This seems to be a interesting way for backing up your WordPress site: WordPress Backup to Dropbox. For a few details check the tutorial “How to Automatically Backup Your WordPress Site to Dropbox“. I’ve not checked it by myself, but it looks usable.
Never forget to backup!
A few days WordPress 3.0 called “Thelonious” has been released. I’ve used the automatic update feature for two blog installations without problems.
For security reasons you should add four new keys to your wp-config.php in the root directory of your WordPress installation. The easiest way to generate the keys is to use the key generator from wordpress.org. Copy the generated keys to your wp-config.php and finally log in again to wp-admin. As a result you will recognize the update wp-admin skin.
You have purchased a new camera and the RAW or NEF pictures are not opened in Adobe Photoshop or Bridge CS4?
This is the case when you have e.g. a Canon 5D Mark II or Nikon D3S. What helps is a upgrade of Adobe Camera Raw. This can be done either manual using the download from Adobe or using the upgrade function in Photoshop (Help->Upgrades).
The update from Photoshop version 11.0 to 11.0.1 should also be done, a few stability issues should be fixed.
CS3 users will have a problem because Adobe Camera Raw is no longer developed for CS3. If you really want to use RAW/NEF then a upgrade to CS4 seems to be needed.
Finally after 2 years running Debian “Etech” 4.0 the new version Debian 5.0 codename “Lenny” has been released. The new release is dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, a Debian Developer who dies on December 26th, 2008 in a tragic car accident. Read more information about “Lenny” on the Debian homepage.
As you know only the early bird catches the worm, I immediately decided to update one server to Lenny. Sure, sometimes the worm isn’t delicious but if you are dealing with IT stuff you will know this kind of bad tasting worms already.
Okay the good news are: The worm wasn’t bad tasting in this case. Find my upgrade report below.
Upgrade Procedure
First I started with:
apt-get update
And received the error message:
There are no public key available for the following key IDs: 4D270D06F42584E6
Which means we need to get a new public key:
gpg --recv-key --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net 4D270D06F42584E6
gpg --export 4D270D06F42584E6 | apt-key add -
or optionally with (not tested):
apt-get install debian-archive-keyring
Fine, next apt-get update was done again and several packages have been updated. It was prompted if a new /etc/mysql/my.cnf should be installed or my old one should be kept. I decided to keep my old one.
Afterwards I upgraded the distribution with apt-get dist-upgrade and many packages have been downloaded and installed.
For several config files it is again prompted if the old one should be kept or overwritten. I decided to backup to old configuration files and overwrite them with the new ones from the current distribution. I wanted to make sure that I don’t run into conflicts. Using this way the upgrade is performed very quick.
In the next step I adapted all my changes from backuped config files into the new ones. In my case mainly the Apache2 and MySQL configurations.
Apache2
After doing this Apache2 started with the message “NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts” and no one of my virtual hosts was recognized. I resolved this issue by changing the file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default and /etc/apache2/ports.conf. Within both files I’ve changed declarations “*:80″ to “*”:
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
<VirtualHost *>
/etc/apache2/ports.conf
NameVirtualHost *
Note that all your virtual host configurations also have to be defined with “<VirtualHost * >”.
APT
To receive the updates for “Lenny” edit the file /etc/apt/sources.conf and change the line:
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
to
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
Grub
One special thing on my server here (Strato root server) is the Grub configuration. The server is configured with SATA RAID 1, therefore partitions are mounted on /dev/md0 and /dev/md1. After every kernel update I manually change the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Here I copy the two parts for the latest running kernel and simply adjust the kernel versions:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel (2.6.26-1-686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/md1 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS 0,57600
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel (2.6.26-1-686, recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/md1 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS 0,57600 single
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
savedefault
boot
Finally reboot and your issue will show “Debian GNU/Linux 5.0″.
Apple has released a new version for the iPhone firmware. Version 2.2.1 is not a major update, only a few things seem improved:
Not so much news. Updated runs for me without any problems.
Users with unlock and/or jailbreak should inform themselves before updating, usually the jailbreak will no longer work after the update until there is a new jailbreak available.