Happy May Day!
Though I’ve been using my new laptop almost exclusively this past month or so, I’d let the final setup tasks fall by the wayside — not abandoned, just on the back burner for a while. But then, over the last few days, I made some real progress:
My Header Calculation Program
I moved the program over to the new machine a while ago, but it wouldn’t run (not even to just give a version number and exit), with an error message saying that it couldn’t find the MXML library. I tried setting up libmxml and ran into another other issue: my code was compiled to a 32-bit architecture (two laptops ago), and the new laptop wouldn’t let me use th 64-bit mxml library with the old program. (Not sure how the old laptops let me get away with it.) The obvious answer was to recompile, which was something I needed to do anyway for some parts of the program, to make it compatible with the new database configuration.
I got libmxml installed properly, ran make, and as expected I found some errors. I needed to install PostgreSQL’s libpq library, which wasn’t too hard, and after that make ran fine, and so did the program itself. It was kind of cool to run the thing, but ASME header calculations really are something I have no longer have any use for.
That was Wednesday.
My Local Web
Today I got my web server configured to display and run my internal website. I got the server up and running a few weeks ago, but I was dreading this next step — it turned out to be more straightforward than I expected; the only hangup was getting PHP installed, which took all of a minute… And now I have my internal website back, including what I expected to be the most difficult part: my LV commuter map. Granted, I’ll probably have to Marie Kondo my way through the place to get rid of all the old clutter, but that’s a task for another day.
Most of what I did before this week was just moving files, but these were both firmly on the “porting software to a new system” side of things. What’s left for the new laptop? I will likely set up my background soon, to be like the old laptop — right now I kind of like the current dark generic background though, so we’ll see. And then I should be done!
