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Tue, Aug 12, 2008

Denvention and Marrakesh

Posted at 9:56 pm MDT to Travel

The panel discussions at Denvention were wonderful, but I have to admit that we weren't impressed by some other aspects of the convention. The art show and Masquerade were disappointing compared even to some regional conventions I've been to in the past. And the Dealers' room was small compared to the ones I remember from past conventions, though that didn't stop me from spending a lot of money on filk CDs and book from smaller publishing companies.

Food was a problem, too. What was available in the Convention Center was limited in variety and hideously over-priced. And even at a good deli, I had trouble finding anything I could eat for breakfast Friday morning.

Saturday we made a quick trip back to my house to fill Dinah's cat-feeder and to run an errand for Nanette's husband, so I ate breakfast at home. Sunday breakfast for Nanette was a capucchino and for me was a mediocre smoothie.

We got the the convention near lunchtime, which we skipped on Thursday, We had hotdog cart hotdogs on Friday (discarding the bun and Saturday, and real food at my house on Sunday afer we left the convention.

For dinners we went out: to Z Cuisine for our memorable meal on Thursday and for a quick meal at QDoba before the Masquerade on Friday.

On Saturday evening, we spent some time exploring the LoDo end of the 16th Street Mall, and found a very nice Moroccan place: Marrakesh Restaurant. The food was excellent and there were plenty of dishes for me to choose from (I clearly need to learn more Mediterranean cooking). And Saturday is one of the evenings they have a belly dancer: she was very good too.

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Migration 2

Posted at 8:40 pm MDT to Technology

It has taken a long day, but I now have VMWare and the LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl) stack working on the new laptop. My development copies of my blog and the CGI programs I have worked on for the company website are now accessible using the new laptop's local web server.

I really wish Debian and Ubuntu would leave the apache2 config files the way they are described in the actual apache documentation. And I'm not sure why the configuration that was working on the old laptop (Ubuntu 8.04 that got there by way of upgrades) doesn't quite work on the new laptop, which started out as Ubuntu 8.04.

And they really need a reliable way to configure apparmor so that mysql can have its data in a non-default location. I had to block apparmor from affecting mysql to get things to work.

I have all the data that is likely to change and needs to be backed up in /home: /home/mysql, /home/www, /home/vmware, but the config files aren't nearly as cooperative as they should be about setting things up that way.

Tomorrow I'll go into the office and load the Windows images I will need for testing the new application I need to develop.

Tonight I'm going to download a 32bit Centos image for the UNIX side of the development and testing and get that loaded into VMWare. I'm also going to rsync /home and /etc back up to the server, so I have a record of things in a working state. I should dump a list of the installed packages, and back that up to0.

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