Simon Wheatley

Tag: sysadmin

  • Taking stock

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    I have a client with a lot lot lot lot of WordPress sites, and I’m helping them craft a strategy for dealing with WordPress throughout their business. One thing we wanted to do was to take stock of all the plugins they have installed on all their sites, work out how many are in common,…

  • Specify the Finder icon with Avahi

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    Yesterday, I blogged about my various issues setting up Apple Filesharing on the Debian virtual server I’ve got running in Parallels. As of OS X 10.5, Leopard, the Finder has a shared area which shows the machines it’s discovered via Bonjour so you can easily connect to them. Today I got bored of having the…

  • Problems mounting a Debian drive over AFP

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    It took me ages to find the answer to this, so I figured I’d post the answer for posterity; hopefully between us, Google and I can help the next person avoid that hassle. I’ve created a Debian virtual server in Parallels for some development work. To ease the pain of mounting drives, I’ve configured AFP…