Monday, December 31, 2007
Still sick. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Set up an rsync between the iMac and the Mac Mini. I initially tried to do this with Automator, but Automator didn't seem to have an option for a synch like rsync—I could copy files, but deleted files or folders on the source would not be deleted. In Automator, I could have had it wipe out all the directory contents, then do the copy, but that would be very inefficient. Just use rsync. Learned how to use RsyncX, but realized after generating my script that I didn't really need it. One problem I had setting up Apache on the iMac was that I needed to chmod a+x the root folder of the website. Without that, I got the error message "Forbidden - you don't have permission to access / on this server." Thanks to Geek Boy (Peter Clark) for providing on July 17, 2007 the answer I needed! I had planned to rearrange computing equipment yesterday, but it didn't happen—not enough time. Instead, it begins now, and there will be some downtime for frankfarm.org. Removed and reorganized computers. Much nicer now. Napped. Showered. Went to Phil, Danny, and Drew's New Year's Eve party. Afterwards Patrick and I had a pretty lousy meal at Sparky's. It was 2 AM on New Year's Day, and let's just say Sparky's was not operating at its best.