Burn Out
So I’m sick… I stay home to work… I clean my desk (take apart the computers etc.)… I put everything back together… the PC has intermittent fan problems and keeps overheating and shutting down. Then I move to Ruby (the slot loading iMac) and it won’t power up…wiggle the power cable… wiggle the cable some more… wiggle the cable one more time and poof…a flash of smoke and light and no more Ruby.
Well at least I got a new computer out of it! Of course this means reinstalling everything again and since I made the move from 10.3 Server to 10.4 I couldn’t just copy over the files.
So I reconfigured the existing apache, installed Mysql 5.o.13 and PHP 4.3.11( I got the package from Marc Liyanage’s website and it worked slick) and fought the permissions to copy the old databases over (oh, I bought a firewire case for Ruby’s HD… makes it so much easier). It was a matter of shutting down MySql copying the databases, changing the owners to mysql and the permissions to rw. I fought with the sequence quite awhile and kept forgetting about the folder permissions.
Now I’m working on getting Imagemagick up and running. I’ve installed the package but I think I need to reconfigure the plugin again.
I also installed SharePoints which I highly recommend. It mimicks the GUI from OSX Server and allows you to easily set AFP and SMB permissions on non-server versions of OS X. I’ve got the shares set up again and it seems to be working pretty slick.
That’s it for now…still sick
climb on… Walk around
The lovely Leslie and I take a break from climbing on a rainy day and drag photog Zak on a hike around Crescent Falls.
Random Picture of the Day
Leslie working her way up a 5.7 on Abraham Slabs in Nordegg. We did a lot of slab climbing this summer and sort of got into a certain way of doing things. Next summer we’ll have to make an effort to branch out if only so I can learn to fall on real rock : )
Camera Phone
This is an image from Bill’s Camera phone… resized to 480px using a droplet in ImageReady and uploaded via the upload function in WordPress. The next step is to install ImageMagick on the Xserve and try this again with Image Manager plugin on enjoygardening.com…
Rip and Grip 2
Rip and Grip November is over and I placed 5th in the intermediate again. Actaully I tied for 4th but Nemesis Dan Racette beat me in R & G October so he’s ahead…
| Male Advanced | ||||
| Name |
Rip & Grip
|
Big Rocker
|
October
|
Total
|
| Troy Grinde |
12530
|
0
|
10160
|
22690
|
| Jacob Waughtal |
12100
|
0
|
13460
|
25560
|
| Miles Adamson |
11880
|
56
|
12530
|
24410
|
| Dan Racette |
11480
|
204
|
11520
|
23000
|
| Bruce Keith |
11480
|
0
|
11470
|
22950
|
I seem to have a block for problem 17 but I’ll try it again on Wednesday and I bet I get it. Totally pumped and I hated the hold that kept knocking me off.
L on the other hand seems to be on a role and is just rippin’ and grippin’. Zak and I better watch out or we will find ourselves with the possibility of looking old and boring. I beat Peggy P’s effort on one route (I think it was 14) but man is she graceful… she made it look much easier than I ever could. I wanged away at 18 for a while but I couldn’t get past the 3rd move. Zak’s.
If you’ve no idea what this is all about you can check out last year’s comps here. Look close and you’ll see L and maybe even Zak’s toque.
Grrrrrrr… ip?
ImageMagick and more…
This on the other hand is an image uploaded and resized using the below software.
ImageMagick etc.
An example of a knot. And an image linked and resized using imagemagick and ImageManager. Lets see if it worked
WordPress
So I screwed Blojsom by trying to make some room on the server. Something to do with JBOSS or Tomcat. Rather than fix it, I’m now moving back to WordPress. I’ve been using it at work and I like the flexibility.
I solved the multiple blog thing by the simplest means possible…googling it. If you install multiple copies in different directories and then make separate mysql databases then it works just fine. Witness Zak’s Blog!
Now I’ve got to rebuild the templates but it should be easier the second time.
Cioa
flavor.properties
To select you own themes that haven’t been uploaded (still working on that) edit flavor.properties to read
html=”your main template”.vm
Where O’ Where…
Finally found the pesky flat files for Blojsom. They reside in /private/var/root/blojsom-blogs/ I found them by resorting to opening the properties files one-by-one. The clue came from blojsom.properties of course.
What is interesting is I can’t go to this directory without logging in as root (su) and then when I do it shows me as being in ~/blojsom-blogs root#
I have no idea…