I’ve recently updated some of my tutorials : Stress : CPU test usage Firefox Sync Server : upgrade procedure updated AutoFS : adding FTP (curlfs) Kernel compilation : updated with the latest compression format PuppetDB : updated to work with the latest PuppetDB version SSH : how to change your ssh key passphrase

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I recently crypted all my disk as I changed laptop. At the beginning, I just tested a simple password to see performances changes. I didn’t really see changes for the moment. Once I’ve finished to install and configure my needs, I wanted to have a strong password solution. I decided to use a remembered password concatenated to a generated yubikey password. I updated my LUKS tutorial to explain how to update the password.

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I tested to install Debian as I love it more than Mac OS X for work on my new MacBook Pro 13 retina. Most of the hardware works out of the box on a Debian Jessie (because of the kernel version > 3.8) but is not really optimal. That’s why I’m going to explain how I did to make it better. First of all, you need an EFI manager. I discovered that Refit is not maintained anymore and let place to rEFInd instead.

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I recently read a post (on Korben’s blog) regarding a command called bd to go back to a directory from you current full path. It permits to do more than that ! In fact this is a simple shell script, but it really helps when you’re in a long subfolder list. For example if you reside in ‘/home/user/project/src/org/main/site/utils/file/reader/whatever’ and want to change to ‘/home/user/project/test’, then try ‘bd p`/test. If you want to see all the possibilities, you can look at the main site project.

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I recently needed to install a simple translation tool that helps on follow the translation activity of a project. Pootle answered my requests very well and that’s why I created a documentation to deploy it. It’s written in Python and use Django. Here is my Pootle tutorial.

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