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I'm in my server, upgradin my blogz

mikeg@bsd-box.net (mikeg) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:26:58 -0400

Well, it looks like s9y and PHP 5.3.0 are not the best of friends -- lots of deprecated crap that was scrolling many Deprecated: messages at the bottom of my blog. (Stupid software. Stupid deprecation. Stupid...STUPID!)

Upgraded to s9y 1.5 prerelease, replaced a few wayward split() calls (now deprecated) with explode() (still permissible and technically "better" since it's split()-ing on a plain string and not a regex), and now I don't have to look at that shit anymore.

All of this because I'm preparing to launch another N-part series on Bacula, rsync.net & remote VTLs. Stay tuned.

I like this template/layout better...

mikeg@bsd-box.net (mikeg) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:50:08 -0400

That's all really. I think it's easier to read.

Blog Housekeeping

mikeg@bsd-box.net (mikeg) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:19:41 -0400

Waiting for crap to compile at work, so I did some housekeeping - rearranged the sidebars, fixed the Google ads so they look like the rest of the blog & turned 'em back on.

Once again I'm pretty sure I didn't break anything - this is becoming a streak!

Impromptu Server Upgrade

mikeg@bsd-box.net (mikeg) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:38:22 -0500

So since I was breaking shit for work I broke shit for me too -- Upgraded to a shiny new Apache+PHP/Postgres install. Amazingly nothing broke :)

Impromptu blog upgrade

mikeg@bsd-box.net (mikeg) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:17:08 -0500

Upgraded to s9y 1.4.1 for no reason other than "It's Available". Doesn't look like anything broke.

Oh Yeah, you need an upgrade!

mikeg@bsd-box.net (mikeg) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:15:30 -0500

OK so for those of you who were too damn stupid to notice (or too damn nice to tell me, or who didn't stumble across one of the b0rked features), I done broke my frackin' blog. Long story short I upgraded the server that hosts this little disaster in cyberspace - Good for me (and good for the server, which now has 2 power supplies, a RAID array, and other things that servers should really have). In the process I restored this bog from backups, did a fixperms because I renumbered a few users (including me) out of the "UID < 1000" range, and broke LOTS OF SHIT, including the ability to make new entries! I've fixed the broken shit now and this blog is now accessible at its usual home (http://www.bsd-box.net/~mikeg/blog/) as well as on LJ (http://mgrazi3.livejournal.com/) Enjoy the show as always.

Wow... Comment Spam...

mikeg@bsd-box.net (mikeg) — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:43:21 -0400

Like... Wow.... I actually got COMMENT SPAM on my blog! Well, actually it was a trackback to some jackass selling "p1lls and m3dz" or some such. Anyway, I've gone ahead and become a comment nazi. Y'all need to do the "type in the letters from a picture" bit now. sniffle I feel all "Mister-Big-Time-Blogger" now. My crappy ass homegrown blog never got comment spam. There will be a real entry at some point this week, promise.

Why Serendipity? And what's with the new site?

mikeg@bsd-box.net (mikeg) — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:57:25 -0400

So what made me chose Serendipity? I wrote a pretty good Blogging engine a while back, DB Backed, Searchable, Secure and Safe comments, decent IFRAME-based front-page display, RSS Syndication.... Then my system crashed, and I lost that work, along with over 100 entries, lots of media and my will to rebuild the thing. In its place, I found the desire to rebuild all of bsd-box.net in a unified way, with a CSS-Based theme, and so Serendipity (0.8) was chosen. Serendipity brings a collection of nice features, but more to the point, it brings a nice, unified look and feel which will eventually be carried over into the rest of the site. Look for improvements at the usual (glacial) pace :)