Luckily, after a weeks vacation and procrastinating about updating my resume / beginning to find a new source of income to cover my rent, I was offered a new job at http://www.tobacco.net.au – Cheap Cigarettes made in Australia. The work’s completely different, so it’s a great new learning curve, and hopefully the addictive qualities of nicatine should keep me in a job!

I’ve got a new HP DL585 server that I’m using for development, and let me say, this thing is a beast. I set it up about 2 weeks ago with Fedora Core 10, but the problem was all our hard drives didn’t arrive with the server, and I needed to get it up and running. I needed to create a RAID 1 mirror of the 36GB 15k SAS system drive but only had 1 of the drives.

This morning, the second drive arrived and I had to figure out how to create a mirror of the existing drive, without having to reinstall the entire OS again or lose any data. Thanks to the power of the command line it made light work of a seemingly daunting problem.

First, create an image of your drive onto another temporary drive:
Mount a partition to store the backup image of the system drive, in this case I used /dev/cciss/c0d1p1

mkdir /media/backup
mount -t ext3 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 /media/backup

Create an image of the drive you’re wanting to use for the RAID array (/dev/cciss/c0d0)

dd bs=4k if=/dev/cciss/c0d0 of=/media/backup/backup.img conv=noerror,sync

Secondly, install the new drive being used as the mirror and create the RAID 1 array using the controller.

Finally, reboot with the Fedora CD in the drive and enter recovery mode. Just skip past any menus that come up until you’re presented with a command prompt.
Now mount the partition with the backup image

mkdir /mnt/backup
mount -t ext3 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 /mnt/backup

Restore the system drive

dd bs=4k if=/mnt/backup/backup.img of=/dev/cciss/c0d0

Once complete, take the Fedora CD out of the drive and reboot, and the system should be like you never touched it.

This new job has me doing 12 hour days when including travel to and from, so I’ve barely had time to myself. When I get a few days off, I’ll try and get a new update on Flickr Manager pushed out.

The method for insertion of images has changed to give you greater control over your Flickr photos. The save button will update the photo information directly on Flickr. When inserting a photo, the title field will reflect the caption to be displayed in the Lightbox or Highslide overlay (No save is necessary for this to take effect).

Finally this update includes some security updates which address several vulnerabilities, and it’s highly recommended that you upgrade.

EDIT:

A Launchpad translation project has been setup: Click here to view a list of all currently available translations. Very briefly, Launchpad will enable a community of translators to help translate the plugin into whatever language is needed.

How to translate with Launchpad

1. Setup a Launchpad.net account.
2. Select your preferred languages. This will be the language you want to translate.
3. You should see your language show up in this list. Simply click the name to get started with the translations. The system will try to offer suggests where available (retrieved from other open source projects).
4. Your translations are saved as you proceed. When it comes time to package a release, your translation will be automatically included in the release for everyone to use. Thanks for your help!

I’ve created a new page here that will contain all future updates and information about the plugin.

Thanks,
Trent

Wordcamp Melbourne 2007

Also PHP 5 is now required to use this plugin otherwise you’ll receive the following error:
ERROR: You’re currently running 4.x.x and you must have at least PHP 5 in order to use Flickr Manager!

If you don’t have PHP 5 and have no way of installing it I believe version 1.4.5 will still function in some of the later releases of PHP 4.

The new Browse Panel

I’ve also added a “Limit size of images in the browse window” option, which keeps all the images in the browse panel to maintain a constant size of either square or thumbnail depending on your preference to save loading times.

The ‘Browse Photos’ panel has had a bit of a face lift, it now allows for more solid control over inserted Lightbox elements such as specifying the Flickr image size to be displayed in Lightbox from picture to picture.

If you’ve got a suggestion that you’d like to see in a future version of Flickr Manager, let me know.

When you click the “Update Now” button it will automatically download the update from WordPress extend and extract it to your plugins directory.

Installation instructions:

1. Upload the folder `plugin-updater` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
2. CHMOD 777 /wp-content/plugins
3. CHMOD 777 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-updater/packages
4. Activate the plugin through the `Plugins` menu in WordPress.

This isn’t an official release, I’ve still got a lot of testing to do so I’m not offering any support.

If you find any bugs it would be greatly appreciated if you let me know.

NOTE: There’s a known conflict issue with my “Flickr Manager” plugin, which I’ve since had to patch, so if you’re experiencing troubles with it not doing anything when you click the “Update Now” button, please redownload Flickr Manager (or deactivate and click “Update Now” for versions earlier than 1.4.01).

CLICK ME! I do stuff.

I’m boring and just take you to Flickr

Also another feature I added was if you don’t have cURL installed on your web host it will now use fopen instead.
NOTE: File uploads to Flickr won’t work unless you have cURL installed. So if everything is working except uploads, you must install cURL!

Like I said earlier, I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to test this so I’m releasing it as a beta. If you find any errors, please let me know. Thanks.

It’s like raising two children, one of whom is completely retarded