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+Revive this Blog
+##################################
+:date: 2013-02-17 14:26
+:tags: openssh, dropbear
+
+2 years ago i lost this blog in an unexpected VPS shutdown and of course i had
+no backups (duh!) and had not used any kind of version management.  
+Thanks to archive.org at least the content of the blog left intact. I guess
+that's why it is sometimes called **'The WaybackUp Machine'**.
+
+My old blog can be found at
+https://web.archive.org/web/20121213091551/http://euer.krebsco.de/ and  
+even the rss feed is intact. 
+
+
+The old blog was created using **octopress**, a static site generator written in
+ruby. Because the markdown files were essentially lost i thought it is time to
+try out something new.  
+I chose **pelican**, a static site generator written in python because in a
+worst-case scenario i could fix the python code. I will also test out
+reStructured Text instead of Markdown.
+
+Installation of pelican
+-----------------------
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    #?/bin/sh
+    virtualenv my-blog
+    cd my-blog
+    . bin/activate
+    pip install pelican
+    pelican-quickstart
+      ...
+
+Importing RSS
+-------------
+Pelican supports importing old rss feeds.
+I tried importing the archive.org rss feed but besides the date and title of
+the post and the date the markup was pretty much broken, the code with line
+numbering resulted in a broken <pre>-table. This happens for rst and markdown
+output.
+
+In addition the importer uses pandoc, a haskell markup transformer which is
+with all dependencies like 100mb in size.
+
+For the records here is what was needed:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    #? /bin/sh
+    . bin/activate
+    yaourt -Sy aur/pandoc-static
+    pelican-import --feed https://web.archive.org/web/20120709004415/http://euer.krebsco.de/atom.xml -o content/posts
+    # cleanup all the posts in content/posts
+
+Configure pelican 
+-----------------
+Pelican needs to be configured in ``pelicanconf.py``:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+    
+    AUTHOR = 'makefu'
+    SITENAME = 'only code is pure'
+    # rss feed to be built
+    FEED_ALL_ATOM = 'feeds/all.atom.xml'
+    # for RSS in the headline
+    MENUITEMS = (( 'RSS', '/feeds/all.atom.xml'),)
+
+    # add robots.txt
+    STATIC_PATHS = [ 'extra/robots.txt', ]
+    EXTRA_PATH_METADATA = { 'extra/robots.txt': {'path': 'robots.txt'}, }
+    
+    # twitter link
+    SOCIAL = (('@makefoo', 'http://twitter.com/makefoo') ,)
+    # add disqus comments
+    DISQUS_SITENAME = 'euer'
+    # all the other lines of config
+
+
+Configure themes
+----------------
+Themes need to be retrieved separately.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+   
+    #? /bin/sh
+    # omit --recursive for a subset, gum is in the core
+    git clone --recursive https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-themes themes
+
+    # add the theme line to pelicanconf
+    echo 'THEME="themes/gum"' >> pelicanconf.py