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Archive for March, 2009

Spring Migration

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Along with changing of the seasons, I decided to move my current web log from Drupal over to WP.

The features for importing posts in to Word Press limited me to using Drupal’s RSS feed to download all of the current posts and import them in. While it sounds good to start with, I ended up stuck with the fact that Drupal happily limits you to the number of feed items to a maximum of 30, no matter what you do.

I located the actual values to the Drupal configuration at “modules/system/system.admin.inc”. Read more on what I did to change it.
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Written by tgiles

March 29th, 2009 at 10:32 pm

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Visualizing network connections using GraphViz and Afterglow

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After recovering from a particularly nasty crash and migrating my sites and data over to a new server, I became curious at the number of networking connections that it received, and what was going where. Sure, there’s a lot of tools out there to give me that sort of information, but sometimes you would really just like a pretty (if informative) picture of information instead of dry old text scrolling across the screen.
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Written by admin

March 15th, 2009 at 11:53 am

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Crashed

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Had a system go down over the week, so have been scrambling around behind the scenes to get things back where they were.

More here later.

Cheers,

tom

Written by admin

March 8th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

Posted in Muddling About

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