Santa Came Early
Santa delivered his goods early at Inuits this year
Sorry John, but we figured the Girls in Your shirt trick would be better than the tags on your Fedora one :)
Bort has another pic, and Dieter suddenly wants to test Zenoss too :)
openQRM.com
Last weekend I blogged about openQRM 4.2 being released.
This morning Matt finally let me know the long waiting fresh and new Drupal based openQRM.com is live !
Feed Added!
Do we want an Open Source MySQL Monitoring tool ?
Matt Reid wants to know what we want in an Open Source MySQL monitoring solution ?
He is working on the second incarnation of Monolith and wants input from the MySQL community.
Now for me the bigger question is if we want an isolated tool that runs stand alone, or a tool which we can integrate it in something we already have.
To me there is a difference between a tool that I want to use to debug my environment, such as Mytop or MySQL Activity Report, in that case I need some tool that quickly installs with little dependencies and little impact.
Migrate, MultiSite and Restyle
Done
Some of my lower traffic sites were still on an old Drupal 5, others were at 6.4 and lots of modules were outdated. So I set out to migrate all the sites to a multisite setup. I now have a set of shared modules , shared themes and some specific ones .. just as it is meant to be. And I only have 1 central Drupal instance to upgrade. Next step is figuring out how to trigger the database upgrades from 1 central place.
Technorati RRD
Bort is in to graphs and stats these days, so he was interested in my little Technorati hack.
Lots of us bloggers are using Technorati to track who’s joining the discussion on articles we posts. Technorati gives you details on how many blogs link to you, and how much they link to you and translate that into an Authority rank. Now what they don’t give you is an idea on how that rank evolves.
DNS FAIL
Seen over at Failblog, you could call it OS fail also actually .. maybe one day people will realize that AVG correctly identified the Trojan
Phrase from nearest book meme
Meme from codeblog
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
My result:
“We’ll cover more on where to place your name servers in Chapter 8, Growing Your Domains.” - DNS and BIND , 2nd Edition , Paul Albitz & Cricket Liu
CloudCafe !
I`m in John’s Cloud Cafe !
Everything is a Funky DNS Problem
Tom dropped me a mail today letting me know that all the links to my RSS feed were broken.
I tested, and tested again and failed to reproduce the problem.
The only things I had changed recently where the administrator menu module and Pathauto module, apart from that I had not made any changes. So I tried uninstalling the modules to see if that helped, it didn’t. There was no difference between the 2 setups.
Defining Open Source
Bart wonders why my definition of Open Source is.
The Open Source Definition pretty much defines what Open Source is to me.
But it’s mostly because of that definition that you get a lot of other things for free.
It gives you freedom to learn, to improve, it gives you an ecosystem in which you can solve problems rather than having to tell your customer that your hands are tied and you can’t help them