Comments for patspam.com http://blog.patspam.com patspampatspampatspampatspam Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:01:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Tarpo by FrankChueng http://blog.patspam.com/2008/tarpo#comment-361 FrankChueng Sat, 10 May 2008 16:52:10 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/?p=1030#comment-361 what a Cool App that I've recently met! Adobe Air, I think, it might be New Wave of ExtJS:) what a Cool App that I’ve recently met!
Adobe Air, I think, it might be New Wave of ExtJS:)

]]> Comment on Tarpo by bingo http://blog.patspam.com/2008/tarpo#comment-358 bingo Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:00:16 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/?p=1030#comment-358 It is fantastic. Very slick. Go Adobe Air. It is fantastic. Very slick.

Go Adobe Air.

]]> Comment on cPanel Automated Backups by Patrick http://blog.patspam.com/2008/cpanel-automated-backups#comment-356 Patrick Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:27:58 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/2008/03/18/cpanel-automated-backups/#comment-356 Yikes! 9GB compressed? I guess a lot of that is 230+ duplicate copies of the Joomla install? I'm not familiar with Joomla but does it have some sort of "user uploads" or "user data" directory that you could focus on backing up instead? On some CMS' you can run multiple sites off a single codebase (which makes updates easier for a start) - looks like Joomla doesn't support that yet (http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=428&t=199298&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=32d602120d27cae9b33d743db74b4b28) but hopefully one day it will to make your life easier (and your cPanel backups smaller). Have you thought about setting up a cron job to take care of the daily tarring/rotating of the sql files? Patrick Yikes! 9GB compressed? I guess a lot of that is 230+ duplicate copies of the Joomla install? I’m not familiar with Joomla but does it have some sort of “user uploads” or “user data” directory that you could focus on backing up instead? On some CMS’ you can run multiple sites off a single codebase (which makes updates easier for a start) - looks like Joomla doesn’t support that yet (http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=428&t=199298&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=32d602120d27cae9b33d743db74b4b28) but hopefully one day it will to make your life easier (and your cPanel backups smaller).

Have you thought about setting up a cron job to take care of the daily tarring/rotating of the sql files?

Patrick

]]> Comment on cPanel Automated Backups by damon http://blog.patspam.com/2008/cpanel-automated-backups#comment-355 damon Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:33:49 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/2008/03/18/cpanel-automated-backups/#comment-355 Pat, this is a very timely post. I am going through a similar quandry here at work. We have a dedicated server that we host all our websites on. Before my involvement in this project, the main account on the server was set up with 230+ subdomains, all with their own Joomla install, but all running off the one SQL database. How efficient do you reckon a 14,000+ table SQL database is?! but that's another story. So, back to the backups. The cPanel backup that runs every night, creates a daily/weekly/monthly set of all accounts, public_html, sql etc, but the daily set is replaced the very next day. That wasn't acceptable to me, because you could easily need to restore back more than one day, but less than one week. So I was SSHing to the server with PuTTY to tar the sql folder every morning. At least this would allow for a data/sql restoration even if we needed to find the public_html stuff from another source. The reason I don't archive the full daily cPanel backup? - it's 9GB Big! Now I need to spend time to split all those sub domains into their own accounts, with their own database just to make things more manageable. Joy. Pat, this is a very timely post.

I am going through a similar quandry here at work. We have a dedicated server that we host all our websites on. Before my involvement in this project, the main account on the server was set up with 230+ subdomains, all with their own Joomla install, but all running off the one SQL database. How efficient do you reckon a 14,000+ table SQL database is?! but that’s another story.

So, back to the backups. The cPanel backup that runs every night, creates a daily/weekly/monthly set of all accounts, public_html, sql etc, but the daily set is replaced the very next day. That wasn’t acceptable to me, because you could easily need to restore back more than one day, but less than one week. So I was SSHing to the server with PuTTY to tar the sql folder every morning. At least this would allow for a data/sql restoration even if we needed to find the public_html stuff from another source. The reason I don’t archive the full daily cPanel backup? - it’s 9GB Big!

Now I need to spend time to split all those sub domains into their own accounts, with their own database just to make things more manageable. Joy.

]]> Comment on Multiple Columns Bookmarklet by Patrick http://blog.patspam.com/2007/multiple-columns-bookmarklet#comment-354 Patrick Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:09:44 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/2007/10/05/multiple-columns-bookmarklet/#comment-354 @andy: yeah good idea, you could hardwire it to certain chunks of text and have a convenience link for visitors (although it currently only works for Firefox so a lot of visitors wouldn't be able to use it). The intended use of the bookmarklet though is for when you're viewing other people's sites, in which case you need to be able to select some arbitrary chunk of text within the context of their entire site layout. @andy: yeah good idea, you could hardwire it to certain chunks of text and have a convenience link for visitors (although it currently only works for Firefox so a lot of visitors wouldn’t be able to use it). The intended use of the bookmarklet though is for when you’re viewing other people’s sites, in which case you need to be able to select some arbitrary chunk of text within the context of their entire site layout.

]]> Comment on Multiple Columns Bookmarklet by andy http://blog.patspam.com/2007/multiple-columns-bookmarklet#comment-353 andy Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:55:47 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/2007/10/05/multiple-columns-bookmarklet/#comment-353 I like it, Pat. A really nice feature. I hadn't really thought about it before but you're right - reading in columns is so much easier on the eye. The big online papers seem to set a max width for their pages to avoid huge chunks of text rolling across the page and that just cheats those of us with extra screen real estate. Selecting text or multiple paragraphs before clicking the link is a little clunky. I assume you can assign these options to some links at the top of an article? I like it, Pat. A really nice feature. I hadn’t really thought about it before but you’re right - reading in columns is so much easier on the eye. The big online papers seem to set a max width for their pages to avoid huge chunks of text rolling across the page and that just cheats those of us with extra screen real estate.

Selecting text or multiple paragraphs before clicking the link is a little clunky. I assume you can assign these options to some links at the top of an article?

]]> Comment on Windows XP Update Auto-Reboot by bonzo http://blog.patspam.com/2005/windows-update-auto-reboot#comment-352 bonzo Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:22:31 +0000 http://patspam.com/2005/10/17/windows-update-auto-reboot/#comment-352 I hear you. I taught at a college, where the PC's (WinXPPro) were set to auto-download, and auto-install too. In a lab, with 12 rooms, averaging 30 PCs in a room, we came in one day, and found that after the "required" reboot, there was a video card driver issue, that rendered the PC's useless (wouldn't boot into the windows GUI, Black Error screen, and auto-reboot, rinse, repeat...) So basically, with this "feature" turned on, 360+/- PCs were rendered useless. Needless to say, the IT dept. switched the setup to automatically download the updates... but BLOCKED the install, until a test group of PCs applied the update. ;-) I hear you. I taught at a college, where the PC’s (WinXPPro) were set to auto-download, and auto-install too.

In a lab, with 12 rooms, averaging 30 PCs in a room, we came in one day, and found that after the “required” reboot, there was a video card driver issue, that rendered the PC’s useless (wouldn’t boot into the windows GUI, Black Error screen, and auto-reboot, rinse, repeat…)

So basically, with this “feature” turned on, 360+/- PCs were rendered useless.

Needless to say, the IT dept. switched the setup to automatically download the updates… but BLOCKED the install, until a test group of PCs applied the update. ;-)

]]> Comment on ExtJS Articles by damon http://blog.patspam.com/2007/extjs-articles#comment-351 damon Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:47:53 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/2007/09/25/ext/#comment-351 That's a bit special posting your articles in eng and chinese. I think you're just showing off now! They seem impressive, even though I don't know anything about Ext. That’s a bit special posting your articles in eng and chinese. I think you’re just showing off now!

They seem impressive, even though I don’t know anything about Ext.

]]> Comment on New Theme by Patrick http://blog.patspam.com/2007/new-theme#comment-265 Patrick Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:18:02 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/2007/01/19/new-theme/#comment-265 heh yeah, almost shamefully so ;) heh yeah, almost shamefully so ;)

]]> Comment on Paddypedia by Patrick http://blog.patspam.com/paddypedia#comment-264 Patrick Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:16:38 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/paddypedia/#comment-264 ah nice. I've been playing with del.iciu.us for a while but haven't managed to get myself hooked yet ah nice. I’ve been playing with del.iciu.us for a while but haven’t managed to get myself hooked yet

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