In this post we’ll install CFEngine on a Debian system. Debian make is really simple to install any packages, so let’s follow the “standard” package installation procedure (I’ll assume that apt is correctly setup on your system ! If you have troubles with it, let me know, I’ll write a post on this topic).

CFEngine is a configuration management engine. I’m going to write a series of short posts as I’m going to use CFEngine in a current project. Let’s start with a short description of CFEngine purpose and main features.

For those of you who are not familiar with my blog, my favorite language is Perl. “Programming Perl” (aka “the Camel Book”) is probably the most used / most useful reference book about this Perl.

Wow, this was a big work : I moved to a new WordPress theme with 3 columns which is, I hope, much more readable.

I quite enjoy the result, and I learnt a bit about AdSense, SEO, CSS and WordPress on the way so all in all, I would say this was worth all the efforts and the time I’ve put in this.

Let me know what you think about the new theme, and if you see more ways to improve it !

Here are the most important things to remember.

Linux.com runs a good introduction to spamd, the spam fighting daemon which ships by default with OpenBSD.

How can I make my X11 display go to another machine ?

Oh well, something everyone should know, but sometimes you have surprises !

Instructions follow …

Tan Tan Noodles’s wordpress reports plugin has just been updated as announced on the plugin’s homepage :

Bug Fixes: WordPress Reports (0.81) : tan tan noodles – msg free since 2005
A bug fix release for the WordPress Reports plugin is now available for download.

If you are using WordPress+Google Analytics+FeedBurner then this plugin is a must : it will let you get the main reports of both statistics tools directly from you WordPress admin interface.

In case you read this blog only through the RSS feeds, you might not have noticed the few new pages on the left hand menu bar. Those pages are dynamically generated by pulling the RSS feed of my del.icio.us bookmarks for specific tag combinations (like wordpress+plugin+must).

Feel free to have a look from time to time, to check for modifications !

For now, you’ll find :

• a book list
• a list of my most used Firefox plugins
• a list of y favorite free (like beer) softwares
• and my favorite wordpress plugins

And in case you wonder, those pages are generated thanks to the wonderful inlineRSS wordpress plugin, which makes pulling RSS feeds from your blog damn easy.

WordPress is a great blogging platform, which will let you easily publish your blog. Now, considering the amount of time you’ll probably spend writing contents, you might want to get money from it (all work deserves money, right ? 😉 ).

I’ll show you how to do this easily, by using the advertisement program of Google : AdSense.

A little follow up on yesterday article about scripting Twitter with cURL: the solution was working, but somehow inconvenient. Not practical to have to go and fetch the user id every time you want to send a direct message !

This time, I scripted Twitter direct message with Perl and LWP (libwww-perl), for a much more convenient solution. I designed it to be used like a sort of universal paging service.