What do I hope to get out of PERSPECTIVE?

Monday, February 13, 2006

My objectives are to get a running wiki up on my luggable and my worktop.

Both have to be true wikis even though they may not be always online since I’ll be hosting them on notebooks.

I have to also remember that I have all sort of obsolete hardware that might be able to be brought up in support. The problem is that wireless router at home and the firewalls at work.

Assuming that I could get the PERSPECTIVE running “right”, (It works; the problems are mine.) then something might appear to be “do-able”.

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Playing with the PERSPECTIVE wiki

Monday, February 13, 2006

Following up my failed test, attempting to have Frenchy in NC access and update the wiki, I figured I try again on the same subnet. Addressing it as http://192.168.1.100 from 101 works. Hmm. On the morrow, I’ll repeat the test at work and see if it works across the dirty and clean networks. If that works or doesn’t work, put the luggable up on the VWBBie and try again. If both work, I’m befuddled. If either works, I’m befuddle. If neither works, then at least it’s consistent results. Arghh!

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Why am I interested in wikis?

Saturday, February 11, 2006

A wiki is the essence of collaboration. If I put all my thinking in a wiki and I give others access to it, then together we can build on it. You would enter your comments or unique pages. Over time, it becomes the logical addition of all our collaborations.

The idea of a wiki has many implementations. Some free; some pay. Most on Linux; a few on Windoze; one on Mac; a couple that are platform agonistic. My goal is to have a free wiki running here at home to allow collaboration on
my projects. If I can do it, it becomes one of my marketable skills!

Thanks for the help. It really did work from my desk at work; the same setup as we tried! And, of course, it works from home here, but that’s not a real test because it was on the same subnet. It’s only usefull if it can be hosted to the internet globally.

 

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Testing my wiki in NJ from NC — failure

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Test results
1) For whatever reason, I couldn’t have a GTalk conversation riding on the Verizon Wireless BroadBand. Not to convict VWBB, but is the new thing in the equation.

2) You couldn’t “see” http://reinkefj.shancknet.nu but then neither could I from where it should have resolved to. Interesting? Since I did it at work one day, I suspect the DynDns Dynamic DNS service shacknet.nu. It’s free so I can complain too much.

3) Frustrating when you can not see what is happening. 

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TECHNOLOGY: The wiki phenom

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Amazing how many useful ones there are out there.

WIKIs on the Internet

The Clearinghouse http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Putting the “PERSPECTIVE” wiki on my work notebook

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Now you’d think since I got it on my personal notebook, this would be trivial. Wrong. Several bumps. Right now I’m stuck trying to add antoehr user. Sigh. Nothing’s every easy.

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Updated the “big turkey” site

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/TURKEY/index.htm

It required me to recognize that I couldn’t make microsoft publisher publish turkey directly to the web. So … … I published to the luggable and filezillaed to the site.

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BACKUP because recovery is hard without the data!

Monday, February 6, 2006

One of the advantages of a home lan COULD be that you can automagically back up all the data on your primary machine to an old machine. In my case, my primary is this dell luggable, not loveable, and my “old” machine is in my garage. A free directory synchronizer like AllWaySync (http://allwaysync.com) or Karen’s Replicator (http://www.karenware.com), both FREE, can sync your primary machine to the secondary.

p.s., Because I am a belt and suspenders guy, I do make a monthly copy of my data on cd, put it on top of my mom’s refridgerator, and I still worry! 

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Reproducing a directory structure consistently

Monday, February 6, 2006

Following up on my idea of an “annualized” directory structure, I want to have the underlying directory structure built quickly and easily. SO … … going back to my old batch days it’s real easy to create a batch file in the root that does all the md’s (make directory) you need. “md x md y md z” I’m going to use the topcial as lower case and the people ones with the letter z. The the topics will sort to the top and the people to the bottom.

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Organizing the plethora of files that one has.

Monday, February 6, 2006

My latest thinking on directory organization is by “year” and then by topic. I reserve the year “0000” for the things that will never change and always be necessary to keep around. So, for example the scan of my drivers license in stored under \000\FJR and so I’ll always be able to find it when I need my DL number for all the dumb forms. It goes along with my concept of scanning everything. I am buried in paper and it’s a way of fighting back.

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