I posted my second ever article to Xsanity. Find it here. Beau posted an article as well. It’s a really good explanation of cvadmin. Find it here. Still more to come…
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reCaptcha and Comments
After talking with the folks at Xsanity I have decided to try and open up comments to the site. You can still auth and post comments if you have an OpenID account, but you can now do so through the standard WordPress method provided you fill in the Captcha info. We’ll see how this works. Last time I tried comments there was simply too much spam. I’m willing to give it a second shot though, especially with the fancy-schmancy OCR whatnot enabled… To get Captcha to work I used the WP-reCAPTCHA plug-in available here. In order to activate it you need an API key from recaptcha but once you paste…
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MySQL and WordPress Problems
Turns out my WordPress update didn’t go nearly as well as I thought. Pretty much none of the posts that I had made since the update were showing up as they were stuck in the Unpublished Category. So I restored from my pre-upgrade backup and re-did the upgrade process. Worked like a charm this time and is clearly moving items out of Unpublished as it should, so things should be back to normal. I am now tracking down the missing posts and republishing them. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Sun's OpenStorage
OpenSolaris + Open Storage + ZFS = Open Source storage. Not that you can’t just pay Sun for an appliance if that’s what you’re after. They have the OpenStorage 7000, but really isn’t it fun to build up your own? If that’s what you’re after Sun has the Open Storage Community page. Using Open Storage you can go far beyond using Time Machine with an Open Solaris NAS. You can build your own truly enterprise class storage system and connect to it from pretty much any operating system. However, it’s not an appliance. Support isn’t necessarily going to be end=to-end if you BTO your own gear, rolling your own SAN.…
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On the Road: Fear and Loathing at MacWorld
I’ve only been attending MacWorld since a few years ago when I gave that talk on Mac OS X Server security. Before then I had no clue that there was this whole community of people out there that were going through the same issues that I was in regard to the more network and server side of things. I can’t help but think back to how much richer and more fulfilled all of this has made my career. This ecosystem has continued to grow and change, and through all of it, the last few years I am happy to have been able to contribute to it. To some extent the…
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Updating the Promise Firmware
Promise announced a new firmware, support for terabyte drive modules and a new sleeker chassis design at MacWorld. While the chassis design and the terabyte drive module support are self explanatory you might be asking what’s up with the ‘ole firmware upgrade. To upgrade the firmware start off by going to the Promise website for the firmware updater, read the agreement and click on I Agree to download the AppleMultifw_v10.05.2270.01.zip file. Extract the file and grab the AppleMultifw_v10.05.2270.01.img file. Now make sure that any media being stored on the SAN has been backed up to a secure location. Now for the easy part, log in to the web portal for…
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Certification Exams
When getting ready for your certifications, it helps to know how prepared you are. Basically, there are two fairly basic ways to evaluate readiness. The first (and one of the most practical) is to do lots of exam simulation questions when possible to get comfortable with the testing format. Now, don’t go too far with this and cheat. Remember that for nearly every exam offered by nearly every vendor out there, buying a brain dump is considered cheating. Many of the organizations offering exams will plant incorrect answers into material to attempt to find people who study to the brain dumps. If you get caught doing so you will likely…
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On the Road: MacWorld Parties
Parties tonight: The Kerio Channel Mixer is at the Fly Trap and the AquaConnect party is at the Holy Cow. For a more complete list of events check out this site.
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SCALE Speakers Revealed
The Southern California Linux Expo has released the list of speakers for the seventh annual conference being held at the LAX Westin on February 20th through 22nd. Regrettably I will not be one of the speakers this year as I’ll be far away from Los Angeles, but the crop of talent they came up with this year is one of the best yet. Check it out here.
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MacDayLA
MacDayLA is a new (or semi-new) mini-conference being held once a month in Los Angeles. It is an extension of other conferences that have been run by Deborah Shadovitz, a long time Mac expert, author and evangelist in Southern California. Best of luck to her in helping to further the Mac community in the southland.