Edugis2 died today 14Dec06 | 0

My main project, www.edugis.nl, has had a major blow. The shiny new server www2.edugis.nl died today. It was highly tweaked and was showing incredible performance. We were just about to set up a backup and sync routine with the old server www1.edugis.nl.

Note the just bit; there are no backups of all the tweaks, most of them we still know, so it should be possible to recreate them in a few days, but due to holidays it might take several weeks before we have it up and running again and syncing with the other server. So we’ve adapted DNS to point www.edugis.nl to the old server again, which is qutie fast as well, but just not as fast as the other :’(

Wiser man and smarter IE 11Dec06 | 0

In other news, I solved me fight with IE6 today by being the wiser man. I gave up on my fancy layout for the new mapbuilder examples and agreed with IE6 that a less cooler version is much better.

IE7 however is a much smarter browser, so I liked to test it there as well. Apparently, however, IE7 is too smart for its own good. It doesn’t want to show me a webpage. For the record, the (virtual) computer was connected and I could access the site with another browser.
IE being too smart Maybe it has a build in filter that knows which pages are dangerous to the user, since FF did work on the same computer and showed non-dangerous sites without a problem.

Home movies 11Dec06 | 0

I finally got time to sort out how to turn my 3000 photos into stopmotion movies. I was hoping to do this under ubuntu, but couldn’t find a stable enough app that could combine the photos, scale them down and turn them into a movie.

I tried stopmotion and pitivi, but the first didn’t let me scale down and the second, well didn’t let me do anything. So far for the first linux video-creation attempt. So I turned to vmware player and installed virtualdub under windows and scp’d the photos there and created the movies.

Walls of the livingroom

Floor of the livingroom

Floor of the hallway

Floor of the sleepingroom

Replacing the kitchen

Finishing the kitchen (I wish..)

New home, new blog 09Dec06 | 0

Now the blogging hype has subsided a bit, I can start blogging again. I’ve finally got my own place in Amsterdam and a decent server to run some basic stuff.

I’m planning to run an instance of geoserver for my mapbuilder development, my own svn rep, my gallery and obviously this blog. That should keep the server busy at night :)