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Installing Ubuntu Studio from USB key

Submitted by Warren on Sun, 2011/02/20 - 06:11

These are the steps I followed to install Ubuntu Studio 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Alternate Install DVD iso image through USB key. The reference I used for these steps is here.

  1. I used a 4GB usb key formatted with the FAT filesystem.
  2. Download and run Unetbootin
  3. Using Unetbootin install a Ubuntu 10.10-HdMedia image onto the usb key.
  4. Copy the iso "ubuntustudio-10.10-alternate-i386.iso" onto the same usb key.

Remove "Author" and "Date" from Drupal Blog Posts.

Submitted by Warren on Sun, 2011/01/02 - 04:01

Recently I undertook to remove the "Author" and "Date" line from Blog entries for a Drupal 6 site. I ended up taking the path of a Google search to learn more about this and came up with these search results.

  1. Snipplr - Remove Usernames Blog Link from Drupal Blog Posts
  2. Controlling what link items goes in the $links variable on node.tpl.php

Theming Drupal with Zen

Submitted by Warren on Sun, 2008/10/26 - 05:06

"Zen is the ultimate starting theme for Drupal." At least that is the claim made by the Zen Project. One of the highlighted points made by the Zen Project is their fantastic online documentation.

Recovering from an interrupted rdiff-backup

Submitted by Warren on Tue, 2008/10/21 - 09:38

I use rdiff-backup a bit to script nightly backups for the servers I set up. Good tool that does its job well… Except, when the backup has been interrupted mid-way. Across networks this happens occasionally and for me when it does happen rdiff-backup will not run normally again without administrator intervention.

Recovery steps in detail

I'm using rdiff-backup 1.1.5 and Python 2.4.4. The error I get looks like this

Exception '' raised of class 'exceptions.AssertionError':
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