May 22, 2004
To Upgrade...or not?
Well, I finally got around to working on the server upgrades (to Fedora Core 1) at home here...only to discover something peculiar:They won't upgrade!
First off, the older box has a difficult time booting from CD as I 'discovered' today. I'm assuming that it's a BIOS problem, since the drive itself isn't that old. The curious part is that it hasn't had this problem before...so I was beginning to wonder if perhaps there was an underlying media issue (or something of that nature).
Anyway, I decided to skip that box and go to the other; the idea being I could copy the images to disk and do an upgrade directly from disk (instead of via CD)...but I would do the second server before. So, it boots into the setup procedure nicely and does a bunch of stuff...until I get an error about a file (on the CD). As it turns out, the media itself is bad -- two of the three (are confirmed) to have issues on their surfaces which are causing the errors. This I find particularly interesting since I used them in the server reinstallation at work a few weeks ago.
So, I decided to put that project off for just a bit longer. While I don't like the idea, I don't have much of a choice right now aside from downloading new CD images. And since they've released Fedora Core 2, I'll probably just download those images and re-run the upgrade with them.
More Web News
Well, as of yesterday (Friday) afternoon, the user frontend of the work website is complete, valid, and ready to go. The last step of my week was to go through and validate each page with the W3C XHTML validator and fix until happy. After that came the CSS validator, and both are now complete. After I get some new text content to put in place for some of the product pages, we'll be able to go completely live with it.I also took today (Saturday) to work on some of the backend conversion. Fortunately, this only took a few hours (the look changes are quite simple) due to the fact that the backend is mostly PHP and has very little HTML embedded within. It was, however, a good time to go through and do some error checking, bugfixing, and general cleaning.
I didn't complete the backend work -- there's still more to be done (although mostly in fine-tuning the appearance), but something which shouldn't take longer than a day.
House Stuff
Well, while we haven't gotten a bid for the septic upgrade, we have found out the details regarding the change. Fortunately, we're able to use a system which will operate better in our frigid winters (some people have problems with the particular system we don't have to install) and which will also cost roughly $1000-$1500 less to get set up. Hopefully sometime early in the forthcoming week we'll get the bid so we can continue the process...
Until Next Time...
...have a great weekend and enjoy the mid-May weather. Hopefully it's better where you are than here (low 60's, overcast)...This post was upgraded to the MZ Online Blog on 8/25/07