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I just got a new (to me) laptop -- my brother's old hand-me-down Dell Latitude D630.  (He went to the dark side and started using a proprietary operating system.)  I'm currently in the process of wiping off the XP install and installing Fedora 11 (12 doesn't come out for another month).  One of the first steps in any install is to choose a name for the new machine.  (For a fun aside be sure to see the now-crufty

I just helped to found a Drupal development company: Chicago Drupal Authority

Go check 'em out.

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I have completed what I think is a good start to a suite of bash shell scripts that aid in the management of DreamHost customer accounts.

For now, the scripts mainly focus on the creation of backups of important (mainly Drupal) files in the host environment.

See the scripts at http://svn.toddgee.com/dhScripts
See the README at http://svn.toddgee.com/dhScripts/README

This is a list of the standard stuff I do when I initiate a new site.

Install drupal with drupalCVSDeploy.sh

This sets everything else up for ease of future maintenance, etc.

Install standard contributed modules.

I need to create an image gallery for the new Logan Square Walks website.  I surfed around and this page seemed like the easiest approach for what I wanted -- a simple non-nested gallery composed of images that used a neato javascript-powered viewer.

I followed all the steps:

Quite a while ago, when I bought my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop, I knew I wanted to get Linux installed on it.  I am a Fedora guy, and at the time Core 4 was the current distro.

When backing up my laptop, the technique I use most often is to back it up to an encrypted disk partition.  I do this because I don't have to control access to the backup media.  Sometimes this takes the form of a USB hard drive I use for other things.  Sometimes it's a remote file store not under my exclusive control (like the DreamHost 50G backup account).  Using a large file holding an encrypted filesystem image, I can let my backups live anywhere.

I have come up with a standard, scripted method of using these encrypted filesystem files.  See the comments in the script below for more information on how to initiate the filesystem and use the script.  Note the script is attached below for your downloading convenience...

Yet another follow-up post to my post re upgrading from Drupal-5 to Drupal-6. This is a note about upgrading the CCK module.  The module page has a very through discussion on need to update the CCK module before other modules. The easiest way to do this is to

Another follow-up to my post about upgrading from Drupal-5 to Drupal-6.  This note is about the image module.

If upgrading a Drupal-5 site that utilizes the image module, and you follow my directions explicitly, you'll get an error when trying to update the image module.

Call to undefined function image_get_sizes()

See more about this issue here (there are several other duplicate issues linked from that one).

In my post about upgrading from Drupal-5 to Drupal-6, I said I'd post further updates about issues encountered while upgrading certain contrib modules.

Well, I had an issue upgrading the fckeditor module.  I didn't write down the actual error message, but on the update, I received notice of an SQL error that mods to a table couldn't be made.  Turns out some of the tables required by fckeditor never had been created.