really interesting thread on the Drupal consultants mailing list

Just got a new UPS and it’s working nicely :-)

Running on Debian Etch I had to upgrade the NUT package but this worked very simply by bringing in the one from Lenny (in testing)

I’ve just had cause to restore a two year old backup of a database I haven’t used in a whileSince then postgresql (on Debian at least) has added the option to have multiple ‘clusters’ and multple versions running on the same machine.

Fortunately the old version (7.4) was still available

Steps

specifically I wanted to create a patch equal to the changes between two versions of Drupal - but it turns out that a packaging script adds some info to releases that isn’t in the cvs version so this doesn’t quite do what I wanted.

it’s still useful though …

I’ve just been working on a site that uses sIFR to incorporate a specific font into the design - this works very well generally but we had a problem where links did not work on the MAC or in IE6.

This problem seems to have been solved in sIFR3 which also brings much more flexibility - styles can change within the replaced text, filters like drop shadow area available - and actions like mouseover can trigger javascript callbacks.

I’ve been using open source software and developing php for a decade or so now - but until recently the two have been fairly separate.

Now I’m working on Drupal I need to keep track of my work - and merge in the changes from ‘upstream’.

here’s the useful info I found …

Shamelessly copied from:

Configure Apache SSL and Subversion in Debian in 683 seconds

This just saved me lots of time and I want to keep a copy for later - just in case…

Mar 26 2005

(The apache2+SSL part was taken from the article Debian, Apache2 and SSL by Ian Miller)

I’ve had too many hard disk failures over the years and decided to use RAID to ensure that all my photos, email and work are always copied to two disks so that if any one of them fails I don’t lose anything.

I’ve just been experimenting with text searches: http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/docs/tsearch-V2-intro.html

This is something I played around with ages ago and didn’t make notes on - now I’m doing a little more work pulling together what I learned then along with some new stuff.