Category: technology

Despite what I’d been told, moving Movable Type was an absolute doddle 😀. I followed the following steps, just in case any of my friends have to do it and aren’t sure how to go about it.

1. tar the MT directory
2. mysqldump the mt database using the command line or cPanel
3. Untar the mysql database to the new director structure on the new server
4. restore the mysql database on the new server
5. recreate the database user account on the new server with the same name priviledges and password (or use new settings & go to next step
6. update the mt.cfg file located in the MT cgi-bin director with revised settings for hostname, directories, database, user and password.
7. and your off

Hope I’ve been of assistance.

I’ve consistently seen download speeds over 250 kbps over the past week but today I saw 320 – 340 maintained for over 30 seconds in the middle of a long download. After less than a week of using it I’m completely hooked. I’m using the service to monitor various servers we’ve installed in remote locations. Therefore I can’t afford downtime. My previous eircom service sometimes went down, often due to wireless router rather than ADSL problems but the net effect is the same. The consistency of speed and quality of this service over the past week has been remarkable. That’s a huge thumbs up from me (y) 😉

I’ve just gotten NTL broadband at home, signing up for the 3Mbps offering which is very nice indeed. So far I’m seeing download speeds of around 70 kbps which is a bit slow to be honest but I understand that the service isn’t quite working to maximum capacity yet. I’m willing to wait. It’s worth it after 3 successive wireless broadband providers failed to hook me up citing the usual reasons of

• too busy to look at it yet as we’re trying to grab all the customers eircom has disappointed with the lack of ADSL availability
• too poor a signal
• no line-of-sight
• too many trees
• wrong star sign
• eyes are the wrong colour
• wrong time of the month
• yadda, yadda, yadda

Anyway, the NTL cable modem is neat and tasty and hooks nicely up to my linksys wireless router. However, a word of warning. If you want to retrofit a wireless router to your installation you may have to MAC spoof as the DHCP lease for your location is obviously based on MAC. My linksys router supports this via “cloning”. NTL installation staff aren’t exactly clueful on this front so you’ll have a lot of messing around to do if don’t pick up the problem straight away. Other than that’s it’s a straight “obtain IP automatically” installation. A word of warning about the Linksys WRT54G router though. The firmware upgrade to v 3.1 is essential for security reasons and its interoperability with NETGEAR 54g cards is less than sensational for anything less than basic WEP. (it doesn’t work)So kids my router is mac restricted, much good it will do me

I’ve recently bought the rather snazzy Nokia 9300 smart phone. This is the tool-de-force (sic) for the roaming sys admin combining features like bluetooth & tri-band with a usable qwerty keyboard. In my opinion it’s more attractive, compact and lighter than my trusty XDA so all-in-all I’m very happy with my new purchase. However I need to find a new home for my XDA-2. Rather than leave it gather dust I’m selling my 10 month old model in it’s original packaging and including a bluetooth headset for around 400 euro. Sensible lower offers will be considered. Drop me a mail if you’re interested.