17-Sep-2007

New T4 collector
I got the new T4-collector and installed it on Diana, and I hope this wil solve the problems with Monitor output. Again, the ‘special version’ had to be commented out and the batchjob resubmitted, so it is to be expected that the day after tomorrow we’ll have results – or tomorrow, perhaps. We’ll see.
Aphrodite’s system disk
is full for just over 50% and I was curious what files wer on that. First sorted on size, it shows that 30% of the files is over 32 Mb in size:
. Next, of course, to find out what files take that space! The obvious cause: all the photographs, because both the originals I’m currently working on ar of course on-line, and also the ones published on the web are here – as a backup (to create the new content, for instance).
It will improve over time, when all are published, it will be archived (The raw material already is but they are needed online as well).
2007 Holiday pictures
are almost done. It takes time to process over 500 images, combining them (there are quite a lot ‘composed’ images this time), filtering out what’s too bad, and comment them (as far as needed). The process has been delayed by numreous problems on the Windows workstation, of which loss of the active tasks on the toolbar was most annoying. It could not be solved, and things tunrned out so bad I had te reverse to an earlier restore point, and that meant re-applying patches and re-installing the album-software – finding out that all comments that have been entered before, were lost….Reversing the restoration returned my taskbar – and all comments, so my suspicion is that JAlbum stores data in the Windows registry. Bad place for that!
Anyway, only four days to go (two of them hold a lot of pictures!).
Web re-design is getting on slowly as well, but I get a pretty good idea how it will look like. It’s being looked at on an XAMPP installation, although that is a newer PHP version. I’m inn the process of changing the template I intend to use, still working out what images will be on top and in the body. Perhaps I’ll start with the basic structure first, and push in the new main page later on.