wordpress oddity
So, this is weird. I thought I was going nuts! I’ve not used any blogging package other than wordpress before, so I don’t know if this is “normal” or not, but it seems a trifle silly. By default (and by “by default” what I really mean is “you can’t change it easily”) wordpress will only show the date/time for a blog entry if it’s the first one for a given day. How annoying is that!?! Is there a reason for this, does anyone know?
gladiator, the movie
I don’t know why movies affect me so much, but they really do. I’ve always been this way, as long as I can remember.
Gesundheit
So, I’ve been a sickie for the last couple of days. Stayed home 2 days because of it. Some might call that being a weenie. I prefer to think of it as being smart and healthy. Wow, what a weird thought process this is.
and now for something completely different
Groovy!! So, like tigert put it, “What happened to the site that never updates!?” =:)
allow myself to introduce… myself… again…
I’ve recently been informed by my lovely bride that I need to put more things on my little site here, showing off my little family. I’ve always been hesitant to do so, but I’ve apparently been overruled in this. =:) So then… the beans….
linux neato-ness
As I said, my first exposure to the linux operating system was in the IRC channels on the undernet network. And it seemed to me that the people who were talking about linux (at this point in time, linux was still early in its 1.2.x kernel phase) were the people who were very knowledgeable about computers in general, and seemed very well-informed about operating systems in particular. I looked up to these people–felt a kinship with them. And more importantly, I felt intrigued enough about this freak of programming, linux, that I just had to look at it some more. Now, having come from the hellish days of DOS 5-6.22/Windows 3.xx, Windows 95 was a very nice improvement. It seemed much better-designed. At the very least, it made some things easier. But it was still so obviously not anything close to what I thought my computer should look and feel like. So I went to a local college book store and found the last copy of Linux Unleashed. I forget who wrote it, but it came with Slackware’s distribution of Linux–kernel 1.2.13. I was living large. Having not had any exposure to UNIX before, Linux was quite a shock. But I was determined, and stuck to it. And I loved it. It was a completely different way of looking at my system–and for the first time ever, I had complete control over the way my system ran, the things that it did, and the range of things I could do with it. Granted, having a book to help you along the first couple of months with any new operating system is incredibly helpful. I’ll not go into any great depth here as to the advantages that Linux has over Windows, as there are SO many other pages that do just this. But suffice it to say that compared to the Windows Operating System (TM), Linux performs better than it, has more uses than it, has infinitely much more reliability than it, and costs infinitely less than it (do the math–Windows costs $70 per version, at least, while linux costs you $0 per version, at least). And I was extremely happy with linux. And there are SO many different Linux distributions, such as SuSE Linux, Mandrake Linux, Redhat Linux, Debian Linux, YellowDog Linux, Slackware Linux, … erm… and a bunch more… Now THIS is REALLY funny…. =:) I just found this–click here to read a VERY funny article by the bbspot guys about the number of linux distributions…. bwahahah!! Okay, but seriously, Linux is a very good operating system–especially compared with Windows. I have several servers set up at work running linux that have been running IBM’s DB2 database instances, Oracle 8’s database instances, mySql, PHP4, apache, full development environment, X, etc., and haven’t been re-booted in 8 months now. Very solid operating system. Of the distributions out there, in my opinion debian Linux is the best of the bunch. It is very well-put-together, and if you’re considering linux as a reliable solution, (and you have some idea of what you’re doing) I highly recommend debian as your Linux distribution of choice. Anyhoo, suffice it to say that Linux is good. Linux is great. Linux beats Windows (tm) hands down. But….
something about computers or something…
So indeed. Who really cares what you run on that computer you paid all that money for, right? I mean, it’s a free country (well, mine is advertised as being free, at any rate). Why not just like what ya bought? Why not just learn to live with it?!? I mean, who do those nutballs think they are, saying that Windows isn’t the fine piece of quality that you thought it was when you put all your hard-earned money into it!?! Really! I mean those linux guys are just freaks, right? They really don’t have anything better than you do with your Windows desktop, right? I mean, come on, every computer system crashes at least once a week, right? Twice a week? Three times a week? Ehh? Don’t they all?
php oracle database class
PHP stuff!!
timing is everything
Finally had a chance to look at things. Well, a little time. But not enough time to actually do anything about it. Which stinks. Thought I’d try to redo the site, using something from oswd, and I pulled down several templates, but again, don’t have enough time to actually do anything about it. Bummy. Maybe next month. =:/
down / time
Well, I suppose that this happens all over the place so I shouldn’t be surprised that it happened to me, but server2.spiderhosts.com got hacked over the last couple of days, which means that movingparts.net was off the ‘net for the duration, which stinks. However, I had thought ahead this time (4 months back), and decided to manage my DNS apart from spiderhosts.com. So, at the very least, I was able to set up a backup MX record for myself and I was only unable to receive e-mail for a day. Not horrible.