Google’s implementation of document sharing is completely fouled up. The following is a slighted redacted version of a (formerly) internal email to colleagues to tell them what I learned about document sharing based on interactions with their customer support and folks on the net.

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I’m having lots of dropped connections at home. Unfortunately, consumer-grade routers typically have poor monitoring facilities out of the box. Unix/Linux environments have long been able to aggregate logging messages across multiple hosts through a service called syslog. Many routers use embedded Linux and support sending messages to remote systems via syslog. (Emailing logs is supported, but that’s a clumsy option.) This post is a short tip on how to configure a D-Link DI-825 (rev B1) to send system messages to an Ubuntu 10.0 host, but the general method will apply to many routers and nearly all Unix/Linux hosts are capable of acting as logging destinations. (more…)

My hosting provider, HostMonster, uses cPanel to enable account administrators to configure their domains and services. By default, Hostmonster and cPanel place web data for the primary domain in ~/public_html/, with subdomains and “add-on” domains as subdirectories therein. That means that files for the primary domain are comingled with the document roots of other domains. The incongruency of that layout causes heartburn for people like me. This post tells you how to relocate those files AND have them served by the original URLs for the primary domain. (more…)