Computers
Category Mod for WP Loop
On several different occasions I’ve found the need to modify the WP Loop to produce a desired effect….such as only retrieving posts from a certain category. You can find many examples of how to do this by simply doing a Google search. The most common mod I’ve found is this:
<?php query_posts(’category_name=special_cat&showposts=10′); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!– Do [...]
The Phenix Returns!!!
The PhenixbluE returns (DUH! if you’re reading this!!!). Sorry for the downtime folks, but Mother Nature didn’t really give myself or Mediacom forwarning or much of a choice! Service was restored sometime this morning, and a quick restart of services got everything back up and running smooth. Thanks for your patience, and I hope you [...]
Aqua Connect Terminal Server
Any Sys Admin over a Windows Terminal Server would be able to tell you how great a Terminal Services (TS) environment can be regarding Application Management, OS patches, Group Policy, etc. Having served suitable time as such, I can personally attest to the increased efficiency of centralized management. You need to install Photoshop for 50 users, install [...]
Future Plans for Web Server
I have already tweeted a generic request for anyone with experience/expertise in the following areas:
Remote data Replication
Remote Load Balancing
Remote Failover
The ideal setup would be to have 1 web server (Server A) at ground zero that dynamically replicates it’s files to another web server (Server B) 20-100 miles away, while simultaneously sharing the load across the [...]
Unexpected Downtime
Yesterday a little before 3:00pm EST this site and all associated went down for roughly 4 hours. This outage appears to be the fault of my ISP (Mediacom) as the web server, dns, dhcp, main router, etc. were all in operation when I arrived on site. After examining the logs from the various systems, I [...]
