Trying out Ecto
Posted by rae in General
at 3:07 pm on Wednesday, 22 November 2006
at 3:07 pm on Wednesday, 22 November 2006
I downloaded Ecto and am giving it a try.
I do find it a bit of a pain to post to blogs and would appreciate anything that would speed the process up.
What I would really like would be something that would let me upload images to tnir and know that the URLs are relative to pics.tnir.org (as well as the usual thing like image size, etc).
We shall see..
WordPress catching on
It’s heartening to see the rest of the world climbing on board the WordPress bandwagon. Of course, *I’m* thinking of moving now to Typo. Bwah hah-hahhh.Fifty SF Novels
Thanks to Tanya, another list-of-stuff!Bold the ones you’ve read,The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*strike-outthe ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov*
Dune, Frank Herbert*
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein*
Neuromancer, William Gibson*
Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
Cities in Flight, James Blish*
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card*
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman*
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Little, Big, John Crowley
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld, Larry Niven*
Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson*
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester*
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock*
The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
Timescape, Gregory Benford
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer*
mail hiccup
Turns out postfix on tnir was only accepting mail from certain specific hosts since I brought it back up, so any mail sent to anyone on tnir (including me) over the last few days may have bounced a bit. I’m hoping it was only a few days, so the valid mail will be retrying and get through. But if you get a bounced bit of email from tnir, now you’ll know why.Annnd, we’re back
Well, that took a bit longer than expected. The stickler was moving from MySQL 4 to MySQL 5. My mysqldump output had two or three now-syntax-errors-in-v-5. Fortunately, they were in unimportant databases. Probably my own fault - I might have named fields poorly, not knowing about reserved words for future releases or something. Well, all should be good now. Most of the old sites are up. Squirrelmail isn’t quite up yet but that shouldn’t take too long.tnir again, tnir again, jiggety-jig
it’s that time again, when old hardware starts to fade. The below is copied from some mail I sent out to people who use tnir.Poor old tnir is having hardware problems. The technical description is that it goes beep a lot instead of booting. Sometimes it takes me three tries to get it running. Even now, when it seems to be handling internet traffic properly and allows me to log in via ssh, the top â…“ of the Fedora login screen is inexplicably black. I fear tnir is not long for this world. I am setting up Michael’s old PC to be a stopgap tnir. I will use it while I shop for a permanent replacement. It’s only a stopgap because of the reason it’s Michael’s *old* PC - i.e., it turned itself off and for a long time we couldn’t get it to turn on again. And I have no idea why it was off nor why it is now turning on again. Thus stopgap. Tnir is a venerable old 700 MHz Pentium II machine, so it’s about time it got replaced. Also, I’ve been meaning to replace Fedora Core 3 with a more modern Ubuntu Server. I hope the new hardware will have dual ethernet on the motherboard (it was always a pain in previous tnir incarnations to have two ethernet cards), a relatively fast CPU (say a 1.8 GHz Core Duo), and lots of disk space - I have a 160 GB drive available that will be replacing the current 80 GB drive, which is roughly 70% full.