Archive for April, 2008

The Time to Upgrade LAN to 1 GBit but how ?

Two month ago i bought out a Western Digital My Book World Edition II to save my downloads and keep my archives in a single media to quick access. My version of My Book is created for LAN usage. It has no USB connection directly to PC ( It has a USB port but it’s for data storage ). So you have to transfer files from LAN using your ethernet cable.

The problem starts here.

I’m using a 100Mbit LAN at my home. My switch is a 100Mbit switch. My other two PC’s can 1Gbit but because of my switch i use them in 100Mbit mode. And my laptop… It has 100Mbit connection also.

You can say that why you do not prefer to upgrade your switch and buy out a PCMCIA port for your laptop. I can’t. But this impossibility is not dedicated to my fault. It’s because in my country to follow technology beyond most people can not be! I searched all markets, shops, internet shops but i have no chance on finding a PCMCIA cart for my laptop and a 1Gbit switch.

So what are you doing you say.

I’m trying to reach nirvana while i’m sending 45GB of fresh downloaded DVD’s, Archives, Education Videos (It’s a huge set consisting of so many legal ( and some illegal ) things ) to my storage drive. I hope this patience will be raise my rank on the God’s eyes.

Patience must be first virtue in computer related world i think. If not i’ll be confused of my time which i spent on waiting data transfers using 100Mbit connection!

Alternative PDF Reader For Windows

I don’t know why but my laptop is uncompatible with Adobe PDF Reader. I try to examine the cause, lost lots of many time but cannot found out a solution. My Problem was the adobe updater. Whenever i start Adobe Pdf Reader to view a document adobe updater agent comes front and started to aet all unused CPU time. And also it is a un-endable process.

At last i was tired of this process cycle and tried to search for a fine alternative. I found Foxit PDF Reader. I’m using it for two months now. It’s a very little and rapid program. I cannot see the difference between adobe reader. “A reader is a reader” is the main point of my philosophy.

I can freely suggest you to use that program if you’re tired of adobe updater.

Multiple Subdomains with Plesk and Apache for Drupal and Wordpress Mu

I’m using Wordpress Mu and Drupal in some of my sites.

But when you want to use wordress mu and use drupal as a service for multiple subdomains you need to do some changes on configurations of server. ( In here i must thank to one of my friend )

Here’s how you do it on a plesk powered server :

1. There’s a folder in named conf in the domain you want to configure. The path will be like this : /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf. Create a file with a name vhost.conf to there (using pico vhost.conf for ex). Write a line ServerAlias *.domain.com in it. And save it.

2. Open plesk. Go to domain’s DNS settings. Add an A record *.domain.com

After all run this command : /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -v -a

That’ll help.

Extracting Plesk Backups

Last day i need to extract one of my site’s plesk backup. I tried the “open it with your email client” solution but it can’t help me. (I’m using The Bat! as email client). So i searched and find an effective solution.

There are two same programs to do it. One is ripmime. But in my debian server i’ve mpack tools. So i’ve extract with second way using mpack tools ( Document mirror on focusoncode.com )

It works fine except mySQL unicode problem. I want a world that has no character encoding problems like two or more years ago…