MediaWiki now accepts out of the box RDFa and Microdata semantic markup

Since MediaWiki 1.16, the software has supported — as an option — RDFa and Microdata HTML semantic attributes. This commit, integrated to the next release on MediaWiki, 1.27, will embrace more the semantic Web making these attributes always available. If you wish to use it today, this is already available in our Git repository. This also simplify […]

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Let’s encrypt lifts quota by domain for renewal

There is currently a limitation of how many certificates you can register per week: a quota of 5 per domain per week. The same limitation applied for renewal, which would have forced to maintain a schedule. This is not the case anymore: if a certificate has already been generated for a specific  FQDN, you can renew […]

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Follow-up: a BASH script to split a MySQL dump by database

In this post, we’ve seen how to split a large MySQL dump by database. I’ve been asked a script to automate the process. Here you are. Note: On FreeBSD, replace AWK=awk by AWK=gawk and install lang/gawk port, so we can use GNU awk.

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Split a large SQL dump by database

You created a MySQL backup of a large server installation with dozens of databases and wish to get the schema and data for one of them. You now have to deal with a file of hundreds of MB in a text editor. How convenient. Split a dump into several files You can quickly split this […]

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Chromebook: run a SSH server on Chrome OS

In this post, we’ll cover how to run a SSH server directly on Chrome OS (ie not into a Crouton chroot). One of the first things I do on any machine (FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X or Windows) is to install, run and configure the SSH server. It’s always convenient to be able to scp from […]

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December 2014 links

Some links of stuff I appreciated this month. Links to French content are in a separate post. You can also take the time machine to November 2014. AI What if instead to understand how the brain works, we copy the neural connections as is? This is what the OpenWorm project tries to do with C. […]

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November 2014 links

Some links of stuff I appreciated this month. Links to French content are in a separate post. You can also take the time machine to October 2014. November is the Philae landing on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko month and the ESA photo release under CC-BY-SA (one of them here) month. Mainly DevOps links in this post, a […]

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