I just acquired a new computing toy with which to play. No, not the Raspberry Pie. That’s another nerd toy. But I have something almost as small… I just signed up for the smallest available Amazon Web Service (AWS) Cloud web server. It is a free usage account for a year. I have no real idea what I am going to use it for at this moment other than a sandbox server to play with and...
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Breaking Point
Life can be heck when you are popular, especially if you are popular with the wrong folks. The ISP (Internet Service Provider) that hosts my many websites and blogs sent me a notice yesterday that they had shut down one of my most popular websites because it was using too much CPU resources in the shared host computer in which it is located. My ISP provides unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth, but not unlimited use...
Continue reading...Unstabled – TEDEX
The poor TEDEX horse is about dead. I keep beating on (uh… my brain) trying to get her back up on her feet so she can run again. But when I open the stable for awhile, all the nag will attract is a hoard of flies. That’s a rather crude simile, but it is, what it is. I’ll probably be arrested by the SPCA police (They have TV shows on the subject now.) since in today’s sensitive culture, animals...
Continue reading...Fast Driving With Drupal
I posted an article here in RD about nine months ago saying I was looking into using Drupal7 for possibly building websites. Drupal is a CMS (Content Management System) software like WordPress (this website) and Joomla (many of my other websites). I built one trial site using Drupal and it still exists today. I think nine months is not very fast driving, but I have been playing there lately. I just realized the Drupal icon,...
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