Mission Penguin

Thought some would find this interesting... it started out as a simple attempt to automate DBCopy backup operations for GroupWise.  It gradually grew into an interactive backup utility based around NFS, Hard Links, and DBCopy.  I probably should have done it in Perl but by the time I realized that the script was already too far along.

Enjoy I suppose.

This morning I received a phone call from the illustrious Bub. He was going on about his recent job prospects and a prior interview he had this morning. During the interview he asked what format would they like his resume in. Invariably Microsoft Word's ubiquitous .DOC was the reply. Bub quickly mentioned that he uses OpenOffice spurring much blank stares and confused expressions. Somewhat expecting this, Bub attempted to explain. Realizing that the interviewer did not care in the slightest he quickly stopped, only to vent to me later. Why is it that more people aren't aware of quality open source software?

I was looking for a replacement to BBClone touted as "A PHP based Web Counter on Steroids." We've been using BBClone for about 18 months now, and it's worked very well for our small corporate website.

It does your basic reporting, it shows basic client information including IP address, (resolved to a hostname) country of origin, Operating System, Browser, and on and on. Yawn.

I never thought I'd utter those words, but I'll be throwing Ubuntu on a machine intended for Grandma in the next week or so.Not my grandma, but a Grandma nonetheless.  I'll throw a brief article up describing the hardware, previous OS, motivations to upgrade, and her learning curve.I won't spend too much

I can't believe it is that time already. Ohio LinuxFest 2007, in Columbus Ohio (obviously), begins Saturday September 29th, 2007. I'll definitely be in attendance. It should be a fun time for those who can make it. I've looked through the speakers, and I must say that several talks sound interesting. Last year was great. I met interesting people, learned interesting stuff, and drank a fair share of excellent libations.

I'm looking forward to picking up right where ver 0.9 left off.

I've made progress on the Auto PC, including wiring details for the Sony controller interface and the 12volt car friendly PSU.  I've also been tweaking on the Arcade machine some of you are familiar with and of course I will soon be swapping my current MythTV solution with a more comprehensive LinuxMCE solution.

With Krondors blessing I hope to post details about all of those projects and more.  I'll keep an eye out for further restores of Mission Penguin content.

As you can see Mission Penguin is finally getting some attention from me. I know that the two of you who actually visit my site will be thrilled. There's a lot of work to be done still, and I do plan on moving over the old content. We'll see how successful that is. At any rate I think everyone will be pleased with the final product.