Since trying out Ubuntu Server 10.04, I’ve decided to move away from Fedora. Despite some of it’s unorthodox configuration (I.e. Apache site configurations – which actually make more sense) it’s really grown on me during the past few weeks.
Although, everytime I install an OS I leave the old one on, just in case. That machine can now boot LFS, Fedora 9, Ubuntu 10.04 or Windows 98. Windows 98? Well, how else do I play Quake or MechWarrior 2, etc, etc?
A new version of WordPress was released recently. No surprise there as it’s one software project that seems to be a constant hive of activity and updates are frequent.
But when I installed version 2.9 I decided to split it between one tech-based blog and one personal blog. To do this I added a second WordPress installation in a subdirectory of the current one and created some links between the two. Now it turns out that in the new WordPress 3.0 version you can have multiple blogs, just my luck!
Recently I’ve been trying to upgrade the MySQL installation on my rather old 475MHz RedHat 9.0 test server. It’s one I’ve always kept free of RPMs and package management with the likes of yum, favouring building software from source instead.
It was MySQL 5.0′s lack of support of ‘DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS’ which started me off on this upgrade, because I use MYSQL Workbench and the latest version automatically inserts a drop if exists when applying changes to an existing trigger.
Finally had a few seconds knocking about to see what the screen near the end of the IT Crowd title credits is all about. Which is weird as I’ve been wondering whether to update my FC9 machines to FC12, hmmm.
But I’m still not changing my RH9 server, for sentimental reasons…
Finally took a couple of minutes to look at why the ngg-gallery slideshow widget wasn’t working since I moved my sites and upgraded WordPress. Initially I just wanted to reinsert my code to add my CAPTCHA code back in to stop people spamming comments, then I thought I might as well go one step further towards getting the site back to normal.
Turns out it was just a case of setting up the location of the JW ImageRotator file.