Automatic WordPress installation

Here’s a quick trick that allows automatic installation of WordPress on an HTTP server.

The normal process is: browse to wordpress.com, grab the archive locally, upload to your server, unzip and run the installer. Sometimes, you even have to unzip locally and then upload the whole sets of files to the server.

The automatic process can be done using Instant Install.
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Boot Mac mini G4 from USB

Don’t know why but my Tiger’s DVD won’t load in my Mac mini PowerPC G4… Hopefully, I can read it from another DVD drive, namely my MacBook Pro’s one. Here’s how I booted the mini from a USB key to reinstall Mac OS X.
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Install OpenBSD from USB stick

Today, I feel like testing OpenBSD again. I want to see how it works as a workstation. So I’m gonna run a 4.9 (snapshot) on a Asus EeePC 901.

AFAIK, OpenBSD doesn’t provide official bootable USB stuff. I tried burning the various iso files on the USB stick but it wouldn’t boot… surprise! Then I tried using unetbootin which, of course, doesn’t support OpenBSD… Success came using a virtualisation software to install a minimal OpenBSD system on the USB stick and (re)run the install from there.
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Back to the sea ; the OpenBSD installation, episode II

OpenBSD is really easy to install.
It’s not shinning, but it asks for a few questions and only takes a couple of minutes to get a working system.

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