Lester's Rants

If these Advanced Idiots are supposed to improve productivity then they have a LONG way to go. I have been playing with areas of the bitweaver framework which have been broken for some time and endeavouring to replace the gaps with more modern alternatives. One area has been the displaying of pdfs in the gallery system. Originally this was provided by a flash based option but when that was killed off, and the browsers took over displaying them directly, the display within a page has been miss…

Perhaps this is not really a rant, since actually I have managed to address most of the niggles that have grown up over the last couple of years. Today things are ACTUALLY looking good and even a reboot of the desktop is less that a minute where it was taking that time simply to shut down, and then a few minutes to reboot. The servers are almost sub 10 second from hitting reboot now to logging back in so the desktop should not be too much longer.
So the first aggro was the drive to ret…

The continual drive to 'improve' things is simply counter productive if one looses the core functionality that we have had for 30+ years now. I first started using SUSE linux back in the version 5/6 days nearly 30 years ago. The disks only went in the recycling recently as I try to downsize an excess of historic material. I switched from the openSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed as it offered better control of things like the PHP builds and more recent other packages which were not easily suppo…

I'm making progress on a lot of fronts, but one area that is irritating is the way AI Bots are so utterly thick when it comes to crawling some types of website. GPTBot is currently 95% of my traffic, but all it is doing is trying every possible combination of search on my family tree in phpgedview. It has probably download essentially the same data many thousands of times to the point where I've currently switched off it's access via robots.txt. We will see how long it takes to co…

It has been a while since I actually wrote down my rants. Mainly due to fighting medical problems over the last several weeks. I've now got the problem with my left arm under control, but it's still giving a bit of jipp. Just need to keep things moving while it recovers and the GP physio was little help with that! But that is another rant for the health blog.

I decided as a new year 'resolution', although it's more of an old TODO item, to finally do something abo…