Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 21st, 2007
Some pgSQL browsing on the net:
EnterpriseDB (pg distro)
pgAdmin (pg tools)
EnterpriseDB version of postgres is interesting for windows installations. For Linux I think we just use the repository packages together with e.g. client-tools and pgAdmin III .
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
continued from post 2007-09-19
Carlo also found terrible results with jMeter stress tests on WISP.
I run a test now locally on my debian LAPP and runs smooth as butter. I think I will rewrite the post processing analysis batch to Python (ha!) to make it a bit more flexible and ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Installed questionnaire module for moodle 1.6 on client server via stimulus. Mapped network drive to stimulus server.
Server of client was Suse. Moodle resided in the /srv/www/htdocs/ directory.
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Browsed a bit on the sakai project website. Via via I came across Jython, python written completely in Java. I am now trying to understand what the benefits are of Jython over Python/Java. I guess you can program in Python while using Java classes. In that case we could do ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
I have to setup a documentation strategy to streamline all the knowledge that is available in our group.
I thought to make categories for products, OS, configurations.
Products:
Moodle
Sakai
Blackboard
Hive
QMP
Ideas:
Tips & Tricks
Idea dump
QA:
Performance
Maintenance
Testing
Optimization
Clustering
Monitoring
{en:Single_point_of_failure}
Technology:
Cluster
Database
LVS
Load balancing
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Short workshop / presentation about stresstesting with jmeter and badboy.
Interesting subject; stresstesting.
Setup jMeter on my computer. Got use case scripts from Carlo.
Run use cases on different VMs to get a feeling of the program. Tried different settings for threads.
30 threads with a ramp-up of 120 seconds (stable)
40 threads with a ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
put some time in optimizing WAMP server on VMhost03. Checked moodle website for performance tips and httpd.conf / mysql.conf on moodle01. On the moodle website it states that you should first run a benchmark on the OTTB installed system. Moodle Performance Tips.
Read some threads on the moodle forum . Some ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Asked for ip-address at system-man. Got one: filled in in LAN settings in windows, properties, Internet protocol -> properties, VMWARE set network options to bridged.
Turn off firewall if ping is not possible.
Edited config.php for moodle to adapted to new computer name and ip.
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Tried to connect to a server from Windows Explorer:
VMHOST03\d$
to access the shares of the admin. Did not work immediately so did a recheck for ip:
ipconfig/renew
and a handy cmd line tool to convert FAT to NTFS:
convert g: /FS:NTFS
Tried to connect USB device to W2K3 server, connected ok but some tips:
if device ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Installed RSS Reader and included some feeds (tweakers.net, jroller,serverside,computable) to stay updated on the latest tech news.
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