Sunday… wet, wet, wet!
May 13th 2007PeterGetting My Life Back! & Tech stuff
It really is a soggy day here in Hampshire this morning, chucking it down with rain. I have been continuing the final stages of the computer update, with some new applications . Firstly apologies to all who tried to look at the blog last night – I had been adding a new music application to the system which needed an update to the Mysql database. Unfortunately that process stopped the WordPress application that controls the blogs from accessing the database! (To be technical for a moment, the heart of the blog is a database, Mysql, where all the posts, comments and other data is stored and indexed. The actual placing and retrieval of the data is handled by the WordPress software, which runs a scripting language called PHP. So WordPress, PHP and Mysql all have to play nicely together. WordPress takes the data from the database and converts it to HTML pages for the Apache webserver to serve to your browsers (preferably Opera or Firefox!) so Apache has to be PHP and Mysql aware too. And then all these aplications have to be versions that run under the operating system Fedora Core 6.) The new application also uses a Mysql database, but required a newer version, and it was resolving that issue that caused WordPress to stop working. Had I done a clean install from scratch, things would have been a lot easier as all these applications are available pre-packaged, so they all work together staright away, but I wanted to preserve all my old configurations, so it made it a bit harder!
Anyway, the music application is called Amarok and it is excellent! I store all my music on a small network server as mp3 files where it can be accessed from playeers dotted around the house. Amarok catologues all that, plays it, downloads album covers, tracks the most frequently played etc etc. Really good! It will also connect to my Ipod, although I haven’t (yet) figured out how to download podcasts.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, it has just started to thunder, and I feel the need for a bacon sarnie. Actually that might be a bit tricky as my mouth is a bit sore this morning – might have to do with a scandishake! (I had a painful experience two nights ago – we had a chinese takeway – unfortunately one of the dishes contained some chilli – real agony!)
I managed the bacon sarnie, and have been a bit distracted while writing this, so probably time to finish and post it. However it is a while since I posted a photo of Olivia, so here is a recent one! She is growing rapidly – now has an engaging chuckle and is developing baby-talk! fascinating, I just wish I knew what it meant!
Onwards and Upwards!
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Richard on 13 May 2007 at 7:20 pm #
You can see how surprised Olivia is as it is sunny here……………..just on the just
Elspeth on 14 May 2007 at 1:42 am #
Glad all is fixed. O&U. L’n’Hs. E
John on 14 May 2007 at 4:35 am #
Yikes all those complications with the updates has well and trully put me off attempting to set up my own server. As my renewal with my current Web Space Provider is due now i was going to have a go myself but i don’t have that much patience or knowledge.
Nice to see the star of the show putting in an appearance, my, haven’t she grown?
Sadly rain here too, but then again it is Wales, home of the rising rain cloud, so is to be expected.
See Ya!!
Gillian on 14 May 2007 at 12:35 pm #
You know what they say Richard – the sun shines on the righteous (but not on me 🙁 )
kisses
Gillian