Here is my new zen theme based on drupal 7 - to which I upgraded my old site. The theme has been completely redesigned towards good readability. Its design is encouraged by applications like Instapaper, Read it Later or browser extensions like Safari’s Reader or Chrome’s iReader.

You might have noticed, I made this site a bit cleaner and added the possibility for you to support nesono.com a bit by flattr. The search field is now in the header and the right sidebar is completely gone. Just in case you’ve been searching for it… ;)

Cheers, iss

As I always forget the exact syntax and am too chicken-hearted to fool around, I note down the command to add one’s public key to the authorized keys on the remote machine (to login using pub/private key pair only) here. Use the following command (id_rsa.pub might be id_dsa.pub on your site).

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@site.com "cat - >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

That’s it,
iss

After being somewhat unhappy with the Apple Terminal application since the very beginning, I found a very nice alternative in iTerm2! Everything seems to work fine from tabbing, splitting horizontally and vertically, cursor observation to fancy growl support.

If you experience the same errors like me:

Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: shell command failed

Then, you might have the wrong gcc active. You can use my script to switch your gcc back to the system’s standard, which is gcc-4.2 in my case.

Cheers,
iss

Today I read about an DAViCal update, which is supposed to support the CardDav protocol, the native Apple Address Book protocol. I started by creating an “Addressbook Principal” by Hand using the DAViCal web interface, as also explained in the DAViCal Wiki and set its name to ‘contacts’. The point is, that I can add a contact either on my phone or desktop and it syncs automatically. No more need to synchronize devices by hand!

From time to time, my software RAID 1 behaves ugly. After sleep periods for instance, it ejects and is no longer in sync. Today, I read an article from Apple, which seems to address my problem. They are using diskutil on the command line and it seems to provide more information about the RAID’s status than the Disk Utility GUI. It presents information like this.

The update includes the deactivation of the virus scanner - as it does not run on my hardy machine yet and some fixed configuration files, which kept the daemon from doing something at all. Please take a look at the Mailserver Documentation and check the blog!

Cheers, iss

Today I found the issue of a problem, I struggled for quite a while! With my Mac logging into my server and running some GNU Screen session on it, I had problems with backspace. It was either interpreted as delete, or not interpreted at all. Setting the Preferences of Mac’s Terminal to Ctrl-H sending was not the solution either, as this disabled all special characters (using option-u for example). Furthermore, I noticed several crashes of my ssh sessions.

I need to migrate my local svn repository to sourceforge an therefore checked the web for such experiences once again. Recently, I found this site, which has a neat trick for avoiding all these padding revisions from svndumpfilter. But let’s keep it chronological. Here are the steps I took: