Let’s see if I can renumber this post to 236, and then have my next post be 237…
Posted on May 3rd 2005 in Hardware
Working on getting everything moved over to the new server hardware, and while it’s all going fairly smoothly, the first “off the cliff” test wasn’t exactly a smashing success. I redirected my ports to the new server, shut down the old one, and then tried browsing, etc.
Wordpress freaked out, and thought that it hadn’t been configured yet. Got that all set up with a new username and password, and my posts were all still there, but my stylesheets (CSS) had ‘asploded.
That was due to my forgetting to set the security right to be the IUSR_servername rights, instead of IUSR_oldservername. Doh.
But we’re getting there. Slowly but surely.
- Windows Server 2003 – Running (DNS is still a little silly, but that’s due to my lack of Goode Brane, not because of Win2k3
- Exchange 2003 – Running
- PHP is running happily.
- MySQL is running version 4.1, which isn’t compatible with phpmyadmin (and since I don’t know diddly-foo about SQL from a command line, I’ve gotta have that running). Probably going back to a 3.x.
Bit by bit, I’m getting it there. Public Enemy playin’ as I go, ’cause mofugga, tha’s how I roll…
Luckily, while I was trying to get stuff working, I read back through some of my old posts and found some of the problems (blogging: the new paperless office). Actually, I get a lot of Google referrals on similar problems. I think if everything at-home sysadmin posted stuff they ran into and couldn’t find results for, we’d be… Well, we’d be Linux. :)
Posted on April 24th 2005 in Hardware
Jinzora is a web based media streaming and management system, designed to stream audio and video files to any internet connected computer – anytime, anywhere.
Grafik Dynamo is a net art work by Kate Armstrong & Michael Tippett that loads live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The work is currently using a feed from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic web content opens up the genre in a new way: Together, the images and narrative serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes perfectly in sync, and always moving and changing. The work takes an experimental approach to open ended narrative, positing a new hybrid between the flow of data animating the work and the formal perameter that comprises its structure.
In other words, random stuff mixed with random stuff is REALLY random. The fun part is that your brain keeps trying to put them together anyway.
Finally got the oh-so groovy StatTraq statistics thing installed. Very cool to have this working under WordPress 1.5 Yay them!
Be prepared for stuff where I’m talking about my referrers a lot.
GoogleMontage creates an image montage based on keywords that you give it. The queue on the left shows what’s inbound, and then there’s the recent montages.
Pretty squippy.
I’m waiting for mine right now (12:55am – Monday).
Narf!
Posted on April 10th 2005 in Hardware
Get Your Hands off of my Squir-rel!
This story is really fun to read out loud. It’s about a man, his squirrel and the government that would try to separate them. Don’t worry: the good guys win. In the Vancouver Sun today, one cover story started, “If Pope John Paul II dies, who will take over his duties?” Wow! […]
scooped that from CheeseBlog, and used SauceReader to do it.
Posted on April 3rd 2005 in Hardware
Via BoingBoing
Obsessive gamer Storm Troopers get a Vader-visit
The 203rd Desert Expeditionary Legion (A Company) are a group of Star Wars Galaxies gamers who are really into being Storm Troopers. They drill, patrol, take shifts and work military discipline among themselves. After doing this for some time, the game-masters in SWG decided to reward them for their diligence: so they dispatched a virtual Darth Vader to go to their camp and give them a pep-talk:
I’m sorry. I dig that it’s becoming smooth enough of a flow that gamers can do things like drills and things, but I’m not entirely sure why I would pay money to stand in line… It is pretty cool though that Darth Vader showed up… The SWG guys seem to be doing some pretty cool stuff, but it’s still not the same as craziness that the World of Warcraft folks pulled off when they ended their Beta test. Instead of just turning off the world, they sent in these huge monsters that just killed everything in sight.
Very cool.
Posted on March 15th 2005 in Hardware
So, yet another side effect of the upgrade to WordPress 1.5 was that comments were being flagged as spam by WordPress was that *ALL* of the comments people were leaving were being marked as spam, and then tucked away in my database, without telling me it was happening.
GUH.
So, it’s all back, but then round two will be adding the “Human Check” question back into my comment stuff. That seemed to work fairly well, actually.
Sorry for having your names show up on the side there, but not be able to READ it.
Posted on March 10th 2005 in Hardware
So, ever since I upgraded my blog from WordPress 1.2.x to 1.5, I’ve been unable to get my modified Dots theme and all the extra goodies I’ve crammed into my Index.php to work properly.
I got it to display something once, and Lord, it wasn’t pretty.
I’ll give this thing a shot some time, and see if I can resurrect my old Mushroom Zoom thing I had going:
Posted on March 8th 2005 in Hardware
