Busy busy weekend

[giza]

This was a busy weekend. I spent most of it at unclekage's working on a new set of laptops we got for Registration. (faster and with more RAM than the previous ones, which were about 5 years old) Along the way, I cursed out WAMP Server many many times. The problem with that particular package is that it seems to be particularly unforgiving of any configuration issues in Drupal. Whereas on UNIX systems, I'd get an actual PHP error, or at least a blank page, not in WAMP--I'll wind up with a "connection has been reset" error, or worse yet, PHP/Apache crashing on me.

A related PROTIP: Don't try and use the APC cache on windows. It just doesn't work. Xcache works just fine, however.

At any rate, the laptops are all taken care of, and I installed Release Canidate 2 of our onsite registration system.

Other than fighting with WAMP over the weekend, I wrote a bunch of shell code in the form of utilities to help me manage the MySQL installation a little easier, especially for setting up replication. Now I can do something like:

mysqldump-from-host 192.168.1.2 | mysql
mysql-master-slave-start
mysql-master-slave-status

(Naturally I'd have a read lock on the master database first.)

I also picked up a nifty little USB stick holder:



It holds 2 USB sticks and fits nicely in my pocket. For $4, it wasn't a bad buy.

Comments

[lionman.livejournal.com]

2 measly USB sticks? Dooood, I've got one that's meant to hold a 6-pack, and I keep 12 in it! ;-)

I would like to swap out some of the ones less than 8G each for 32G ones, that would be cool, though.

[tilt-longtail.livejournal.com]

For $4 you coulda bought me a happy meal!

[giza.livejournal.com]

McDonald's is Evil. Evil with a capital "E".

[silverscalenaga.livejournal.com]

looks like a dildo.

[giza.livejournal.com]

I am never accepting a USB stick from you again. ;-)