old stuff from August, 2007

wordpress 2.2.x on yahoo webhosting

Monday, 20 August 2007 12:12 am by noel
posted in wordpress

i’ve been stuck with wordpress 2.0.2 for the longest time while version 2.2.2 came out about two weeks ago (as of this writing). its frustrating to wait for yahoo! to upgrade to the latest version.
i dislike waiting. immensely.
so i decided to try my luck at upgrading a wp 2.0.2 to version 2.2.2.
it took some time [...]

mixed systems

Saturday, 18 August 2007 10:15 pm by noel
posted in linux, opinions, software, stuff

linux vs windows vs mac. the neverending comparison. at times i find the exercise futile if not close to pointless. but then again we humans aren’t exactly predictable.
i’ve believe its a matter of personal preference. no matter how hard we push one or the other it still falls on whether it fits the user’s comfort [...]

rsync on cc

Saturday, 18 August 2007 9:24 pm by noel
posted in linux

for an offsite backup project that i have, i decided to use rsync over a clark connect (cc) server. cc is configured in standalone mode — the firewalling duties is done by a separate server running smoothwall.
rsync is not included in the default installation config of cc 4.1 sp1 (community edition) so i had to [...]

offsite backup

Saturday, 18 August 2007 4:11 pm by noel
posted in hardware, linux, stuff

the idea of an offsite backup came up when two of a client’s servers almost got soaked when part of the office roof gave way during a strong storm.
i already setup a system where a backup of the databases and all important files from the desktops and laptops is done daily to a central file [...]

been busy

Saturday, 18 August 2007 11:43 am by noel
posted in firewall, internet, linux, stuff

ach. its been a whole while. i have been kept busy.
we moved. from one house to another. not an easy thing to do. no internet for a couple of weeks. then there’s school opening.
clark connect, smoothwall and rsync have all been keeping me quite occupied as well. offsite backup is all i can tell [...]