Submitted by Lew on Sun, 01/24/2010 - 18:57
That was cheery!
Yesterday, one of my HDs started spewing errors, and took my server's /home directory down. That wouldn't have been too bad if I had followed my own advice and had complete backups. I could have installed a new drive, and restored everything from backups. But, no, I hadn't been smart; I had no backups for the /home directory.
Submitted by Lew on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 18:06
"A cat has three names ..." goes a poem/song from Cats, and so do systems on a network. A system has a proper name such as NTOABYM05 or MVSQA100, and a common name, such as nancy or sluggo. Finally, a system has a secret name, like 05:09:3f:57:60:22 or 198.162.27.33.
Submitted by Lew on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 18:33
A little while ago, I observed that Zellers was selling the Fidelity VPC, an inexpensive Linux-based netbook. Well, I saw it in action over Christmas, and I have to say that I was not impressed.
Submitted by Lew on Mon, 12/21/2009 - 13:37
That's it. The last website has been moved to Drupal 6.
This morning, I took a mysqldump backup of the last backlevel public site (migrated to Drupal 5, yesterday), and created a new "internal" site from it. Using the same magic incantations as before (log on, disable modules, change httpd vhosts, update.php, enable modules), I managed to get this last site running properly on Drupal 6, internally.
Submitted by Lew on Sun, 12/20/2009 - 15:07
With my Drupal 6 installation upgraded to the latest patch level, I've decided to make an effort and move the last Drupal 4 site up to Drupal 6 by Christmas. As I commented before, this isn't an easy task, as the site has a fair amount of content that I don't want to lose, and uses features that I don't want to disable. And I can't move directly to Drupal 6; I have to transition through Drupal 5 first.
The move will occur in two parts:
- move the site from Drupal 4 to Drupal 5, and get most of the bugs out there, and
Submitted by Lew on Fri, 12/18/2009 - 15:32
Zellers is selling a Linux-based Netbook for Christmas. The "Very Personal Computer" from Fidelity Electronics goes for $150 CAD.
It features
- 2 USB ports,
- a single SD/SDHC card slot,
- integrated microphone and speaker,
- 10/100 wired Ethernet port,
- Wifi networking,
- a 7" LCD/TFT screen @ 800 x 480 resolution,
- lithium battery rated for 2 hours continuous use, and an AC adaptor,
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