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He never grew up, but he never stopped growing

Liraz Siri - Sun, 2015/10/04 - 17:26

He never grew up, but he never stopped growing.

- Arthur C. Clarke (when asked what he wanted written on his tombstone)

In retrospect, I tend to underestimate a lot of things. I underestimate challenges. I underestimate my own limits. I underestimate authority. I routinely underestimate how difficult something is going to be to accomplish.

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Git tip: how to merge multiple projects into one big repository

Liraz Siri - Sun, 2015/10/04 - 17:26 - 2 comments

A while back I decided it would be a good idea to combine a loose collection of related Git repositories into one big Git repository.

The rational for this was that I noticed that often the same logical change had to be broken up into multiple commits across these previously separate repositories in a way that made it difficult to track which changes were part of the same change. In other words it artificially fragmented the commits and made revisions harder to track.

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Pride and prejudice: falling in love with your own bad ideas

Liraz Siri - Sun, 2015/10/04 - 17:26

Opinion, often hasty, can incline to the wrong side, and then affection for one's own opinion binds, confines the mind

- The Divine Comedy

Sometimes I have bad ideas. Happens to the best of us. If I try to avoid them my mind freezes up. So I just let the ideas flow. No filters. Sure, most of them are crap, but every once in a while a gem of a good idea passes through.

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v14.0 stable release - Massive Community Effort!

Jeremy Davis - Thu, 2015/09/17 - 10:44 - 30 comments

Drum roll please... May I proudly introduce: The TurnKey Linux v14.0 release!

turnkey 14.0 banner

A long time coming...

Wow is it mid September already!? What has happened to the year?!

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Marching towards v14.0 RC2

Jeremy Davis - Tue, 2015/06/23 - 14:55 - 12 comments

Update: v14.0 stable is available in all build types: OVA & VMDK, Proxmox, OpenNode & Docker (Proxmox build is somewhat generic LXC/OpenVZ container) and Xen & OpenStack.

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How to build a TurnKey appliance ISO from source

Jeremy Davis - Thu, 2015/05/28 - 16:49 - 2 comments

[UPDATE:] This blog post has been converted to a Doc page and has had some updates since this post was published.

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Insights on what makes me productive

Liraz Siri - Mon, 2015/05/25 - 08:45

A few insights I've had with regards to what makes me productive:

  1. satisfying "meaty" workplans: I tend to be much more productive if I something on my table I can really sink my teeth into. The best example is an interesting development project with the high-level design sketched up and a road-map with deliverable testable milestones for me to bite through one mouthful at a time.

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Securing Firefox, Chrome and Thunderbird against client-side attacks

Liraz Siri - Mon, 2015/05/18 - 08:45 - 1 comments

Imagine someone half-competent wants to hack into your computer. They want to read your e-mail, steal your bitcoins, transfer funds via your PayPal account, etc.

You're behind a firewall (or more commonly a NAT router) and you don't have any open ports / servers running. So you're safe right?

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TurnKey v14.0 RC1 is LIVE! (aka we need YOU!)

Jeremy Davis - Tue, 2015/05/12 - 13:33 - 41 comments

Update: v14.0 stable is available in all build types: OVA & VMDK, Proxmox, OpenNode & Docker (Proxmox build is somewhat generic LXC/OpenVZ container) and Xen & OpenStack.

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How to upgrade a Debian package to a newer upstream version

Liraz Siri - Mon, 2015/05/11 - 08:05

Duplicity issued a new stable version with a few bugfixes. I didn't want to wait for the Debian sid package to update so I updated it myself.

This was very simple as the Debian duplicity package uses dpatch to manage all the patches to the original source code. The patches go to debian/patches.

When the package is built debian/rules applies these patches:

dpatch apply-all

Creating a new dpatch is also automated::

# 1. create a new patch: invokes a new shell. Edit files and exit # when you're done dpatch-edit-patch <patch_name>

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