And I was in on every one of them…
Oneline die roller
Since G wanted to play mousetrap, we pulled it out. Of course, now it is missing pieces — imagine my surprise!
One of the missing pieces? The die. Laptop to the rescue!
(Although we actually used Online Die Roller)
Not so much privacy now, eh?
Time to take his guns, right?
Hollywood legend Charlton Heston dead at 84.
Thanks to Cy for the bad joke.
Grace won a cake on the cakewalk
PTA Carnival
Bubbles
Catchup blogging is easier!
I do like the new server…
First, things overheard:
Apparently wordpress works with gravatars:
And to make wifi work properly on ubuntu:
Galleries disabled…
But only within wordpress. Neither plugin (wpg2 nor picasaweb) is yet compatable with wp2.5. Sigh.
Face painting
Well, now that I can post more quickly…
The primary result is that I bookmark more things!
Just to go back to my regular method; here are things overheard that I liked:
- Overheard in New York | Finally, Someone Understands That the Terms Are Mutually Exclusive.
- Overheard in New York | He Wasn’t, Incidentally
- Overheard in New York | When the Pretenders Ride the Train
- Overheard in New York | We Have Special Clubs for That
Not to get too fanboy-like, but jwz has had a fantastic week of blogging:
Other funny things:
- Star Wars comes to Holyhead as Darth Vader strikes back in Jedi’s back garden – Telegraph
- Flying Spaghetti Monster Statue Outside of Tennessee Courthouse | Laughing Squid
And since I’m not quite done with the new server, some more geeky things:
- Gentoo Forums :: View topic – Mini-Howto webapp-config install of awstats
- amavisd-new documentation bits and pieces
- Blocking spammers with Postfix HELO controls
- Shared automatic whitelists of MTAs
- MailZu – amavisd mysql admin
- Amavisd Quarantine with amavisnewsql squirrelmail plugin | Uno-Code
- Beating Spam and Viruses with amavisd-new and Maia Mailguard
- Photo Exhibit (photoXhibit): a WordPress Photo Manager and Gallery Plugin | The Book and the Cover
Oh, and happy April fools day. Grace was the big prankster this year. Acorn, tree. Not far.
Interesting…
Austin now has “street view” in google maps…
Catch blogging, expect more frequent updates now that the server is faster!
In honor of the new server, we’ll start out with geeky links first:
- Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins | Blueprint Design Studio
- WP Super Cache 0.6 – Holy Shmoly!
- The WordPress Expert
- WordPress MU › Home
- Gentoo Linux Documentation — Gentoo LVM2 installation
- The Unix Geek: Why I switched back to Ubuntu
- the { buckblogs :here }: Mongrel, SSL, and Apache 1.3
- Ext2fsd – http://ext2.yeah.net
- Dynamically configured mass virtual hosting – Apache HTTP Server
- Gentoo Linux Documentation — Gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide
- Gentoo Linux Documentation — Gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide
- Mass Install/Upgrade WordPress with Gentoo + webapp_config | SYP
- CodeChimp.net » Turning on Dynamic VHosts in Apache 2 on Gentoo Linux
- MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 5.1.3 System Variables
- Get Back your Screen Space: Maximize Firefox Viewing Area | MakeUseOf.com
- Trusted Root – Root Sign Certificate for Microsoft Certificate Services CA / Inhouse CA
- http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/courier-exec.txt
- 101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site – Inside CRM
- Srizbi now leads the spam pack :: Marshal
- Second mass hack exposed – Security – iTnews Australia
- I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Antisocial | PBS
Geeky or funny — you make the call:
Now, just funny stuff:
- DOT Creates New Lane For Reckless Drivers | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
- Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures – I Can Has Cheezburger?
- America’s Drunkest Cities: Men’s Health.com
- No returns
- Being John Malkovich script by Charlie Kaufman
- beer_spill_3.jpg (JPEG Image, 652×488 pixels)
Golf stuff (I want, but not that badly)
- Full Swing Golf Swing Simulators Let You Play Onine | BallerHouse.com
- Full Swing Golf – Golf Simulators, Indoor Golf Simulator, Club Fitting, Golf Instruction
Interesting:
Long time coming…
they.com is now running on new hardware!
There was a happy congruence of tax refund check and Dell having a sale of 45% off servers, so the 8+ year old system (a sun netra t1 with a 900MHz ultrasparc IIi, 1G RAM and an external 30G drive) has been replaced (by a poweredge 2750, with 2 2GHz AMD processors, 8G RAM, and 6 160G drives with hardware RAID). After running for 7 hours, the new system has yet to swap memory to disk!
They have also made the switch from Debian GNU/Linux to Gentoo.
There will still be a few things to work out — for example, they have not decided whether or not to re-export the /docs/ directory (which they don’t think they will do again), and some wordpress upgrading differences have yet to be fully resolved.
For now, though, they are just glad to have made the switch, because they can now re-enable spam filtering on the server, and now have virtual mail delivery (so that there are fewer hackable login accounts).
Oh, and since it doesn’t take over a minute to make a post on wordpress anymore, you can expect more frequent posting!
Here is the new server last weekend, while they copied over the gallery images to save bandwidth: