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WordPress Migration: Getting all the authors

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This is the fifth in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I imported the authors from my website into the WordPress database. This step was important to me because I am not the only contributor to The FreeBSD Diary. The WordPress Structure First, let’s look at the WordPress structure to see what is available to us. WordPress uses MySQL as a database. Although […]

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WordPress Migration: The import

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This is the fourth in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I exported my existing website into an XML file, which I then imported into WordPress. All this was possible because of the preparations previously described. I was fortunate in that my website already had an RSS feed. It did not contain everything needed to do an import, but it did represent a

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Idea from Kris Moore – PC-BSD

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I’m sitting in the The Warden – FreeBSD and Linux Jail Management talk at EuroBSDCon 2012. He has mentioned two things, so far, that give me ideas. Evil ideas. Put each jail in a different ZFS data set – this may be useful for my jails running Bacula regression testing Schedule cron jobs to do snapshots on a regular basis – useful for snapshots, which I’m not really using at all And he’s

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Packet loss much better now

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Things are looking better now: bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 19:43:16 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 253 5.6 7.3 3.2 143.0 15.6 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 252 4.9 5.1 3.0 36.2 4.1 3. so-3-1-0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 252 5.4 11.8 3.0 136.5 23.2 4. so-0-2-0-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 252 62.9 21.4 5.5 130.4 24.8 xe-0-1-0-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net xe-1-1-8-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net xe-1-0-4-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 5. so-7-2-0-0.NWRK-CORE-RTR2.verizon-gni.net

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Packet loss within the Verizon network

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Here’s packet loss to one of the Verizon DNS servers: My traceroute [v0.82] bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 12:58:53 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net 10.7% 140 4.3 5.2 3.2 42.2 3.8 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net 8.6% 140 3.2 5.4 3.1 30.5 3.7 3. so-9-0-0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net 4.3% 140 5.9 11.3 3.2 89.0 14.6 4. so-7-1-0-0.PHIL-CORE-RTR1.verizon-gni.net 7.9% 140 3.7 5.8

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Packet loss varies according to direction

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This is interesting. From my gateway to one of my servers, the packet loss is pretty big: bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 12:15:36 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni 3.4% 119 4.8 6.1 3.2 60.1 7.4 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-g 8.4% 119 5.5 5.6 3.1 33.0 4.4 3. 130.81.199.18 4.2% 119 5.6 16.6 3.0 228.0 33.6 4. 0.xe-7-1-0.BR1.IAD8.ALTER.NET

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Lots of packet loss

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This is not nice: [dan@bast:~] $ netstat -nr | tat -nr | grep default default 98.114.243.1 UGS 27 301523519 fxp0 default 2001:470:1f06:b80::1 UGS gif0 [dan@bast:~] $ ping -c 10 google.com PING google.com (74.125.228.36): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=11.680 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=12.689 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=2 ttl=253 time=11.089 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=4 ttl=253 time=12.337 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=5

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WordPress Migration: stripping out headers/footers, etc

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This is the third in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I removed non-core material from the website before I imported it. This is vital because WordPress adds its own headers and footers, which my website already contains. The first step is to remove all that cruft before creating the input file for the RSS Importer (first used in the previous post). The

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WordPress Migration: : The first attempts

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This is the second in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about why I decided to go with RSS-Importer and outline the first steps I took to get my posts into WordPress. These steps did not complete the migration. Rather, they were a proof of concept which led to other tasks to import yet more data into WordPress. In these posts, I will use the

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