Today did not start our so well, my client ran out of home directory space. Not that this was unexpected. Yesterday I noticed we were down to 20GB of shared space. Sounds like a lot, given that there are less than 100 people and this is unix home directory stuff. I went out a warning that we were running out of space and it was time to do some clean up.

I may as well look at changing the whole colour scheme and logo. The current one was something I put together in a hurry one night and while servicable, it could use an improvement. If anyone wants to try their hand at a logo, feel free. We can even vote on it. I may even be able to provide an O’Reilly book as an incentive. I’m partial to the soft Blue tones, but looking at some themes on other sites, there are many other things that can be done.

I’ve found enough information on converting from Drupal to Wordpress to make it worth the effort. Once done, the directory structure and the setup seem to be much more intuitive that the Drupal interface. Who knows? Maybe I’m just lazy. Seriously though, the site has gone through 3 revisions over the years and a couple of mailing lists. Interestingly enough, I still have all of the data, even from the first days (written in MS Front Page) and a yahoo group for the mailing list.

As most of you know by now, we are pushing the July meeting out a week so it will not conflict with Blues Fest. July’s Topics: Kelly will be doing one on VMware and NetApp storage Scott will be showing an “ignite talk” There may be a third presentation time permitting 19:00 at Pythian

It seems I’m a bit verbose this week. First, my ISP is still having problems letting me send email from my servers. I am of the opinion that rebooting a cisco router multiple times a day in the vain hope that I will get the port unstuck is a bit much to expect. So far, no response to my question as to how much longer I will have to put up with this.