Spent a few hours looking up details on a company in Belfast only to discover that they were featured on the front page of the JobFinder in the Belfast Telegraph on Friday last. Typical eh? Sometimes it seems that the online world is so far ahead of the offline one. And sometimes not.
I’ve reinstalled Mac OS X Server 2.0 on the iMac because I want to play with WebDAV a bit. WebDAV will be a feature of Mac OS X 10.1 replacing Appleshare over IP as the method of connecting to the iDisk. I’ve been reading a lot about WebDAV recently – especially at http://www.webdav.org/ and really I’m wondering why we bother with SMB and Appletalk and all that nonsense. It also overshadows some crap I’ve had to work with recently – a document versioning application that frankly, needs to be scrapped due to its strict browser compatibility requirements and the fact that it seems to be offline more than online.
Why would I be reading about all this stuff? After all I’m a network guy aren’t I? Some people might remember that after the Mac, I was a web guy – I administered Netscape Enterprise Servers running on HP-UX. Also had to troubleshoot some cgi scripts and do minor maintenance on a basic Apache server. I need to work on my Apache skills though – and I’m realising that I’ve let my backup and RAID stuff get way behind. I’m going to need to work harder on that. I know a lot about the physical side of installing networks and server rooms but I’m lacking on the software side.