Server setup hints

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 11:50 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:

> 7. What about blog and cms options for the future? Has anyone analyzed
> any of these packages to determine how easy it is to convert to a
> different database backend? It's doubtful that any of the packages
> offer Oracle as a choice, so which ones have the database accesses
> properly modularized such that you can easily replace the
> MySQL/Postgres stuff with Oracle equivalents?
> 
> 8. Any other gotchas you can think of?
> 

For starts, and keep in mind that this was 5 years ago when I worked for
RedHat (yeah I'm the guy that used haiku's and burma shave knockoffs in
the subject lines to reply for service requests... notice I'm not
working there anymore either!) ...the entire frontend for the Tech
Support system was Oracle. Back then we had to cut n paste using abiword
between Oracle and Netscape. Sure, we surfed the web for answers, cut n
pasted them into the reply!! Couldn't know every darn thing ya know. But
Oracle didn't like Netscape and neither could Cut N Paste between them.
Stuck abiword in a window, and used that as a clipboard, which was
maddening. So, there is that. Maybe not a problem anymore, but now you
have an answer if the question occurs. 

Then, the frontend to Oracle was slower than molasses in Winter, but it
did have a unique feature... you set up ssl in your home directory and
at your home residence machine. Then you used cipe to tunnel your
connection and after a few minutes (using real modems back then) you got
your screen at your workstation at work on your home screen, live and
waiting for you to get that cup of coffee while still in your boxer
shorts. <scratch scratch> <sniff> 

That was pretty neat. Oracle will work the hindmost parts of your
harddrive pretty hard. You may wish to ask them about filesystems that
they might recommend, if you're to be delivering a lot of data at some
future point. 

There's something in the works that is already beginning to affect me
with the new kernels, they're using /dev/hda for sata drives instead
of /dev/sda and this occurred after I installed FC5, but the new kernels
that pop in at night have started to play havoc with my entire setup. No
clue who did it, nor how, but it's like a damn virus in my machine.
Somehow my /boot is now reported to be on /dev/hda1 which is supposed to
be /dev/sda which is really my Dvd burner. Go figure. My harddrive is
the second device which is /dev/sdb, /boot is someplace it cannot be and
this damn Volgroup scheme makes me crazy. 

I know I'll have to re-install, the harddrives are running slower for
this re-direct business and ext3 just ain't solid for the dinking with
it and the kernel... without my permissions either, so it may as well be
called a virus. So, there were comparisons made in this group I believe
about the merits of different file systems. Not sure I trust ext3 and
VolGroup for anything commercial anymore. Maybe go SCSI so no one can
mess up the hardware, it's too settled in to be "improved" upon by a
committee who doesn't talk to me! Then put the filesystem of choice to
it for your Oracle needs. 

Tell Brother Larry Ellison that I need a grant, out here in the wilds of
North Caralaki. I want to afford tall cold drinks with taller straws and
sit in my boxers cursing whoever is dinking with my installation, and be
writing poison pen letters. It would be for the Good of us All, you see,
something like several tens of Grands would suffice. My needs are small.
Ric

p/s whatever happened to the BBS systems? Might as well have called them
blogs as they did basically the same thing. With one of them running,
you could play Red Dragon in ASCII color text. <chuckles>  


  



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