Archive for March, 2012
28-Mar-2012
Mar 29th
Minor glitches on startup
There were still a few gltches in accessing the vmswiki, but it was fairly easy so find the cause: A wrong logical diskname for the LD-device holding Python and moinmoin (the wiki software) and a typo in defining moin_static – that I define as a searchlist, so I don’t have to move around with files when installing a new moinmoin version….
After that was settled and repaired, the wiki works like before – a slow starter but once started, pretty fast.
Blogs more responsive
The blogs are more responsive as well, and suffer less partial crashes – so far. More important: I have less trouble logging in into the admin pages. I must have cleaned up quite some things in the attempt of updating and reversing the whole activity.
But now I got the answers on what the heck had happened, I coud give it a try once more. In which case I may decide to upgrade WP as well. That normally is easy, no trouble at all, though I’ll have to prepare a thing or two. But every update went nice and smoothly. But I’ll take Mark’s suggestion: have a look first what changed between 5.2 (supplied by HP and ported by Mark Berryman – which is the current version I’m using curently) and 5.3 (as ported by Mark Berryman). Anyway I’ll have to use the version op PHPWASD that comes with this kit…
Tools & tricks for troubleshooting SharePoint 2010: Unexpected Errors
Mar 28th
A good part of my time I’m working on troubleshooting issues with SharePoint 2010 farms. Usually this includes (but is not limited to) unexpected errors and performance problems. In this blogpost I will describe some of the tools and tricks I use on a daily basis to pinpoint the source of problems.
Tools & tricks for troubleshooting SharePoint 2010 Part I: Unexpected Errors
Mar 28th
A good part of my time I’m working on troubleshooting issues with SharePoint 2010 farms. Usually this includes (but is not limited to) unexpected errors and performance problems. In this blogpost series I will describe some of the tools and tricks I use on a daily basis to pinpoint the source of problems.
27-Mar-2012
Mar 27th
Power loss
Shortly after 17:44 local time (the system is set to UTC, no DST, so in nreal time, it’s two hours later) power was llost. The system didn’t restart automaticly since the HSX50 was – once again – too slow. So I had to reboot by hand. By luck, the startup of the web-based stuff didn’t mention the new PHP confuguration so all blogs started as usual.
25-Mar-2012
Mar 25th
PHP updated
Taking the big plunge: updated PHP on Diana. Using Mark Berryman’s 5.3 port and WASDPHP 1.4.3, I did an update ‘on the fly’ – fingers crossed. This time, I followed the description to the letter.
You may have noticed.
It’s faster (it seems so anyway) and looks more stable; looking at WordPress anyway. And as the site administartor and maintainer: I got rid of the nasty login-failures.
DelayLoadImage
Mar 19th
With the release of Mango downloading bitmaps from the internet was moved to the background. That is indeed a very good feature, but it lacks something crucial;
DelayLoadImage
Mar 19th
With the release of Mango downloading bitmaps from the internet was moved to the background. That is indeed a very good feature, but it lacks something crucial;