Software (9)
"moodledata" location affects Moodle performance
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Friday, 19 November 2010 11:37 | 0 commentsI've been working with Moodle for several years now, primarily as part of the SLOODLE project. However, one thing that has always been a source of frustration is how slow Moodle often seems on my local Windows Vista PC in work (sadly, I don't have the option of upgrading to Win7). As it turns out, the performance problem was entirely caused by where I had placed my "moodledata" folder, and there is any easy solution.
WWWPS stops Apache starting on Windows 7
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Wednesday, 23 June 2010 10:51 | 0 comments
Due to a recent computer catastrophe, I had to re-install Windows 7 from scratch. Previously I had been working on an upgrade from the Windows Vista installation which originally came on my PC when I bought it.
The team behind the open source Zotero citation management software has been actively developing "sync" functionality for quite some time now. It allows you to work with your references collection from multiple computers by storing the latest copy of your collection on the Zotero servers.An optional part of the sync system allows you to store PDF files and such like in your collection (full-text copies of papers etc.). Zotero provides 100MB of storage free to everyone, but towards the end of 2009 they introduced an optional premium service, in conjuction with Digital Scholar.
I noticed that my hard disk was down to less than 1GB free this evening, so I decided to do a clear out. I am running a rather crusty old Windows XP Pro installation, and on my usual rounds, I noticed a large file that I hadn't noticed before, called "hiberfil.sys". It was sitting in the root of the C drive, taking up around 1.5GB.
I've learned from experience (the hard way) not to go about randomly deleting files, especially when Windows displays them with a slightly faded-out icon, indicating they are supposed to be hidden/system files. Thankfully, a quick web-search revealed what I needed to know.
I've learned from experience (the hard way) not to go about randomly deleting files, especially when Windows displays them with a slightly faded-out icon, indicating they are supposed to be hidden/system files. Thankfully, a quick web-search revealed what I needed to know.
Zotero 1.5 sync: tag too long
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Friday, 06 March 2009 10:31 | 0 comments
I had been awaiting the Zotero synchronization functionality with great anticipation, so that I can easily share my citation library between home and work. I recently downloaded the first beta version of Zotero 1.5, which supports sync, and got it up and running.