RasterWeb!A long time ago (in a state far, far away…) Ekwipment was released by our pals at Friday Morning:
Ekwipment is a lightweight PHP/MySQL engine for adding job listings to a website.
And that is what it does… I was asked to test it out, and if you actually read the docs, the install is pretty easy. I did a bit of testing and it worked pretty well. Of course I am not putting job listings on my site, but if you are, take a look at it, and bug them to add the features you want or need…
The folks at Plazes finally launched Plazes for Mobile Phones, so life is good… (See: Plazes goes mobile)
Now us geeks that do not travel around with laptops using wifi on a daily basis, but do have a decent mobile phone can join in on the fun.
I’ve only been running it for a day now, so I can’t give much of a review yet, but it’s a fairly simple (and well done) Series 60 application. Installing and running it is easy as heck. (You don’t even need to install Python.)
Now if they can just make their badge available in valid XHTML, I might use it. :)
This is a subject I’ve been meaning to write about for a long time, and Meg touched on it recently: Can a Recipe Be Stolen?
I like making things in the kitchen, mainly food, and a lot of times I use sites like Recipe*zaar, where it’s common to see people add comments like "I got this recipe from" followed by some food show, or cookbook, or box of whatever. Now, this is something I wouldn’t do, but then again, I’m a Creative Commons geek, and I believe in the rights of the creators, and wouldn’t just take someone else’s work and republish it (to a world-wide audience) without making sure it’s ok to do. (This view probably represents 0.0001% of the people who use sites like this.)
I make my own pizza crusts, and the recipe I use is from some magazine I can’t remember… I ripped out the page about 4 years ago, and eventually added it into my home wiki (where I keep many of my recipes) for use when I need it. I won’t publish it, because I’m sure I don’t have the rights to do so. It may be like 100 other pizza crusts recipes, but still, I didn’t create it.
I don’t have any answers to this problem, other than everyone adopting Creative Commons licenses, but even those have their own set of problems…
This morning I just couldn’t sleep… It’s not even 5 AM, so what do I do? Get up and start working… One problem…
After a bit of panic, I took care of things that I really needed to take care of on my own computer, like entering contact info into Address Book, and file management, and backups, etc. Hmmm, maybe I should disconnect at least once a week.
Ahh, things are back to normal, the connection has been restored. (Thought I still have that Javascript-powered Gallery to write…)
I’m working with a small company to determine what file server and backup solutions might fit their needs. Here is what I’ve come up with so far…
They are a small group all located in one office, so for a file server, nothing too big/costly should be needed. My first thought was a Linksys NSLU2. The pros of the NSLU2 are that it is cheap and simple to set up and administer. It seems ideal for this situation. They would need to add their own external USB drives, which is not a big deal, as they’ve already got a bunch of those in the office. Are there any cons to the NSLU2? Other than the fact that it formats the filesystem of the external drives as something you can’t plug directly into your Mac, I don’t know of any…
Instead of the NSLU2, they could use an old PowerMac G4 that is on hand and not doing much. They could still plug in the external USB (and Firewire) drives, and keep them formatted as-is so they could be moved to another Mac if needed. Internal drives could also be used if desired. The pros of the G4 are that they already have it, it could use internal and external drives, and could be a more full-fledged server (print, http, etc.) The cons to the G4 is that management would not be as simple, and it’s more/bigger hardware with more/bigger failure points.
For an off-site backup solution, I’m seriously looking at Amazon’s S3. I’ve been using it for myself since it launched, and I think with a simple client like Jungle Disk or Interarchy, they could easily create off-site backups at a very affordable price. They do a lot of large files for print, as well as audio & video production, so Amazon’s pricing is excellent.
So what do you think? Did I miss anything?