Monthly Archives: February 2008

Inanis.net Conversion Complete

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Inanis.net has finished it’s conversion from Windows jail to Linux freedom. Open Source: feel the breeze.

Enjoy the new layout. It was the toughest part, a labor of love. It took me a total of 24 hours of work to get the theme hacked just the way I want it. My favorite part is the mouseover buttons at the top. Sorry IE6 users, you don’t get to see those. Get Firefox. Or Opera. Or run your damned Windows Updates, for Pete’s sake!

The server setup and configuration was easy. I just grabbed my in-house wiki box I was using for my Computer Museum and SPID, thew in WordPress and some greeblies, and put it on a public IP address. Having the wiki box as my webserver is an added bonus: no more weird dyndns and port forwarding crap!

It’s on a nice fast 3 Megabit fiber connection pretty much by itself, so it serves pages pretty well.

All in all, it was a fun project. Let’s hope it doesn’t break!

WordPress almost ready to go.

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I spent the last couple of days getting the WordPress blog running. That is to say, the blog was running in about 5 minutes. The time was really spent finding a suitable theme then hacking the hell out of it until it didn’t look lame.

I am planning on converting Inanis.net from a “static layout+blog” to a WordPress managed layout. This will allow me to focus on writing content, rather than writing HTML around my content.

Here’s a preview of the layout. Hopefully, you will be seeing it live very soon…

Word Press Teaser

WordPress is cool…. and IE6 renders this blog incorrectly.

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I am in the process of switching my webhosting over from a Windows based thing I get for free, but don’t have any control over to a linux based solution, that will be co-located for free, but I will own the physical server, software rights and upon which I will exert total control. Mwa ha ha ha!!

Anyways, I was playing around with using WordPress, and just like they say, it is really easy to install. If you follow the instructions they give you, it can take as little as 5 minutes. Here’s some linky goodness

Installing WordPress

Installing WordPress on Ubuntu

On another note, since I changed to the “Aero” skin I designed, it doesn’t display properly in IE6. I’ll fix it when I switch to the new blog software.

SimCity Education

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Played around with SimCity 4 tonight, and educated myself on Sunken Ground Level Highways. Allows for really cool, at grade overpasses of highways in your city. WOOT.

The Sunken Highways bible is here.