One week later the scripts seems to be doing their job just fine. The primary server is around 56GB right now, and each day is taking 150-160MB in updates.
Author Archives: cameron
Incremental backups with rsync
There are some good resources guiding people to make shell scripts for creating incremental backups using rsync, but it’s still a lot to wade through if you’re not very familiar with some of the ins and outs of *nix terminal commands. ** NOTE: I’m still testing these scripts to make sure they all work. In …
DFL Beta
The new DFL Beta site is up. It’s finally at a place where the other collaborators can begin working to add content without me having to be an intermediate. It’s a little sparse in the fish department right now, but that’s up to our friends down at SIO to do for us – write roughly …
Mac Trojan: Leap-A (OSX/Oomp-A)
There’s some news last night about the first Mac OS X “virus” in the wild. First of all, it’s NOT a virus. It’s a Trojan horse, which requires the user to execute the program him/herself. It’s low-risk and probably won’t spread beyond the few people who’ve already been infected. Good news is that it appears …
Flood
Not news to some: I’ve been working on writing a CMS for my church. We considered some of the readily available FOSS solutions, but none really fit the bill in the ways that we need for one reason or another. So with this post I’m adding a Flood category to my blog. It’s still in …
nvidia driver installs on Fedora Core 4
Earlier this week I had the unpleasant task of trying to fix/update the NVidia drivers on my Fedora workstation. Video was working fine. What was giving me problems was the hardware 3D support, which is needed by the uber expensive visualization app I use for data analysis. I’ve never had a pleasant, much less easy, …
Press Release
Keep an eye out in two weeks for a press release of the DFL. In two weeks we should have a pretty good beta up and running… sort of? It’ll depend on my other responsibilities at work. The beta is up and running right now: DFL. Things left to do for this revision: Tie-together a …
PHP Collaboration Project
I listened to the php|architect Pro PHP podcast, Jan 26 episode, the other day. In it there was an interview with Andi Gutmans about PHP6 and the “new” PHP Collaboration Project. There are three parts to this project: 1) A PHP Framework 2) Eclipse IDE integration for PHP (plugin) 3) Best practices. A few points: …
Siggraph2006
Well, as my situation at work would have it, German (coworker), Larry, and I are working on a paper to submit to Siggraph for our work on the DFL. The deadline is Friday. In the event our paper isn’t accepted, we’re going to look at doing a poster or talk. Wish us luck!
CSS Fan
First off, I don’t want people to think I’m some kind of web genius or something. I’ve been doing web design in my spare time (save my college years when I really didn’t have the time), since 1995, and it hasn’t been until recently that I’ve put much more effort into developing my skills. Designs …