Well... I've been trying to get a movie for my wife put together and burned to CD in SVCD or even VCD formats... and neither seem like they're working for me... I've tried a bunch of different ways of doing it, and none of them seem to work... I don't really understand why its so difficult really... I thought it was a standardized format... which is why most if not all DVD players were able to play them....
Guess I was wrong.
I've been working on it all day today... I rewote the style sheet from scratch for my theme, as well as changing quite a bit of the template. I still have to move the changes to the rest of the template files. But that shouldn't be to difficult....
So, what do you think?
Well, I've been saying I was going to do it for months (or years?) that I was going to update my blog... so now maybe I'll keep it up to date. Anyway, this is it! Its not done by any means. But these are the colors I'm going to be using and I'm going to work on a unified theme for the bookmarks as well. (or maybe i'll rewrite it? who knows) Anyway, this, I'm almost positive, is its final incarnation.
And, as a bonus, comments work! (I don't ever remember them working before... atleast I hope thats why no one ever left me one...)
and more to come.
Ok,
I don't get it... is dhcp the red headed step child of all IT services? I mean the lack of managment tools for it is rediculous. After reading tons of docs, and the DHCP Handbook(2nd edt.) and even more forum postings... it seems that its annoying enough that it would be nice to get it fixed... but no one seems to have any kind of solution. A little more about what I'm refering too... I would like a script that parses through the dhcpd.leases file and either out puts totals of various lease information based on criteria I specify. OR does a straight dump to a database, and then can be queried in anyway needed. I would think this isn't an uncommon request, just no one has done anything about it, because it will be a HUGE pain.
Honestly... I don't think it would be THAT hard to accomplish this. However, I understand that the dhcpd.leases file isn't kept in the best format for such a thing.
Anyway, this is what I'm thinking. Two scripts, First(1) would be an initialization script of such. Basically it would be to initialize the database and update IP's. Anytime the you added a pool or changed a range of IP's, this script would to be run. Its purpose would be to look at all the ranges in the dhcpd.conf file, and create the rows in a table for EACH ip in those ranges(creating a defacto list of ALL ips the DHCP server is going to be serving). Then the Second(2) script would be cron'd to run every 5 min or however often you wanted it to run. It would then parse through the dhcpd.leases file, and for every IP, it would update that lease information into that IP's row in the database(that is why the IP would be the defacto... as there should only be one listing of it). I am uncertain at this moment, if an IP will be listed more than once in the dhcpd.leases file. As I don't know if the DHCP server always creates a new entry everytime it does something with a particular lease, and how often it removes them if that is the case. (hope that makes sence... for me in the future...), anyway, if all it has to do is do a update on that IP's row in the DB, creating a web app to parse through that information is trivial.
Anyway... just another project I've come up with that would make my job easier...
K, at work it would be very usefull if I had a system information/management web app for all the servers I'm over at work. While I'm thinking about it, I need to write down some of the things it should do. (I'm writing my own because I don't like the current ones out there)
- Store System Info (Name, DNS host names, IP, Subnet, Rack, Maker/model, serial num, service num, Purpose, apps installed, maintenance info, and anything else that might come up)
Should have a page that allows for a scripted update of the hosts file (ie: out put localhost, and all the other systems(or group of systems) in the DB with the IP boxname dns host name.)
What would be nice, is enough information, that the box could be duplicated without even needing access to it. (creating a kickstart based off installed apps and such)
Thats all I'm thinking about right now... and I hope thats enough detail that when I revisit this idea(when I actually have time to revist, in the process of redoing DHCP, DNS and Upgrading systems to RHEL3 right now...) that I can remember all that I'm thinking about right now.
I'm still thinking about design changes, and hoping bblog is as extenable as it says it is... because I plan on doing alot of modifications to it. I guess the biggest problem I have with it right now, is the fact that it doesn't have any session control with the main section of the site... *shrug* other than that... time will tell.
Ooooh, I just thought I'd post again as I'm just getting ready to go to bed now.
But, this templating is going to be MUCH easier than I had thought it was going to be... truth be told... I thought it was going to be somewhat of a pain... I really need to look more into smarty!! I should be using it on all my projects at work too! Dave's going to hate me if I tell him he should as well... :)
Anyway, colors are comming together nicely, (i know... they kinda stand out don't they? yellow, orange, dark gray and black) but I like them. Also, my news feeds!!
Anyhow, its bed time.
Well,
I've downloaded some of the latest themes from CVS, and have decided that none of them are very good... So... I've changed the theme to a one called "green" as it has somewhat of the layout I want, I am just going to make a copy of it, and edit from there. I hope to keep it useable in the process... This will be my first project using php's smarty, so its going to be a learning experience.
This is my first post... There will be many more now that I have this. I think I like it alot. It still doesnt have stuff to allow me to mark things as private... but thats ok for now.
first things first however... I NEED A NEW THEME!!
I think I'm going to basically rework the look to be exactly like it was on the previous site. But time will tell.
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
- Helen Hayes
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