PC Cleanup
This weekend was used to do some cleanup on Aphrodite – burn a lot of not-too-urgent, read-only data to DVD and CD in order to free some room for new data. Part of what’s currently on the C drive shouldn’t be there in the first place to it will be moved elsewhere, but in order to do so, some space had to be freed – and that meant archiving files to read-only storage. A lot of older files – the 2004, 2005 and 2006 bootcamp files, for instance – have been moved off disk, and all photographs that were processed to be published as well. Stored downloaded software went to DVD as well as finished projects.
On the VMS front, a minor glitch in backing up the webs has been solved: there was a concurrency issue where creation of the operatorlog index purged files that were already tracked down by BACKUP, doi9ng the backup of the webs – and that caused BACKUP to fail because one of the files to backup wasn’t found. So I disabled purge when webs are backed up, just to prevent these problems. A purge will happen just one day later.
Content program
The initialisation module has been changed to do all init in one call: The web itself, and all blogs under it. I also created the CGI-module, based on a module I created (in Dibol) in some project a year ago. It compiles well, now it’s time tio test it. Since that requires web access, logging should be enabled – meaning yet another addition in the library, and changes to the initialisation module. Both are considered VERY minor….
It’s another matter to split the signalling module in the library, in order to prevebnt the requirement of FDV in linking. It will be just a warning but I consider it ‘not done’ to require the FMS runtime to be available when you don’t need it.
After that; I’ll first do some documentation on the library modules so the files can be published.
Blogs
In the mean time, I’m working on updating the blogs to match WordPress 2.3, and that means I’ll have to do something with themes as well. The first blog I’ll do is the Bootcamp2008 one. The others will stay on 2.2 until my native program is finished. Unless I find a nice theme I can use.
There was an issue with the test blogs after I changed the operator web to SSL: I have the WordPress software accessed directly fro testing reasons: the blogs still tried non-SSL and therefore none of the related links: CSS, Admin entry… worked. Getting the URL in the paste-buffer, pasting in into the URL enry of the browsen and chnaging the protocol to https:, I was able to change the specification from within the blogs. Now they show up like they should and the admin page works again; Links within the posts however still need an update (should also be https:) so images will show up as well.