Two APC Smart-UPS 1400XL mounted in the bottom of the rack. I lost 6U but I gained clean, clean power and over 17 minutes of on-battery power.
Next step – install the power monitoring software, set up power outage alerts (3 AM SMS telling me the power cycled..) and the shutdown policies for extended outages.
I didn’t think I’d be hacking WordPress as much as in the past 🙂
I upgraded my sisters blog to WordPress 2.5.1 and ran into two issues that required hacking:
– user password reset is broken
Here’s the issue http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172820 and here is the temporary fix: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6842
– header injection problem when using wp_redirect with enumerated PHP code in pages
Here’s my fix: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/179091
Another useful evening looking at PHP..
I manage and host my sisters Cub Scout pack website.
Today was tidy up time during lunch; sadly the site hasn’t been updated in a long time – it was running an old, old version of WordPress, Gallery 2 and lots of pre-release plugins.
I am in the process of replacing all of my hand-crafted PHP hacks with plugins; some are off the shelf; others I am hacking (converting my direct hacks into plugins).
I really like the BM Custom Login plugin from Ben Gillbanks – he’s the same guy that made the Regulus theme.
I’m testing out the Microsoft Connector bus for my commute – I figure an hour of listening to podcasts, audiobooks or music combined with blogging and email could be more productive, less costly – and certainly greener – than driving.
Music for the commute today:
Ting Tings, Goldfrapp, T-Rex, Noah and the Whale, British Sea Power.
I’ve almost been here for three months; time to unwrap the blogging.
I’ve got a couple of really marketing-centric videos up on Edge; I’ll post the links later.
Google gets to handle the spam. There’s a lot of it.
Here’s my overnight spam count:
Ouch.
The power dropped for a second or two this morning; a good test for the Uninterruptible Power Supplies that are keeping the servers safe.
Everything worked perfectly; I need to add the Vonage box to the UPS power too – the only thing that went out was the phone.
I finally got round to building my lab servers in my office.
It’s certainly different using Microsoft Virtual Server and System Center Virtual Management Manager.
I’m scratching around for a 64 bit, Hyper-V capable server now.
I installed twhirl a couple of months ago. Today it stopped working telling me that Adobe Air was broken.
There is nothing on Vista to let me uninstall, repair or otherwise tinker with Air and its applications. I found this timely blog post on uninstall:
http://blog.flashmech.net/2008/05/this-is-how-you-uninstall-adobe-air/
Quoted from his email, here’s how you uninstall Adobe AIR if it does not appear in the Add/Remove Programs control panel:
Download the latest installer and then pass it the “-uninstall” flag from the command line, like so:
AdobeAIRInstaller.exe –uninstall
Worked like a champ.
We switched over our phone providers when we moved.
Here’s how it looks so far:
Utah:
Local – Qwest – $45 per month
LD/Intl – AT&T – $75 per month
DSL – Covad – $130 per monthWashington:
DSL – Covad – $130 per month
VOIP – Vonage – $30 per month
Most of our phone service was international to the UK – we made very few local or long distance calls. Now with Vonage we’re getting those as part of our plan.
The other big saving is in killing the local service. I got Covad with naked DSL (also known as a dry line) – so there’s no dial tone on the phone – just data.
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