OS X http://addingunderstanding.com/taxonomy/term/103/atom/feed 2007-10-30T20:26:20-06:00 Trading Time Capsules http://addingunderstanding.com/2008/04/trading-time-capsules 2008-04-11T12:18:56-06:00 2008-04-11T12:18:56-06:00 joshb Here's a quick random thought. As has been pointed out on some other blogs one of the shortcomings of the Time Capsule is that it only protects against some kinds of needs for data recovery. One could add a little bit more protection without sacrificing the convenience by swapping time capsule's with one's neighbor and having your backups live at their house and vice versa. This only works for people in houses close enough for it to happen and doesn't protect against all ills like a flood wiping out the neighborhood but would likely provide some protection against a house fire... of course the resulting physical insecurity of all your data means you have to really trust your neighbor.

]]> Here's a quick random thought. As has been pointed out on some other blogs one of the shortcomings of the Time Capsule is that it only protects against some kinds of needs for data recovery. One could add a little bit more protection without sacrificing the convenience by swapping time capsule's with one's neighbor and having your backups live at their house and vice versa. This only works for people in houses close enough for it to happen and doesn't protect against all ills like a flood wiping out the neighborhood but would likely provide some protection against a house fire... of course the resulting physical insecurity of all your data means you have to really trust your neighbor.

]]> Lullabot workshops and server rebuilds http://addingunderstanding.com/2008/01/lullabot-workshops-and-server-rebuilds 2008-01-16T04:00:00-07:00 2008-01-29T22:04:27-07:00 joshb Lullabot LogoIt has been a busy 2008 so far. I spent the first full week of the year at the Lullabot Drupal API workshops in beautiful, rainy, Portland. It didn't take long to figure out that I also really wanted to head off to the themeing workshops in February as well. I came home ready to wrap up a couple of projects and spend countless hours working on patches and uber-cool modules and hacks for all kinds of sites.

All went well on Sunday as I moved several sites and did a little database trickery to make things hum along. When I shut down for the day early Monday morning things were buzzing right along. Murphy, however, was hard at work. A problem with the server resulted in the need to rebuild the whole box from scratch. Even more fun it is a remote server and the backups weren't working as well as they should have been.

The moral is that two days later the server is alive and kicking, the backups are working properly and we're almost back even. A couple of modules I wrote, mostly little helper functions really, hadn't been backed up or incorporated into my newly minted SVN system so they will have to be re-written on Wednesday.

]]> Lullabot LogoIt has been a busy 2008 so far. I spent the first full week of the year at the Lullabot Drupal API workshops in beautiful, rainy, Portland. It didn't take long to figure out that I also really wanted to head off to the themeing workshops in February as well. I came home ready to wrap up a couple of projects and spend countless hours working on patches and uber-cool modules and hacks for all kinds of sites.

All went well on Sunday as I moved several sites and did a little database trickery to make things hum along. When I shut down for the day early Monday morning things were buzzing right along. Murphy, however, was hard at work. A problem with the server resulted in the need to rebuild the whole box from scratch. Even more fun it is a remote server and the backups weren't working as well as they should have been.

The moral is that two days later the server is alive and kicking, the backups are working properly and we're almost back even. A couple of modules I wrote, mostly little helper functions really, hadn't been backed up or incorporated into my newly minted SVN system so they will have to be re-written on Wednesday.

]]> Fixing up mailman move instructions http://addingunderstanding.com/2007/11/fixing-mailman-move-instructions 2007-11-15T18:56:18-07:00 2007-11-15T18:56:18-07:00 joshb A reader pointed out a problem with the HTML coding on the Mailman server move instructions page was pretty goofy. Somewhere along the lines the order of filters in Drupal got bungled on my installation. Murphy willing all is now well.

]]> A reader pointed out a problem with the HTML coding on the Mailman server move instructions page was pretty goofy. Somewhere along the lines the order of filters in Drupal got bungled on my installation. Murphy willing all is now well.

]]> Story of the leopard http://addingunderstanding.com/2007/10/story-leopard 2007-10-30T20:26:20-06:00 2007-10-30T20:26:20-06:00 joshb The story of the Leopard Install. Install Leopard... oooh ahh wonderful. Open mail... wait for database conversion. See that Mail Act On is disabled. Sob. Cry. AHHHHHH. Find this post about Mail Act On and start breathing again.

]]> The story of the Leopard Install. Install Leopard... oooh ahh wonderful. Open mail... wait for database conversion. See that Mail Act On is disabled. Sob. Cry. AHHHHHH. Find this post about Mail Act On and start breathing again.

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