It has been an ugly week for Picayune and my server. First the power supply dying unexpectedly put it out of commission for over a day. Now its software solution known as Blojsom is constantly crapping out by letting Java gobble up practically all the CPU power the host has. This may explain why the more successful Moveable Type, WordPress and Drupal solutions don’t use Java. I’ve also concluded that Java is Sun Microsystem’s practical joke on the other platforms or an accident they let loose on the world like all the invasive species plaguing Australia.
What’s the immediate plan? Thanks to my friend Jeremy who is smarter and more experienced with such matters…more RAM for the Mini. Since the 10.4.11 update, I’ve also noticed an uptick of pageouts. Then I will probably restore it from the back up, tweak it for entries which are missing and cull its QTSS logs from KMAG’s history. This will put Picayune back to 10.4.9 which could be the last good version it ran from. I do hope to install a larger hard drive in it to keep the Mini’s options open. KMAG continues to grow and I figure the stream will need more GigaBytes to store songs as I work toward the long-term goal of 10,000-plus tunes.
Should the simple hardware updates prove to be a bust, then I probably have no choice but to give up the ghost by dumping Blojsom for Drupul. Jeremy and Adam both prefer it for their personal sites along with their businesses. Besides, Jeremy is willing to assist me in customizing it to get it to conform as closely as possible to what I had, namely the calendar and categories. I have browsed over the many themes Drupul has. Some are close. Some also have new features I would love to incorporate such as a poll (trust me, nothing divisive or controversial). Best of all, no Java! It uses the traditional PHP and MySQL which make my head spin.
I’m open to other suggestions. You’ll have to e-mail me, I have turned off commenting in iWeb.
The timeline for this is July, right around the third anniversary of when Picayune switched from an intermittent, old-style, static Web page to the Blog format.