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Glad I made a backup… or am I?

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A week ago I decided I wanted to try Ubuntu on Lappy-686, so I made a DriveImage XML image of the drive in case I needed to go back to Windows.

Jump ahead to today. I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on lappy, and lappy didn’t like it. More correctly, I didn’t like it. I love Ubuntu for servers, but it just lacks, I don’t know, "the capability to do anything productive without a crash course in application training" for desktop computers. Add to the fact that Asus put some weird wonky version of a Radeon Mobility 9200 in the thing, so I can’t get working what I really want to work: Compiz Fusion. The FGLRX driver doesn’t work with the graphics chip, the "ati" and "radeon" drivers along with the graphics chip won’t let Compiz enable the nice features and the online suggestions of installing the XGL X Server causes X to bomb and default to VESA mode.

Oh well. No biggie. I’ll just drop my DriveImage XML image back on the lappy. Threw the HDD into my USB cradle and dropped the image back on the drive…. I mean to say I started the process 4 hours ago and I am still waiting for the process to finish. It just may have been faster to reinstall the machine from scratch, including all the drivers, software and restoring the data (which I backed up separately).

I don’t know. It’s all good. The downtime gave me time to play Scrabble with Gac. The cloud does have a silver lining! Wait, that’s not silver… thats SNOW. 16 INCHES OF SNOW!

*rolls around in snow, making snow angels, sounding like one of the 3 Stooges, and waiting for DIXML to do it’s thing…*

I love Ubuntu

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The software is stellar. It is my favorite web server platform, period. It’s fast. It’s reliable. It blows all other Linux distros out of the water for personal style web serving and desktop Linux use. Well, in my opinion.

The LAMP server has almost everything you need ready to go from the start. Getting a Wiki or WordPress blog running out of the box is a piece of cake. No, easier than cake. It’s like breathing. Yes. Serving pages with Ubuntu is like breathing.

The community support is excellent. If I have a problem with Ubuntu, all I have to do is type, even vaguely, a 5 word description of my problem or even just the task I want to accomplish, and someone out there has had the same problem and had it fixed by a Linux or Ubuntu guru.

I Ubuntu.

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 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.