The WordPress blog was still on the Fedora Core 1 server. Most everything else had been migrated over to the newer Emperor server. The upgrade choked on the older version of the MySQL database on Core 1.
So I did what I should have months ago. Moved it over to the new box.
“Battle ye not with monsters, lest ye also become a monster. And remember that when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” –Nietzche
Has Jack Bauer caught up to himself in Day 6.
ClipLink was developed awhile ago to deal with hyperlinks in email.
Email hyperlinks, shortcuts and urls are some of the most juicy targets for viruses, spyware and phishers. Security updates affect how linking works in email but for most folks it just causes frustration.
When you want to insert a link:
Open Windows Explorer and go to the file or folder you want
Right-click on that file or folder; select Send To > Clipboard-Link
A window pops up to display a properly formatted hyperlink to show you what it is now on the clipboard
Go back to your email, document or spreadsheet and Paste the hyperlink
ClipLink was done in VB6. The NSIS installer takes care of setting up the Send To > Clipboard-Link context shortcut.
Here’s a link to an article by Tim OReilly.
Tim describes the progression of technology over the last few decades. He quotes Michael Crichton who wrote about the concern over rapid the growth of telephones in the ’40’s. AT&T estimated they’d run out of operators if they didn’t hire everyone on the planet to work as a phone operator. With the introduction of electronic phone switching that is in essence what was done.
PCs and software like spreadsheets and desktop databases make operators out of regular folks. In the past we needed computer operators, programmers and analysts. Many of those technical roles evolved to enablers. The cost/benefit isn’t there to continue to need the technical operators role.
So in order for technology to continue to provide the best benefits my role has to evolve. I have to give up the technology that I’ve mastered and move to the next challenge. That’s the reason why I’m not keen on growing the I.S. department. Power users and others are filling roles now that I had earlier. They understand the business needs better than another I.S. person or even myself.
Having more I.S. folks seems to impede the growth of folks who could actually do a better job.
The Windows based systems receive updates using SUS (Sofware Update Services).
That allows a server to check for and download updates nightly. And instead of each system downloading the same updates over the DSL line, they get them from the server on the local network.
As the Fedora systems grew on the network a similiar server was configured for that purpose. A nightly routine replicates the yum update repository. From there the local systems get their updates locally.
FreeBSD is next. Linux-BSD-Central – FreeBSD automatic updates