Month: August 2007

Web reorganisation
gets on the way. I have done all holiday pictures to the new structure (after spell- and grammar check…) and some manual editing – the template didn’t work as completely as I thought it would – but once the pages have been created, there is no need to redo the whole exercise (I hope). It’s all the same version of JAlbum (7.1) although a new one arrived in the middle of the activity. I decided to wait installing it after these were all done. It’s a lot of pictures: about 1500 altogether. And I didn’t want to get it messed up again.
There still is a lot to do: All other pictures must be reorganized – and extranous data added: the walks themselves (and, eventually, pictures) and their downloadable tracking data, other trips we did, artwork, and, if the stuff gets here in time, a lot of pictures of Kasper’s skateboarding skills. And, of course, a new home page and some other stuff as well. Some access actuallyt requires SSL, especially when directly accessable from the main page (though it will remain a subdomain in itself). Enough work at hand (apart from the normal job, that is)
Suse / Linux woes
Although all seems Ok with Suse, in vact it isn’t. DHCP still doesn’t work, it seems Diana isn’t even triggered. It might be that the system (Iona, as a Linix box) is connected via Verberus – the boundary router – and that, by that connection, it’s bloating for an address (255.255.255.255…) is blocked. I don’t like the request at all: Since it’s know what server should be contacted (Diana, or better: the cluster, on 192.168.0.200) or just the network (broadcast address is specified as 192.168.0.255) the full wildcard (255.255.255.255) is very, very undesirable. I’ve seen Cerberus react – not Diana.
Oh well – entegring fixed data is not really a problem, but it’s the principle that counts, and that didn’t work as expected.
Other problems: I want Iona to be usable as a normal workstation – that is: not just (Open)Office and a webbrowser, I want to be avle to watch video (from the Internet or disk) and DVD, and listen to music – not just MP3 but WAV (Windows Audio) as well. Forget it: The standard software isn’t able to cope with that: missing plug-ins, I should download them. Which ones, and from where? I foudn some – and they come in source format with a rough idea how to build and install. I found at least some of the packages I wanted, and still need to install them. But for any Linux distribution being feasable for non-experts,’the developers (of applications and tools) can still learn a lot from others – including (their most hated enemy) Microsoft.
Issues on VMS ?
Actually: none – as you may expect. It’s just that the latest updates are waiting to be installed, but since there seems no trouble at all – why bother? (I should, at least, install the Install-1 type: “to be installed by all customers” but I somehow fail to create the time-slot to do it).
Oh, by the way: Just updated the blog software to th next version (2.2.2, just out (2 days ago) – just unzipped the distribution over the old files (but I did make a backup first, of course).