JDPFu.com 2025

The long promised blog system upgrade as performed yesterday morning.  From your perspective it mostly looks the same.  From the author and management side, it appears completely different.

What’s new and good?

• The new admin pages look and feel is nice.
• The speed should be improved for users
• RSS feeds – I have more control
• New authoring editor is WYSIWYG – that’s fine when you author in the tool, not so much when you author outside and expect markdown, textile, or some other markup langauge to be available. I haven’t determined how to us those.
• Old articles were easily migrated, but the more parts of  articles aren’t currently being displayed.
• Old article markdown is working, as far as I can tell.
• LiveSearch is broken. 2 hours of searching for a solution was not fruitful.
• Lots of 500 Server Errors have been seen.  More on this later. Seems it is a SQLite3 timeout causing it. A workaround exists.

I’m happy to be on a new blogging platform.

I’m happy to be able to allow other authors a platform to blog. Let me know if you are interested. Any spam-like entries will be dealt with harshly.

I’m happy with the moderation system for comments. It doesn’t seem much different from the old version.

Some of us have older media playback devices, not PCs, but dedicated devices like a MediaGate or MASSCOOL. These devices let you playback TV and Movie files in the popular VOB, MPEG, Divx, xvid formats. Some allow network playback too from SMB shared folders. Nice.

They have issues playing HiDef content. Here’s a solution to that problem.

Sometimes you find a new podcast that you’d like to catch up on and the RSS feed only has the most recent releases. Then you locate a mirror, but the file locations aren’t easily programmed. What do you do?

When you already know a programming language and just need a little hint, Cheat-Sheets are just what you need.

If you need a hint for Linux, Solaris or other OS, check out TechPosters.

Microsoft screwed their customers by not including a way to use the old menus and, MORE IMPORTANTLY, keyboard accelerators.

Perl is a “C” like scripting language for those of you who didn’t immediately know or thought I misspelled pearl.

The key things to consider when purchasing a Windows/Linux Laptop are:

• Screen Size / Resolution
• OS
• CPU
• RAM
• WiFi / Wireless
• External ports (USB/Firewire/eSATA)
• Disk Size
• Memory Card Reader
• Install CD / Recovery / Backup
• Warranty / Type of Support
• Applications Preinstalled

To get your piece of the internet as it were, you need a host, DNS, and a domain registrar. Some companies make this really easy as a 1-stop shop. Yes, it is easier, but you really don’t want to do it that way.

Ever needed to recursively sort all files by date and time?

  find . type f -printf ’%TY%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n’ | sort

Enable ssh access to ESXi.

Instructions for the VM Backups using GhettoVCB script from William Lam

The GhettoVCB script. The link to the script is about 5 pgs down, but nowhere near the end of this web page.

General VMware ESXi scripting page.

Essential VCB Backups.