ovid21 rebooted 2012-03-24

Ovid, the sys­tem that sup­ports many MySQL servers, was rebooted Sat­ur­day. I’m includ­ing a mes­sage sent to the mysql-users-ovid mail­ing list, which includes addi­tional infor­ma­tion. You can sign up for the list here to receive noti­fi­ca­tions in the future; http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/mysql-users-ovid [This mes­sage is being sent to mem­bers of the mysql-users-ovid mail­ing list because you asked… Read More


SQLite

Dru­pal 7 and Medi­aWiki 1.17 both con­tain out of the box sup­port for SQLite, which is an open-source RMDBS intended for easy setup and light­weight use with­out sig­nif­i­cant over­head. Although I don’t men­tion it in our web pub­lish­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion,  SQLite is sup­ported on our uni­form access sys­tems. If you’re look­ing to test out Medi­aWiki or Dru­pal,… Read More


MediaWiki 1.17.0 Released

The lat­est and great­est ver­sion of the beloved Medi­aWiki soft­ware was released ear­lier this week. The instal­la­tion process is quite dif­fer­ent from the pre­vi­ous ver­sions, and I’m unsure if I agree with their design deci­sions. It seems that the installer forces you to down­load a LocalSettings.php to your desk­top com­puter and then upload it to… Read More