I’d been putting off the update of my MediaWiki-powered TechSales wiki to 1.5.2. Well, I finally took the plunge yesterday, and with the lack of any clear documentation, proceeded to updated from 1.4.9. I took a backup of my mw_ data in MySQL using PHPMyAdmin, and then simply overwrote everything in my /wiki folder ……

Since I got a Mac a few years ago, it’s prompted me to use my Windows latpop at work in a slightly different manner. I now actually use the Desktop. It used to be that I’d stash everything in My Documents, but I’ve since discovered that using the Desktop for short term storage or figuring…

In no particular order, here are some worthy news about virtualization technology from VMware today: Community Built Virtual Machines, from employees at VMware A pre-built Ubuntu 5.10 image has been added to the VMTN A new version of VMware player is out today

While I have made the switch to WordPress for my business and family websites, a friend of mine is still using Mambo for her medical clinic because it’s the right fit for what she needs to provide to her customer base. I had installed and configured the site a few months ago, and hadn’t really…

I finally rethought the way I managed my documents on my Mac and moved stuff around my volumes, so I could do a proper backup. Since my wife and I use different profiles, I figured the data for two of our most used apps (besides Safari) should be on a shared drive. So I moved…

Alessandro Perilli does some interesting thinking out loud, about what it could be like to move your everyday desktop to a virtual machine… How much this will cost? Today I can have a virtualization solution at no cost thanks to the just born VMware Player. Or, if I need more, can invest a small amount…

I’ve been creating so many VMware images that my HDD are close to full… and I have 160Gb of space on my two extra drives (one internal, the other a USB2 external enclosure). I’ve brought it down to the bare essential, and kept the ISO for the OS/products I may need to recreate if the…

I spent the better part of the late evening/early morning yesterday (today?) getting acquainted with WebSphere Application Server Community Edition v1.0. I had tried to play with Gluecode in the past, as we were going through the acquisition, and the installation was far from easy. This time, things are much smoother, even for a relative…