Apple's Boot Camp does not officially support Windows XP on computers shipped with OS X 10.7 ("Lion").  Keep reading for instructions on installing Windows XP on a late 2011 MacBook Pro.

The Problem: I need to backup remote websites that have lots of files.  I want to have incremental snapshots, so that I can have multiple backups of the same site without wasting lots of disk space.  In other words, I want Apple's Time Machine for websites.

The Solution: I knew that the familiar rsync program could copy files from a server to my home computer.  So I Googled and came across Michael Jakl's excellent Time Machine for every Unix out there.  I've expanded his script and provided my results here, so that you can use it too.  Read on for more info, and to download the script.

After messing around with lots of fun configuration, I think my email system is working properly. I'm using a combination of Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL, RoundCube, and OpenLDAP to provide email services for johnwoltman.com. This lets me use a better webmail client than 1and1's craptastic "WebMail 2.0," and I can do do away with quotas because there's so few actual mailboxes.

The time has come to move TPI forward.  After trying Eclipse, .NET, Excel, and Access as user interfaces for a data entry system, I have decided to use Drupal.  Why?

What, you may ask, is a document management system?  A document management system, or DMS, is, essentially, a high-tech file server.  You can open documents like reports, pictures, or spreadsheets from it, and you can save those same documents back to it.  In this aspect, it is the same as a Windows CIFS share, a UNIX NFS mount, or a WebDAV folder.  Where it differs is also where it becomes interesting.

Let me be frank: the way we manage documents at my office is horrible. We have a central file server, but some people don't like to use it, while others tend to abuse it.  It's a real mess with long email chains of Word and Excel files being sent back and forth, and no one really knowing where or what the final version of any given document is.  Since we're a small company we don't have a lot of time to solving the problem with anything home-brewed.

A couple people have asked me why I deactivated my Facebook account.  I have a few reasons, if you care to read them.

My wonderful wife bought me a new 21.5" iMac for my birthday. It is speedy, slick, and has all sorts of nifty features (hardware virtualization!). But all is not rosy, because while people like to think that setting up an Apple computer is a breeze, it takes awhile to get your environment configured if you're as set in your ways as I am. Here's a quick list of applications I can't live without.

New computer, here are the specs:
AMD Athlon64 4500
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
1GB Kingston RAM
2 x 40GB Western Digital SATA in RAID 0
160GB Samsung SATA
GeForce 6800 OC 128
Realtek 8169 Gigabit ethernet
2 x Samsung SyncMaster LCD screens
Plextor DVD-+RW
SBLive 5.1
Cooler master Wave Master aluminum alloy case.
Logitech Mouse/keyboard