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2), I decided I’d post one for upgrading in-place from SLES 11 SP2 to…
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How to in-place upgrade from Opensuse 12.2 to 12.3…
Following along in my line of “Readers Digest” versions of the official Opensuse upgrades procedures (here are a couple of my past ones: 11.1, 11.2, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2), here’s the latest for upgrading in-place from 12.2 to 12.3 (just be sure…
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