At the end of last year one of my mates was talking about problems he was having with staff for his company. They’d hired a graduate who looked good on paper but who then didn’t turn out so well. Following was a process of interviewing other potential employees, this time with some technical questions in the interview, and [...]
The broken links mentioned last post did indeed cause a problem, but with a significant amount of jiggery pokery thinkgs might just be fixed. Ended up creating a script to fix links is 130 directories – yeah, heaps! – by overwriting the bad symbolic links with hard links to the photos in their new location. Magic! [...]
So the other day my webserver was moved to a new cluster. Things seemed fine until I had a poke around inside the Gallery and I discovered that thousands of symbolic links to image files are now invalid! Contacted support, but there’s nothing much they can do. I can’t see how the links are set [...]
I think I must be getting old. Nostalgic. Back in the day, when I was a long-haired uni student, a lot of my friends knew me as ‘Bill’, the nickname I used online. Being a regular kind of name name, people often thought it was my real name, or just remembered it more easily. Anyhoo… [...]
Rome, Vatican City, Venice, Osoppo (near Udine)… places I have been, if only for a short while, in Italy. I’ve just made the last of my Europe photos (London since the birthday visit to Denmark) available in my Gallery. Unfortunately I have nothing from my visit to Austria or the stopover in Vietnam, [...]
It seems that the transfer of my account to a PHP5 cluster has been successful… test Typo3 installation up-and-running. Had a bit of a hiccup along the way, though – neglected to update the DNS entries to point my domain(s) to the new address! Sorted now — subpixels.com live(s)! :o) -G.
I’ve been thinking about trying out a content management system (I mean, other than this WordPress blog!), as I’ve recently been frustrated with keeping some records ‘by hand’, as it were. On the upside, I’ve had some practise with creating HTML pages that I haven’t had for a while. I started out with my (reasonably) [...]
It didn’t escape my attention that the autoinstaller for WordPress supplied by my host, servage.net (nb: link includes my customer code to ‘earn free hosting’…), was out of date at the time I did the installation. When viewing the admin pages it reminded me constantly that an update was available, and that there were urgent [...]
I’ve had Skype installed on my PC for ages, but never actually used it… nor any other webcam chat software. Previously that was mainly due to not having a webcam (a pretty good reason, I reckon!). I’ve had a crappy little cam for a while, and rarely used it – a couple of tests to [...]
Today I thought I’d have another crack at getting Neon v2 to work with other video formats again. I’m sure it used to work, but I’ve broken it somehow. Reinstalling Neon didn’t seem to work, so I’ve taken some drastic measures and tried uninstalling as many codecs as I could figure out how to uninstall… [...]