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roller update with quirks - new look

fake — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:33:00 +0100

i updated roller (from 2.3 to 4.0 !), crippling all 3 active blogs on this server *whistles*... the perfect chance to finally re-do this page ;-) during the update, i noticed that my (ubuntu) mysql server has safe-updates on - although it's neither mentioned in /etc/mysql/my.cnf, nor in any .my.cnf, and it's not possible to disable this setting by putting safe-updates = 0 into a my.cnf or issueing "SET SQL_SAFE_UPDATES=0". Veeery interesting. Safe updates are supposed to keep you from "accidentaly deleting all your data"... i hate it when software patronizes me. One more reason to dislike MySQL.. in favor of PostgreSQL, which *really* rocks. If only i had known this 3 years ago, when i set up roller 1.0 ... ;) This specific issue seems to be a problem with the mysql package in ubuntu, though. I googled for a solution other than rolling my own mysql package, but to no avail - i ended up cut & pasting the database update script contents line-by-line, suffixing every UPDATE line that didn't specify a key column with LIMIT=10000000000. I had to reduce downtime ;) also, on a side note that's probably not going to affect anyone but me anyways, i had to manually add the "locale" column (varchar(20)) to the weblog (or was it website?) table, it was missing in some update script (i started out with roller 1.0! remember?)... the theme you see now is an adopted "integral". i hope you like the new looks... skimming through the list on rollerthemes.com i doubt it will stay long, though ;)

roller updated

fake — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:42:00 +0100

i finally got to updating roller - big step from 1.0 to 2.0.

if you try it, don't forget to enable encrypted passwords in roller-custom.properties, otherwise your logins will fail silently, because unencrypted passwords seem to be the default now (or did i change it on first install? can't remember..)

the search function now works, i think it never did before.

keep having fun blogging!

hint: you also need to add /comment to the list of ajp13-related urls!
and if updating to 2.3-incubating, don't forget to add /CommentAuthenticatorServlet, too!..

SSL Certificate valid again

fake — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:55:00 +0200

i just updated the ssl certificate the quick-and-dirty way. i guess it's still only valid for another 30 days... am i right? nah. to lazy now. let's get that task back to me in 30 days, so i can keep it off my mind till then ;)

in other news, there will be the 5th Fading Dimensions LAN-Party in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany, Europe, 3rd Planet from 22nd to 24th of April, 2005, so be sure to reserve your seats now! Of course i will attend, but, of course, as techie staff member, not as a g4m0r (though i plan to play a bit this time, but i gets me bored so quickly ... )

i'll watch Andromeda now (Season 5 Episode 17 just arrived!).

By the way, does anyone of you know why almost all the series i watch take a break from beginning of march 'til mid-april? anything happening that time of the year in the U.S. ? The only series that continued was 24... Andromeda, Enterprise, even Gilmore Girls took a break, it seems. Input, please!

HTMLArea, Hardware and broken glasses

fake — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 04:27:00 +0100

I just hacked htmlarea into this roller installation, and enabled HTTPS redirection.

htmlarea is really nice, it offers a simple yet powerful html editing capability that maps transparently to textarea-elements, using only javascript code (version 3.0 betas work with mozilla, i wouldn't dare install it otherwise). i had to shuffle a few things around in roller to get it working, but no too much.

a table
you can even edit tables

and add pictures if you like. There is also an aspell-based spell-checker that uses a cgi in the background, but i didn't install that yet. Oh, and multi-level undo...

but now for some real life stuff...

work was productive today, i finished quite a bunch of todos, my mood was accordingly good. a guy from my company's hardware dealer mailed that the hardware i ordered would arrive within the day - 512MB of extra RAM and a SATA-Controller for my athlon64 machine, two things i have been waiting to buy since christmas, so i knew already that the weekend couldn't be all bad, as i would at least have something to do _{(=waste time on)}. But the driver didn't show up all day, and i ended up calling the hardware shop 2 times until i got the o.k. to fetch the stuff myself - i began thinking that customer satisfaction is generally not a valued target of austrian businesses. but when my boss (who kindly offered to drive me) and i arrived, he was very sorry for that mistake and excused 5 times (we're a pretty good customer there...). So i got my hardware just in time... *phew*

i'm not presenting this in correct chronological order, so i'll have to back-reference now: a circumstance that my boss offered to drive me to that shop was, that we sent off a lot of packages today, 66 to be exact, and we had to get them to the post office. we carried in all the packages, and the guy on duty started weighing them... all of them. one after another - and entering the postal code into his peecee. there sure is some need for process optimisation... of course the packages all contained exactly the same, in fact, they were packaged in

bubble wrap!!!

so he could *see* that there's the same content in every package. well... maybe he would have been bored otherwise.

when i finally was home, i instantly began installing the new hardware (of course), and it all just worked(tm). i'm still moving data around, but from what i can 'feel' now, the sata hard disk is much faster then the onboard-udma133 one.

clifford was here, and he almost forgot that he had to moderate a radio show today, so he left again pretty soon. he still was 25 minutes late, 2 other rock linux developers and me listened to the live stream (in uber-ugly quality). afterwards clifford and his girlfriend came back here and clifford created an extraordinary meal, with parts of dead animals and all that.

and now i'm too drunk and much too tired to keep on writing, besides, i'm curious how the 'result' of a htmlarea-created entry will render on the final page.

follow-up the next morning: i completely forgot to mention the broken glasses thing, just when i had a lot of fun hacking hatmlarea, my glasses broke, one 'holder' broke off. great. no i run around like a total wuzz again until i get time to have it fixed...