Day: January 26, 2009

Linux installations
As a part of getting used to Linux, I installed VMWare on Demeter, in order to allow both Windows and Linux on one machine. Since the disk on Demeter is limited, the virtual machines are on an external disk – making it easy to do the same on any other machine. I now have 3 Linux installations: Ubuntu 8.7.04 LTS (Long Time Support), and a second one that I upgraded to 8.10; Last I installed CentOS 5.2 – this is a clone of RedHat, and because RedHat is leading the market, it is the base for the LPI certification; the first exam is scheduled on 20-feb…
So far, I’m doing well on the exams that come with the course book.
On Aphrodite, I have Ubuntu installed as a working environment, aside the second WindowsXP Pro installation, this one is still needed because not all software has a equivalent on Linux: the Garmin software is not available on Linux, and what’s available to process the images is not what i need – too limited and uneasy to work with. Second, the sound driver just works Stereo, on both front speakers, where Aphrodite contains a 7.1 sound system: two front speakers, two side, two rear and a center one – and a bass box. Advantage: the ATI video card does handle the nice video features that come with the software (once I got the non-standard drivers loaded).
But I got the mail working. To read the Outlook personal folders, I had to install Thunderbird on the new Windows environment, after moving all messages that were store ‘on top’ to a directory. Otherwise Thunderbird didn’t read them. I still have to move the files, but when that’s done, I will normally use the Ubuntu environment, and start the Windows environment only when I need it. It’ll save be $400.- for Office Standard – though I may still purchase it. Or just the Home version. I’ve not yet decided on that…
PHP once again
It’s weird. What blog I want to administer does matter. Login on teh SYSMGR blog is no problem – not at all – but the Trips,Tracks and Travels is quite another story. Login doesn’t fail but the admin page will simply fail to show. Case seems to happen: “www.grootersnet.nl/Tracks/” causes problems, retrying “www.grootersnet.nl/tracks/” works. Only with the admin page….Stop the PHP engine and retry – and all of a sudden it works…It raises the suspicion that the new PHPWASD, as a runtime environment, poses a problem with PHP. However, the SYSMGR blog – this one – does not have these problems and works like a charm – mostly, and it’s just the administration environment: accessing the blog itself simply works…
It might be that the problems with the previous version have something to do with installed images, or used libraries. I did do some debug there, and found that somewhere in PHPSHR, an access violation blocks processing. Even running the PHP_INFO script.
HP must have received quite some response: the new PHPengine has not been released yet.