To install matplotlib on OS X Lion, the following tutorial did the trick for me.

Today I wanted to polish up my backup scripts by automatically updating the installed ports and sending me a mail in case one of the installed packages is older than its port (FYI: this is what pkg_version -v is for). My first approach was to have something like this in a single python script:

“Seriously? Again?” - “Hell yea, it was about time …”.

The Ubuntu Server distribution that has been running this server broke … again. Only a couple of months after I did a clean install, I dared to upgrade the system from 11.04 to 11.10, or at least I tried …