Arcterex's Random Thoughts Since 1996
Sorry but I’m sick of deleting 30 comments a day from some Chinese guy trying to spam about headphones or some crap like that, and considering I don’t get enough actual comments (or traffic that isn’t spam) to worry about it, you know you can just send me an email or something. Bah, stupid internet.
Turned off comments on the blog here cause the last few weeks has been nothing but spam crap through them, the generic “you write an awesome blog” type stuff with a URL for viagra or watch repair or whatever BS they’re selling. Just got tired of clicking the ‘report as spam’ button every half hour. …
In addition to some hardware juggling, I’m finally moving my blog off of my cable modem connection and onto the UFies.org server. If this is up and you’re seeing it, then that means it’s all over and done and DNS is updated and I haven’t blown it all up 🙂
Few things new and changed here. If you read the actual page instead of the RSS feed you’ll see a lovely grey theme (unless I change it again) picked as it’s mildly pleasant and not too annoying. Note that if anyone out there wants to fix me up with something better I’m open to that …
Apparntly for the last few months comments on this site have been broken… no notifications came to me, and I had to really poke and prod the server to get it to show the comments that are there! Stupid MT 🙁 It also looks like something with the new MT has made the ‘continue reading’ …
Similar to the Ubuntu upgrade that wasn’t, the MovableType 4.0 upgrade didn’t go all that well. The install itself, was amazingly easy… two clicks total, outside of copying the new files to the server (and backups of course). The new interface is…. different, but has some really cool features that someone like me can see …
I set up a blog for Iambe and decided to play a bit with the WordPress blogging engine and thought it was pretty slick compared to Movable Type and started looking at using it for this Blog. The install of the latest version, WordPress 2.1 was super-easy, unzip, put in the database login information, go …
Upgraded to MovableType 3.3 (finally). Seems to work quite nicely, and the upgrade routine was pretty easy, other than a minor PITA with a static files directory setting having to be changed (the directory with all the javascript libraries and such, causing the admin interface to basically not work). Notable improvements are lots of little …