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0.9 caused some pretty serious problems for me: It locked up, competely, when trying to load certain (but not all) https pages, such as my secure webmail or webmin. I reverted back to 0.8 because of that one, so here's hoping that the new release fixes it.

I've been running Mandrake of various releases for about 6 years now. Very happy with it. (Although I've found myself booting to windows a lot lately, strictly to run iTunes... no good firewire support on my laptop yet, so that's one thing I can't do in Linux at the moment.)

That does sound reasonable, but actually in this context I don't think you need to reboot. I think that when you log out of Gnome or KDE (and whatever window manager you're using), your display manager will restart X. Give it a try -- you should be able to switch window managers and desktop environments without every needing to reboot. At worst, you should be able to CTRL--ALT-backspace (not delete!) at the display manager login to manually restart X.

Are you kidding?! I haven't gotten a thing done all week. This dissertation proposal is going to kill me! That said, I got 6/10 and will now incorporate "watch the underpants for wind direction" into regular conversation.

Kasey, the site looks great. Really nice work!

Computers and robots only do what they are told to. Computers and robots are built and programmed by humans. And again, the Simpsons save the day: Homer: Linguo... dead? Linguo: Linguo is dead! <bzzzzzz....click> Okay, maybe it doesn't fit. But it's pretty good.

Congratulations, Mike!

Textpattern dominates. All will be assimilated. Signed, a proud member of the Dean Allen Army.

Lisa sounds like she's got the fix. To augment it a little bit, if you put your stylesheet in /public_html/css/stylesheet.css, then you call it from your html document as "css/stylesheet.css" (if your document is in /public_html), or as "/css/stylesheet.css", or via any relative path you want (as "../css/stylesheet.css" if the calling document is in a subdirectory of public_html, for instance). In other words, /public_html is the root of all your web documents, so preceding any path with a slash (like "/directory/foobar.html") sends the server looking for a directory relative to that location, rather than your top-level directory. Like Lisa said, anything you want to be seen via the web has to go in public_html or some subdirectory therof.

That should do the trick. Once you get the hang of thinking of everything relative to the Movabletype base directory, things fall into place pretty well. I think you're on your way!

This will likely put me in a curmudgeonly minority, but I have to ask: Is a flash menu really necessary? I don't have flash installed on my linux laptop because it creates a system conflict that crashed my browser -- I'd like to have it, but haven't been able to get it working, ever. So there's no flash menu for me on any of the new sites, and the status page is completely non-functional. I know, I know, everybody has flash these days. But, really, not everybody does. Locking functionality into presentation seems like something that can only hurt TCH's ability to serve customers who, for whatever reason, don't have flash -- old computer, text reader, non-graphical browser, whatever. One other note: I receive a 404 page when I click on CPanel->Overview on the new help page (URL is http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/help/id20.htm). Otherwise, I like the color scheme and general style of the site. Knowing the prior system of TCH pages, it's clear that you all worked really hard at reorganizing as well as designing. Kudos on that effort! -Alan

Congratulations, Zach and Boxturt! And Boxturt, I must have missed your photo the first time around -- holy cow, that's a lot of stuff! Can you launch rockets from that bunker?

Robert: Can you really only do limited graphical editing work with the 5100? Maybe I'm out of touch these days, but it looks pretty powerful to me. Of course, I'm still getting along just fine with my 1.7ghz Toshiba Satellite, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask. PS: Smith College! Congratulations!

Ahh, another opportunity to relate real life to a cartoon. So, 3000 viruses? No problem! Zoink! Okay, back to LAN talk...

Yep, it should be pretty straightforward. In your MT "Core Setup," change the local site path (probably to /home/you/public_html/blog, reflecting the directory for your subdomain), then change the site URL and archives paths accordingly (archives might become /home/you/public_html/blog/archives, for example). When you rebuild the entire site, any page that is built by Movabletype should be rebuilt in the new locations. If you've kept the same directory structure, then you can also redirect requests for the old path to your subdomain.

I think this issue comes up later in that same thread. I had the same problem, and fixed it by using straight HTML, rather than forum code, in my sig, like so: ><A HREF="http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/message/icq/ICQNUMBER"><img src="http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/icq/ICQNUMBER"></a> | <a href="http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/message/yahoo/YAHOOID"><img src="http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/yahoo/YAHOOID"></a> I never got the other style to work for me, but this one works just fine, as should be apparent below in my own sig. Changing up the URL for your own messenger should do the trick. Cheers- Edit: Looks like blue has had the same issue in this thread. Synchronicity! -Alan

I recommend you check out BBGallery. I've used it in the past, and it works nicely. It does use perl, but it generates a completely static gallery with thumbnails and slide show. It's a nice tool for putting large static galleries (or galleries of galleries, even) onto a CD archive.

I second snipe's recommendation for Magpie RSS. I use it in numerous places, and like it a good deal. It's easy to set up and use -- you can just about drop it into place and add a few lines of PHP code to have a functional feed added to an existing page. Works great.

HCS: What email client are you using? Both Thunderbird and Evolution can be set up really easily to use bayesian filters like bogofilter. Lately, however, even my bogofilter-Evolution pair is letting a lot of stuff through, thanks to the random spacing and garbage characters the spammers are inserting. Worth a try, still.

I don't have experience with rsync, but I can weigh in on the value of syncing software in general: It's a whole lot smarter than FTP. I use unison everyday to sync work files between three linux machines and a windows desktop. In the case of maintaining a web site, rsync or unison could be used to keep a local backup or seamlessly develop material on one server before syncing it to the production server. Of course, both rsync and unison need ssh, so they're no gos here at TCH, but they're both worth exploring if you do work at multiple PCs. Unison works great, for instance, to keep documents, mail folders, and data current. All that said, it looks like sitecopy will make a good substitute. I'll have to check it out. -Alan

Good question. Dialup makes this more complicated. I think it will work: One PC is used to dialup, and it's also set to share its internet connection via DHCP; you then run an ethernet cable from the desktop to the router's "in" port, and the router then provides the connection to the remaining desktop and the wireless laptops. It's less sleek this way, for sure, because you have to manually dialup on the master PC, and only then can you go sit in the yard with the laptop. I don't actually have experience setting up a network quite this way, so others will have to weigh in on whether it really will work!

I agree with HC and gaberville here -- a router will get you up and running really easily, while mucking around with software networking will only lead to suffering (and that leads to the dark side, and so on... or was it the other way around?). In your case, a router will act as a central point of distribution for the internet connection for your four PCs. The setup is relatively simple: You'll set up the router by telling it to perform network address translation and assign local IPs to your four PCs; set up each of your PCs to use DHCP; plug in the desktop PCs to the router's network ports; point the wireless adaptors on the laptops to the router and tell them to also use DHCP (this step will vary a bit depending on security settings; I recommend setting up pretty strong access control, which means you'll have to identify the hardware addresses of all your ethernet adaptors and generate a wireless encryption protocol key -- none of this is hard to do once you have the router). Your incoming internet connection then plugs into the router, and will handle (quite transparently, from the PCs point of view) everything from there. Like Bruce says, the router will also add some firewall capability -- on the subject of security, you'll want to configure your router pretty carefully. Look for a multi-port wireless router, which has both ethernet ports and wireless capability. Since you already have wireless adaptors in the laptops, you're mostly home. You should be able to get a good router at just about any computer store these days for $50 to $70. Some people argue that you should try to match the router manufacturer to your wireless cards, but that's not really necessary. I've had really good experience with a Microsoft MN-520 router. Others swear by home-office routers made by Linksys, Netgear, and D-Link.

In followup to my redirect question, here's another small issue I'm having. The redirects are working great, but I'm seeing some 404 errors in my stats for URLs like /archives/000341.html%201. Now, any link to /archives/000341.html gets redirected appropriately, but with the %201 appended, browsers get a 404. I wonder if I could use rewrite to eliminate anything after the .html extension -- would the redirect rules then get applied properly? I tried this line >RewriteRule ^/archives/(.*)\.html $1 [L] thinking that I could match the filename up to the end of the .html extension, but it didn't seem to work. (And I'm not even sure if that's the right style of regexp.) Suggestions? (Edit: Corrected an obvious typo in the rewriterule, but still no love from apache.)

Firefox also blocks popups. I haven't seen one in well over a year! Whohoo!

I wish I could keep my ISP address under wraps. I've never sent a single thing from it, but I get so much spam there that I don't even read it anymore. Thanks for raising the work:benefit ratio of email, Cox Communications!