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Site redesign in progress

Sat, 2005-02-12 05:35 — sepeck

For the few viewers of my site, you may notice several variations of color and placement in the next few weeks. I am playing with themes. While I liked the start I had at www.ssnec.org, It was only a start. I have been playing with css (well, learns it really) and a phptemplate cleanslate (by adrian) example. I think I've gotten most of the basics figured out, so now I need to figure out how to balance the colors. When I am done, I will post it for download on Drupal and include what I hope to be 3-5 variants to choose from.

posible backup script

Sun, 2005-01-16 02:20 — sepeck

posible backup script
You'll end up with files like the following, in /var/backups/mysql:
setuid -r-------- 1 root root 73164 2005-01-15 04:10 01-15-2005_pilotlinksdk.sql.bz2
setuid -r-------- 1 root root 47079 2005-01-15 04:10 01-15-2005_plucker.sql.bz2
setuid -r-------- 1 root root 76717 2005-01-15 04:10 01-15-2005_plucker_openurls_wiki.sql.bz2
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#!/bin/bash

#####################################
### MySQL Configuration Variables ###
#####################################

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin/

# MySQL hostname

outline of Best Practices guide for Drupal

Fri, 2005-01-07 20:52 — sepeck

This is a 'Best Practices' guide I put together for a page in the Drupal Administrators Guide. It lists a couple items that may help people new to site management in general or Drupal in specific avoid some common mistakes. Some of these are normal 'should do already' but regular posts in the forums seems to indicate that it gets missed by the neophyte and experienced developer alike at times.

Best Practices Guidelines
If you are going to invest in the time to setup a CMS, then you should make sure you protect your investment with some simple best practices guidelines. These guidelines are only suggestions on things that need to be considered when managing a web site or CMS. It is up to you to decide what is appropriate for you to implement for your sites.

Kit radio's

Tue, 2005-01-04 21:29 — sepeck

Saw one of these featured on The Screen Savers (before the show went downhill). Nice kit transmitters, hook up to a pc soundcard and broadcast. No need for expensive 'network' or wireless recievers when a stadard 'wireless' radio will do.

[http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?preadd=action&key=FM25B"|FM25B]
[http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?preadd=action&key=FM100B|FM100B Synthesized transmitter kit]
[http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?preadd=action&key=FM35|FM Stero transmitter]

Some newer options too.

test vbscript code

Sat, 2005-01-01 02:43 — admin

test post
[nscode lang="vbscript"]
'===========================================
' NAME: hello.vbs
' COMMENT:
'
'===========================================

WScript.Echo "Hello world"
' End
[/nscode]

Building a new system

Wed, 2004-11-17 12:43 — sepeck

Recently we recieved new laptops at work. As usual, we nuked the default install and set things up the way we are accustomed to (with mandatory configuration information excluded). It occured to me that I don't have a full listing of all the tools I use and insatll by habit. This post is an effort to list what I like to do when installing a system.

Adding i386 directory so you don't have to look for the Windows XP CD [note: this works for servers too]
Copy the i386 directory somewhere on your hard drive. I like to put everything in a support directory
c:\support\i386

Edit your registry to look there for system files

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