December 2008
2 posts
Mozy with external drives
It’s finally time to upgrade the external hard drive that hangs off the mac mini serving up our media media at home. While most of this isn’t really critical data I do back it up with Mozy, because, it’s cheap and easier than re-creating. So far, I’ve added the new drive, copied over all the old data with rsync and swapped names of the mounted drives. Mozy seems pretty...
November 2008
5 posts
early in the morning
Stormy, aka server cat, decides to help me and a coworker manage a server move with our hosting provider, really freakin’ early in the morning.
installing rmagick 1.15.x on RHEL 5
I had an old post on getting rmagick to compile on RHEL4, and consider this an update (if you still happen to use rmagick 1.x). I suspect you probably still need the urw-fonts package installed in RHEL5 but you’ll also want to add the --disable-htmldoc flag.
Don't call it a comeback
I’ve finally, and painfully finished importing my old blog posts mostly by hand. I tried automating it, but there seemed to be too much tweaking required between the source that mephisto stored, and how blogger would deal with it. Please let me know if anything seems out of place or broken.
Hosted Blog?
I’m testing out using a hosted blog, with Blogger, because my normal mephisto-based blog is on the fritz thanks to my ruby / rails upgrade. And, quite honestly, I’m not sure I really enjoy maintaining the blog software anymore. I don’t really have any super-hardcore customizations that I need in a blog. So, here goes. Update: I’m a bit bummed there isn’t a way to...