Since I upgraded my living situation a few weeks ago (moved into a new house share with 2 friends) I’ve been without an internet connection. We ended up having to wait 2 weeks for BT to “install” our phone line (in quotes since it was physically already there), then around 10 days for the ISP [...]
Also tagged Rants, Real LifeAn article in my RSS reader caught my eye today. elharo writes:
The Internet is 30 today. Exactly 30 years ago today on November 22, 1977 the first three networks were connected to become the Internet
Think how far we’ve come…
Recently I found a solution to a problem which has been nagging me for a while (ever since I switched to IMAP email actually). The problem? Synchronizing calendars and contact between my desktop and laptop PCs.
The solution I found is ScheduleWorld, a free synchronization service which allows you to share calendars, contacts, tasks and [...]
Yesterday one of the sites hosted on my server hit the digg front page. It wasn’t one of my posts, but one from a good friend (nice one Jonny!). Anyway, the massive surge in traffic caused some issues…
Also tagged SysadminThis evening I’ve been messing around with Drupal, an open source content management system (CMS). I installed the package with portage (a one line emerge), created a database, then the Drupal installer did the rest of the work. Within 2 minutes I had a working site. I’m impressed. I tried out Joomla late last year [...]
Also tagged Software, SysadminI finally got around to fixing my wiki today. I broke it a while ago while upgrading mediawiki and I hadn’t found the time to sort it out until now. I restored the database from a backup, installed mediawiki 1.6.9 from scratch, then upgraded to 1.8.3. Successfully this time. Woo yeah for fixing things.
Also tagged General, Sysadmin