Linux System Admins Blog

I have already mentioned that google will start penalizing your site in search if it is not fast enough. I have recently given a presentation at Drupal Con about Drupal performance and page speed. Below is a video of our session – its currently the fifth most watched session from the conference according to archive.org. [...]

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Debian Etch has been discontinued for a while now, and in an ideal world everyone has upgraded to lenny a long time ago. Still, this is not always possible and there are some systems out there that are still running etch, some for a good reason, some just because their admins are lazy . Recently [...]

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Here is a quick tip on how to remove a list of files. Let’s say you have the list of files inside a file called files_to_remove. Usually I would do something like this: LIST=`cat files_to_remove` and then ls -al $LIST just to check what is in the list and if it looks good. And finally: [...]

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