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Strategien des Verschweigens: Sich als politische Richter über wissenschaftliche Richter aufspielen

Submitted by Maurice on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 15:53

Ich habe gerade einen Satz in Bourdieus Homo Academicus gefunden, der zum Teil das ausspricht, wofür ich schon länger nach den richtigen Worten suche: B. schreibt angesichts von mehr oder weniger konservativen Kollegen im französischen Wissenschaftsbetrieb der 1960er Jahre

FTP Again

Submitted by Maurice on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 15:55

Really, I can't believe it. I am back to my problems with ftp again. FTP is so limited: the in-built security breach with unencrypted password is only the tip of the iceberg. Today, I realized  that the limitation that you cannot transfer from one remote site to another etc. is most likely built in the protocol specification. What I don't quite get is how so many people (including me) still use it? How can web providers still offer only ftp access and nothing else. And above all, if that is the case why are there not better perl modules for ftp around.

Pixture Reloaded

Submitted by Maurice on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:57
Pixture Reloaded

Pixture Reloaded

Submitted by Maurice on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 23:28
Pixture ReloadedPixture ReloadedHm. I liked Pixture from my first day with drupal. Lately, I had a look at the updated version of Pixture Reloaded. It comes with an optional DHTML menu since recently. Not too bad. But several things bug me, so in this blog, I try to document the changes I make at the theme, so that I could make them again if I have, too ;-). 1. I want the dynamic menu to look more the original one (bold writing). 2. I want secondary links that are independent 3. I more 3d effect on the superfish menu.

Marinelli New Secondary Links

Submitted by Maurice on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 22:49
Marinelli New Secondary LinksMarinelli new secondary links, see /node/1180

Marinelli Theme

Submitted by Maurice on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 22:43
Marinelli New Secondary Links: Marinelli new secondary linksMarinelli New Secondary Links: Marinelli new secondary linksI really like the Marinelli theme by Matteo Leoni. I intend to use it for the new ESEM site. I has few issues with text, that it is not very Drupal compliant.

Also, I think I will need to define some styles to make working with the WYSIWYG editor easier. I need

ftpsync.pl

Submitted by Maurice on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 06:28
I looked at Christoph Lechleitner's ftpsync.pl today. By the way, I am very surprised that there is no CPAN module that does what I want: mirror my website with ease and comfort. The closest I could find on CPAN is NET::FTP::Recursive, but this is still far from what I want - naturally this module doesn't check if file is already present and the time stamp.

This page has moved

This page has moved to its final destination: www.sydneyhutchinson.com

Drupal migrated

Submitted by Maurice on Thu, 12/04/2008 - 08:55
Another personal drupal milestone: For the first time, I migrated a drupal site from one provider to another in real-life circumstances. By the way, I transferred from a multi-site to a single site with absolutely no database problem. Drupal seems to be quite robust.

By far the biggest problem was that the new provider doteasy.com has php register_globals on by default. I had to write them an e-mail so that they turn off that option. It was completely impossible to change any local setting. But they reacted pretty fast, so problem solved.

Drupal Mirror Plans

Submitted by Maurice on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 12:14
I recently set up a simple backup script that downloads my Drupal site and backs it up. The result is a zipped file that I hardly ever look at. Now for backup, but also for testing, it would be much nicer to have a script that mirrors my site as it is this moment to an active environment on localhost. Then you can check if the backup worked and you can easily start experimenting with new stuff (modules) without exposing your production server to any risk.

To get a simple version of this functionality, what were the steps to get this running?
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