One of the utility type programs that I use all the time is Unison. It does a very nice job of synchronizing two directories including propagating deletes.
I use Unison for synchronizing podcasts between my Ubuntu 8.04 server (running bashpodder) with my MP3 player (a Sansa Clip).
Images are an important part of most websites. When a lot of people successfully complete their first Drupal install, they are surprised to see that there is no image handling built-in. (BTW, this is resolved in Drupal 7.) There are many contributed modules on drupal.org related to image handling and it can be confusing and overwhelming to figure out which ones you need. The purpose of this post is to help new Drupal users to put the correct pieces together for robust and expandable image handling.
Here is the list of modules to enable image handling in Drupal 6.
I manage a Windows server that is running Drupal and I recently had trouble with extremely slow database writes. This problem was the most pronounced when I loaded the Modules page (admin/build/modules). The Modules page load took more than 1 minute. At the same time the database was locked preventing any other page from loading. After looking at the database process list I could see numerous update queries on the menu_links and menu_router tables.
I have been experimenting with Linux for several years and have been pleased by the progress Linux has made in that time. During the time that I have been experimenting with Linux, the Achilles heel has always been hardware support. When I first tried Linux the problem was with support for my Winmodem. More recently, the problem was with the Realtek 8187b wifi card in my Toshiba laptop. A few weeks ago I salvaged a Broadcom wifi card out of a dead computer and tried it in my Toshiba. Since then, Ubuntu 9.04 has been running very well.
This post is a follow-up to my previous blog entry Drupal Installation on Windows.
I am going to explain the steps to enable Clean URLs when using Drupal installed with Wampserver 2. I will assume that you followed the steps listed in the Drupal installation on Windows post and have Drupal running successfully with Wampserver. So let's get into it.
This post is to give a brief overview of the Drupal installation process on Windows. This setup works well as a test or development environment.
Jungledisk is an excellent application for making backup copies of your data. The way it works is that Jungledisk works with online storage providers to encrypt then transfer your data to the online storage service. Please see jungledisk.com for more details.
I have reinstalled my server running CentOS 5.2 and VirtualBox. In the process I have found some items that weren't documented well in the previous post VirtualBox in rc.d
I have modified the vboxcontrol script. The new script is available here.
vboxcontrol.
After setting up the script, you need to run chkconfig --add vboxcontrol
ssh-keygen -t rsa. This will create the private and public key files. Be sure to use the default file location.cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. There are some portions of the CentOS 5.2 netinstall process that aren't as intuitive as I expect. So these notes are to help me next time I install CentOS.
First, make sure to disable IPv6 in the DHCP setup.
Also, when you get to the installation source, select HTTP and enter the following:
Server address: mirror.centos.org (no http://)
Directory: centos/5.2/os/i386 (no / before and after)
If any of this is slightly wrong, the installation will not complete.
