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This is a summary of changes made to my Web site in the last year, presented as a chronological digest of VCS commits. It is updated approximately as often as I change pages. The information is extracted automatically from Git, so even though I may forget to run it now and then, what it shows will always be complete.
Times are UTC.
2021-08-13 21:37:54:
revision: aa7343a; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com>
* makefile:
+ Oops; fix makefile boo-boo.
2021-08-13 21:36:46:
revision: 8d27630; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com>
* makefile:
+ (climbing-pages): Add climbing/gym-to-crag-faq.html to this macro.
2021-08-13 21:33:25:
revision: 88acde2; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com>
* climbing/gym-to-crag-faq.html (added):
+ First draft for the AMC 2021 weekend on September 18-19.
2021-03-02 02:16:42:
revision: 2528552; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* site-map.html:
+ Improve the Linux section, and move it higher.
+ Restore the (small) Common Lisp section.
2021-02-09 22:58:32:
revision: 3c5f26a; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/backup.html:
+ Update the backup.pl synopsis.
2021-02-08 00:34:11:
revision: 3fedf35; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* site-map.html:
+ Update this.
2021-02-08 00:26:06:
revision: 9c66818; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* free-clim/ex-0306-4.html (removed), free-clim/index.html (removed):
+ Get rid of this unused/unreferenced stuff.
2021-02-08 00:21:01:
revision: f528162; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* visitors.html (removed):
+ This is much too out of date.
* makefile:
+ Remove visitors.html from the top-pages macro.
* web-site.html, site-map.html:
+ Remove a link to visitors.html.
2021-02-08 00:12:24:
revision: 6d25673; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* climbing/index.html:
+ Update gym information.
+ Remove the MITOC link, since they no longer have the "sitemap" page
with pointers to other resources.
+ Update weather links.
2021-02-07 17:58:57:
revision: 2a885c0; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/howto.html:
+ Remove the old "boot recovery" recipe, which only applied when the
system was the firewall/router.
+ Remove the Samba stuff.
+ Remove dead RPM and XFree86 links.
+ Add a caveat about old Zip and floppy drive info.
+ Plus other changes to bring this more up to date.
2021-02-07 17:58:00:
revision: 43da324; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* site-map.html, linux/howto.html, linux/index.html:
+ Remove security/ links, since I don't seem to have anything current
to say on these pages.
* makefile:
+ Remove the security-pages macro.
2021-02-04 00:28:04:
revision: 09e3f33; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/backup.html:
+ Add a level 2 tar dump, plus further corrections.
2021-02-01 00:57:44:
revision: 10da823; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* makefile:
+ Remove the perl-pages macro.
2021-02-01 00:57:15:
revision: 1de1b55; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* change-history-template.html:
+ Remove another rogue Subversion reference.
+ Times are UTC.
2021-01-31 00:51:47:
revision: 158935e; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/backup.html:
+ Correct some problems with the description of tar backups.
2021-01-30 03:27:57:
revision: 6e39168; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/disk-upgrade.html:
+ Give this page a minimal update, because it is tied to the time
and hardware involved.
* linux/subversion.html:
+ Add a disclaimer about the age of this page, but keep it around
because much of it probably still works.
* linux/index.html:
+ Finish updating the articles list, adding "vintage" tags to the two
foregoing articles.
2021-01-30 02:56:53:
revision: ef98ff3; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/ether.html:
+ Remove a dead link to http://thebestpins.com/.
2021-01-28 01:25:26:
revision: a16febe; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* makefile:
+ Get rid of *-hits.html targets.
2021-01-28 01:23:43:
revision: d3ac935; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/cd-burning.html:
+ Add a note that cd-dump.pl is also in the scripts backup tools.
2021-01-27 23:11:32:
revision: 65136b2; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* change-history-template.html:
+ They are not Subversion commits any more.
2021-01-27 23:03:24:
revision: 282878f; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* makefile:
+ (generated-pages): Remove this macro, since we now provide links
to Github rather than providing pod2html versions of scripts.
+ (serious-pages): Remove ${generated-pages}.
* site-map.html:
+ Remove a reference to backup.pl.html.
2021-01-25 23:44:49:
revision: 8a62225; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
Extensive backup.html expansion and update.
* linux/backup.html:
+ Add an "Abstract" section.
+ Under "Backup technologies," say more about dar up front, and give
installation instructions for openSUSE.
+ Add a "remount read-only" paragraph to "Backup timing."
+ Recommend a DB client for database dumps.
+ Show our current backup crontab.
+ Add an "Archival backups with tar" section.
+ Update the "Archival backups with dump" section, in particular to
note that backup.pl no longer supports dump, and make it more
even-handed about its tradeoffs.
+ Update "Archival backups with dar."
+ Add a 'Backup tools in the "scripts" project' section, describing
how they work together and the file naming convention.
+ Update "The backup.pl Perl script", and add a Github link.
+ Add a "Listing backups with show-backups.pl" section.
+ Update the "Copying dump files with vacuum.pl" section.
+ Add a "Tidying up with clean-backups.pl" section.
+ Add some links to "Notes on mirroring backup," and do a better
job of describing database replication.
+ Replace the "Mirroring case history 1: Web server content" section
with a description of mirroring the CMUCL downloads.
2021-01-25 04:26:30:
revision: f364a1b; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/index.html:
+ Remove dead links, add Github links.
2021-01-25 03:23:40:
revision: a4c602f; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* makefile:
+ Don't install nis.html.
* site-map.html, linux/howto.html, linux/index.html:
+ Remove references to NIS.
2021-01-25 03:21:32:
revision: a537ffb; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/howto.html:
+ Rename the "Burning DVDs and CDs" page.
2021-01-19 01:51:09:
revision: b584f5f; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
Revamp the cd-burning.html page.
* linux/cd-burning.html:
+ Make "Selected mkisofs and cdrecord options" an appendix.
+ Remove discussion of "my current CD-RW/DVD-ROM" and its driver
issues, since everyone uses USB these days.
+ Correct mention of mkisofs.
+ Give /dev/srX equal footing.
+ Remove a SuSE 9.0 hack.
+ Update image mounting.
+ Replace most of the "Burning CDs and DVDs with cd-dump.pl"
content with Github link to the cd-dump.pl source.
+ Add a link to the device-finding "howto" from the image mounting
"howto".
+ Use "disk" instead of "CD" in a few places, to be generic.
2021-01-18 23:40:23:
revision: aee4080; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/ntp.html:
+ Remove the "Getting an NTP client for other operating systems" and
"Opening up a firewall for an NTP server" sections.
+ Explain why "Running an NTP server" is no longer a good idea.
+ Make extensive updates to the "Adjusting the clock with a built-in
NTP daemon" and Continuous clock adjustment with ntpd" sections.
+ Plus other random (and much overdue) updates.
2020-12-21 22:15:16:
revision: 4d8632a; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/index.html:
+ We don't really need a 14-year-old note here that the Common Lisp
section has been moved.
2020-12-21 22:04:51:
revision: b85da79; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* linux/security/index.html:
+ Remove some obsolete stuff, in particular the privacy section,
the check-logs.pl script, and the "Eliminate unnecessary
services" 'article'. plus broken links.
+ Use the standard site.css, and make them "howto" <dl>'s.
* linux/security/check-logs.html (removed):
+ Obsolete; removed.
* linux/security/old-xauth.html (removed):
+ This was even marked explicitly obsolete in 2003.
* site-map.html:
+ Remove the check-logs.html link.
* makefile:
+ Remove check-logs.html and old-xauth.html from the security-pages
macro.
2020-12-21 21:45:55:
revision: 9b61cac; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* bob/tmda.html (removed), linux/antispam.html (removed):
+ Get rid of these, which are way obsolete.
* linux/index.html:
+ Remove the link to antispam.html.
* makefile:
+ Remove antispam.html from the linux-pages macro.
2020-12-20 02:55:26:
revision: 4201abc; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* index.html:
+ Drop the Perl page, because it turns out I have nothing current to
say there.
+ Drop the broken haldane.bu.edu link.
+ Add a Github link.
+ Use relative URLs for the subdirectories.
2020-12-20 02:54:25:
revision: 41280b1; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* bob/contact.html:
+ Simplify, and make rogers@rgrjr.com the preferred email address.
2020-12-20 02:36:19:
revision: 3767c3f; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* lisp/index.html:
+ Remove broken links, correct <dl> formatting.
2020-12-15 21:50:02:
revision: 79e2a88; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* hits.html:
+ Remove $Id$.
2020-12-15 21:29:53:
revision: d7deb70; author: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
* bob/index.html:
+ Simplify greatly. In particular, remove links for Anna and Lizzie.
* linux/antispam.html, linux/index.html, site-map.html, bob/contact.html:
+ Remove tmda.html references.
* hits.html:
+ Remove all content, which was 12+ years out of date.
* makefile:
+ Don't install damon-mahler.html or tmda.html, nor any of the files
under bob/anna/ or bob/liz/.