Ever since I was introduced to the Colombian version of empanadas, I’ve been meaning to try making my own. For some reason this urge struck me again last month and I decided to go for it. This is actually the result from the second time, served with cole slaw and Aji (a sauce make with […]
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WP Pubmed Reflist tests
Got some bug reports this week and am procrastinating other stuff by looking at them. The content of this post will change as I use it to reply to this update Dec 30 8:26PM 2018 [pmid-refs key=redenti_18 wrap=ol showlink=false] 2017 [pmid-refs key=redenti_17 wrap=ol showlink=false] 2016 [pmid-refs key=redenti_16 wrap=ol showlink=false] other [pmid-refs key=27590350 wrap=ul] [pmid-refs key=27879490 wrap=ul]
Godaddy weirdness
This site was offline for a week or so and I couldn’t figure out what was going on. It looks like what happened was that somehow the IP address in the A record was changed to 173.212.241.155, which is somewhere in Europe, instead of the correct address listed for the basic web hosting at Godaddy. Once […]
phpmyadmin hybrid install (apt + manual) on Ubuntu
While migrating our websites to the new Ubuntu box, I set up phpmyadmin using apt-get. But that package is 4.5x while the latest version is 4.8x. Not surprisingly, the Nessus security scan needed to get http and https ports opened through the TAMU firewall detected security exploits that I hope have been fixed in the […]
Claus Wilke is writing a book on Data Visualization
Direct link to the book: https://t.co/dXjW8kaAs6 — Claus Wilke (@ClausWilke) January 23, 2018
Multiple Docker mysql instances on different ports
Found a tutorial gives the following example: $ docker run -d –name=new-mysql -p 6604:3306 -v /storage/docker/mysql-datadir:/var/lib/mysql mysql let’s dissect what we’re passing to docker -d is short for –detach. This runs the container as a daemon in the background –name is the name of the container -p is short for –publish. This is a port […]
Adventures in Linux hosting: Multiple MySQL instances
Reading up on mySQL, I realized that rather than using Docker or VMs, the simplest thing to do is run multiple mySQL instances from the default installation. Because the new machines are Ubuntu Linux, this can be controlled from systemd, the daemon that controls services. There is also documentation on mysql.com about using Docker and […]
Adventures in Linux hosting: Learning to use Docker
In the past, I’ve tried running multiple wikis from a single LAMP stack just using different databases for each one. The problem I ran into was that anything that caused one wiki to lock up mysql caused all of the wikis to lock up at the same time. This could happen during when some bot […]
Adventures in Linux hosting: Basic Mediawiki
The main purpose of the home setup is for testing our mediawiki setup. Our old sites are running old versions of Mediawiki on php5.6. Our custom extensions need to be updated to work with the latest MW and php7 in order to satisfy IT security, and on general principles. Documentation on MediaWiki.org has some tips […]
Adventures in Linux hosting: Misc. setup with apt
After setting up the new home linux box on Xmas eve, I’ve been gradually building it up to be a test bed for things I do at work. The apt package manager makes this pretty easy so far, compared to what I’ve done in the past. emacs Sorry vim folks, I prefer emacs for shell […]