Need a better Wiki - August 2007

Posted by JohnP 08/17/2007 at 16:11

Ok, I’ve been looking for a replacement for this TiddlyWiki solution that I’ve been using for 2 years. There are many good things about this tool and a few bad.
The Good

  • Easy to use
  • Everything is stored in a single .HTML file
  • Simple Wiki Syntax
  • Search
  • Journals
  • Tags
  • No database backend

The Bad

  • HUGE file – over 210KB today
  • JavaScript isn’t split from the main HTML file
  • No remote updates allowed, only local file access allows edits
  • Everything is stored in a single .HTML file
  • Limited scalability
  • No multiuser capability
  • JavaScript for everything? Perl/Ruby would be better.
  • No images, limited format control
  • No database backend
    ‘’The Replacement Candidates’’
  • ServerSideWiki – a take-off from TiddlyWiki
  • LesserWiki – - a take-off from TiddlyWiki
  • SoloWiki – a take-off from TiddlyWiki
  • Typo – RoR-based wiki
  • MediaWiki

WRT54GX-v2

Posted by JohnP 08/14/2007 at 15:53

to be clear, this device is not not used anymore.

I have a Linksys WRT54GX-v2 that was available for just a few months before all the "pre-N" routers became available.

There are many, many good things about this router and only 2 bad things.
Bad Things about this router:

  1. QoS is a feature, but it doesn’t work. Cisco support could only say – send it back.
  2. $180!!!

WebAPP

Posted by JohnP 08/13/2007 at 15:53

My really old site was WebAPP based. There are many plugins available, but for most folks, it just isn’t worth the effort. That’s what I’ve found. Anyway, get it here.

My old site was TiddlyWiki based.

The current site is SoloWiki based. We’ll see how long that lasts. So far, so good.

The new site will be Typo based.

TiddlyWiki

Posted by JohnP 08/10/2007 at 15:47

Get it here
Good tips are here

PDALinks

Posted by JohnP 08/06/2007 at 15:44

Links

Posted by JohnP 08/04/2007 at 15:40

These are the main links I send friends:

  • Slickdeals
  • BensBargains
  • Woot
  • /.
  • Freshmeat
  • Lifehacker
  • Linux.com
  • http://www.voipgo.com/
  • http://www.hotwire.com/
  • Weather-Marietta
  • http://bigal.jdpfu.com/
  • Security Now!
  • SwansonRules
  • http://manifestinvesting.com/ – [[NAIC-based|http://www.betterinvesting.org/]] Investing Site; [[M* Dashboard:TinCup|http://www.manifestinvesting.com/dashboard/20]]; [[M* Dashboard: Solomon’s Select|http://www.manifestinvesting.com/dashboard/334]] [[M* Dashboard: NAIC Growth|http://www.manifestinvesting.com/dashboard/1222]] [[NAIC Discussions|http://community.compuserve.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=ws-naic]] on CompuServ
  • http://www.stockcentral.com/
  • http://earnings.com/ – quarterly company conference calls.
  • http://portableapps.com/
  • http://portablefreeware.com/
  • PDALinks
  • http://pda.jdpfu.com/
  • http://www.jdpfu.com/dr/ – Disaster Recovery Lists for Home Evacuation
  • http://www.zkoss.org/zkdemo/userguide/ – ZK – Simple AJAX/Scripting WOW!
  • http://give.org
  • http://charitynavigator.org
  • http://RetailMeNot.com
  • http://BugMeNot.com

JohnP

Posted by JohnP 08/03/2007 at 15:39

No news on the site maintainer. Sorry.
If you feel that you must email me, take a guess at my email address – good luck with that.
If you want a response, tell me who said, "you got the wrong guy. I’m the Dude, man."

My email this will open a new tab or window.

Sorry about the email hoops. Spam is getting really bad here.

Textile Basics

Posted by JohnP 08/02/2007 at 15:37

Textile formatting tips (advanced)

_your text_→your text
*your text*→your text
%{color:red}hello%→hello
* Bulleted list
* Second item		→• Bulleted list
• Second item
# Numbered list
# Second item		→1. Numbered list
2. Second item
"linkname":URL→linkname
|a|table|row|
|b|table|row|		→Table
http://url
email@address.com		→Auto-linked
!imageURL!→Image

External SATA Enclosures - RAID

Posted by JohnP 08/01/2007 at 15:30

Need an external SATAII Enclosure? Check these guys out Very interesting.

Here’s another player. The DS-500 is an eSATA 5 drive RAID system.

You’ll want a hardware RAID 5 controller card too. Adaptec, LSI Logic, eWare, Highpoint and Raidcore are listed on Tom’s Hardware. Highpoint has linux support for current releases. Promise’s linux support is very dated. I never got Promise to work in HW RAID on Linux.

Data Center Consolidation

Posted by JohnP 08/01/2007 at 15:29

Building a new PC for my home "data center consolidation" effort. Here’s the equipment list (so far):

  • Motherboard: MSI 975X Platinum PowerUP v2 775
  • Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (4mb cache)
  • Video: Gigabyte nVidia 7600GS 256MB Silent Pipe PCI-E 16x (GV-NX76G256D-RH)
  • 2GB CORSAIR VS2GBKIT667D2 DDR2 RAM
  • NEC DL-DVD Writer
  • Motherboard has 7.1 DTS audio, GigE NIC, 2xFirewire, 4xUSB 2.0, 5xSATA2, 3xPIDE, RAID 0, 1, 10 onboard.
  • Antec NeoHE 550W Power Supply (Fry’s had an unbelievable sale!)
    Still needed:
  • External Array – local copy of Cooldrives.com article. I saw a 4 drive bay SATA array at Fry’s for $120. Very interesting….

Intent was originally to use SuSE 10.1 as the VMWare Host OS and drop WinXP, Ubuntu, Fedora, NAS, router/firewall distro and MythTV has Client OS installs. Unfortunately, the drivers for the motherboard, RAID, nVidia and audio are all Win32, so if I want to use any of the high end capabilities, then WinXP needs to be the host OS. I occasionally play games – it isn’t mandatory, but I will not purchase another copy of WinXP for this new box. OTOH, I won’t run an illegal installation on my current Windows PC either. What should I do?