Archive for June, 2008

German zip codes

Monday, June 30th, 2008

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This is based on Ben Fry’s zipdecode and PLZ.tab from OpenGeoDB. I used a simple script to preprocess the data.

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If the Java Applet doesn’t work, try this page. Klick into the applet and tipe a few numbers, e.g. “42″

FreeBSD Jails and Utility computing

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Using the FreeBSD Jail mechanism, I’m slowly getting to a minimal Admin intervention Server setup:

host# ezjail-admin create -f djangoserver extranet a.b.c.6
host# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ezjail.sh start extranet
workstation# ssh a.b.c.6
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008

This is a preconfigured virtual machine (jail) for running Django applications.
Avoid manual configuration!
[md@extranet ~]$ su
extranet# cd /usr/local/www
extranet# svn co https://example.com/.../projects/extranet/trunk extranet
extranet# ln -s /usr/local/www/extranet /usr/local/www/djangoprojectdir
extranet# sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start

Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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