I was excited more effort going into Drupal command line tools. In the past I’ve had to develop my own tools for deployment and updating Drupal on the command line. Drupal currently has limited tools for the command line in versions 5 and 6. I’m not sure about 7, hopefully it will be better. This Acquia blog post offers a collection of scripts to help deploy and maintain Drupal sites as well as some other features. Thanks Acquia!

I ran into a problem with one of my python scripts the other day and noticed from the Apache logs that it was causing a segfault somewhere. This is the first time I have had to deal with a segfault in a web based application so I looked around for a debugging solution. I found that mod_python has has a flag that will trigger Apache to start a console running PDB. In order to get this working, “PythonEnablePdb On” needs to be added to the Apache config for the site running the Mod_python script and Apache needs to be ran with the following command.

apache2ctl -DONE_PROCESS


I have been wanting to try out using a virtual install of windows on my Linux install. I saw that innotek offered VirtualBox as an open source solution and decided to try it out. VirtualBox is offered for various platforms and offers binary files for many flavors of Linux. I first added the entries into my /etc/apt/sources.list . sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list . and added in the lines at the bottom .

I recently decided to give kde a try on my Ubuntu install on my desktop box. I installed KDE with:
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sudo aptitude install kde
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