So, I grabbed the latest & greatest of WordPress — wow, has it changed.

I’ll have to play around with this some more, but I’m favorably impressed!

I hate spammers as much as the next person — please be aware that it’s really not me sending these damnable things.

This is in no way a condemnation of WordPress — I just need “more power!” (Arrr arrr arrr)

I’ve moved all of my blog content to csquared.org, and will eventually redirect the ciulla.org domain there.

After messing about with GoDaddy.com’s hosting, this is like heaven. I was up and running in exceptionally short order — even the domain was propagated in no time flat. I did run into a bit of a problem with adding on the ciulla.org domain, but this stems more from my impatience than anything else as I tend to forget that propogation takes time.

While it’s tempting to completely dog GoDaddy’s service offering, they do a great job for their target audience — folks new to web hosting.

Once I get all of the old content off of ciulla.org, I’m definitely cancelling GoDaddy’s hosting service.

My battered remains are found by future archeologists and properly buried with “A Good Man Lays Here” inscribed upon my grave marker.

How cool is that?

Check it out.

WordPress database error: [Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_52d8_0.MYI' (Errcode: 17)]

Within seconds, I was on the horn to tech support. After waiting on hold for less than 5 minutes, the tech support guy checked with the “guys in the back room” and confirmed there was an issue on the server where my WordPress DB resides. While he couldn’t give me an ETA, he did try to sell me an additional year or two of service.

After watching Hell’s Kitchen for a bit, I checked again, and normalcy was restored.

Phew.

Then, when I initially attempted to save this post, I got the same error.

As a professional geek, I truly understand that this kind of shit happens. Let’s hope this doesn’t happen again.

At least not in the near future.

Anyway, I put the finishing touches upon the tableless version of my resume. After fighting with unordered lists and list elements for the better part of today, I threw in the towel and changed everything to paragraph tags. Despite this, I think it looks pretty sharp. It just bugs me that CSS doesn’t do what I think it should do. Either that, or the way IE and FireFox renders stuff.

It’s been so effective, I have to write about something else, I suppose…

So, here’s what I’ve been doing for the past couple of days (besides working, of course):

• Working on a CSS-only (read: non-table) version of my resume
• Looking for a very lite content mangement system for the site’s static content
• Fixing overheating issues on the other computers laying around the house and playing family System Administrator
• Playing around with a second-hand copy of SuSE Professional 9.1

CSS-only Resume
Like any decent technology, I have a love/hate relationship with CSS. Why the hell can’t it just do what I want it to do?

Lite CMS
I’ve been playing around with Rodin on localhost. It may do the trick, but I’ll have to tweak the theme a bit.

Family System Administrator
Teri’s machine was overheating, so I plunked down some cash on a couple of fans. One’s an adjustable drivebay fan that sticks out from the front of the case, and the other was a 60mm rear case fan.

Other than hunting down the power pins on the mobo, installing the drivebay fan was a no-brainer.

The 60mm rear case fan came with mounting screws… Assuming you had a freakin’ wood computer case. Wood screws. Needless to say, I was rather torqued.

Fortunately, the drivebay fan worked like a champ, negating the need for the rear case fan.

Naturally, the kids’ computer system was having similar overheating issues, especially when playing a CD-based game. So, back to the computer store. I got the same fan I put in Teri’s machine.

You won’t fool me twice, ya bastads. Wood screws. Grrrrr.

How sad is this?
As I mentioned above, I’ve been playing with SuSE 9.1 I bought a couple of months ago at Half-Price books for 45 bucks. I spent about 45 minutes slapping it on an old laptop, and it works great. Now, I need to put it on my dedicated linux box, which is currently running SuSE 8.something.

Getting to the sad part… Here’s the list of the devices attached to my network right now:

• WRT54g Router
• a 6 port switch
• a 4 port switch
• The Heathen’s WinXP Home box
• Teri’s WinXP Home box
• my WinXP Pro box
• my Linux file/web/MP3 server
• my WinXP Pro “work” laptop
• my Linux “play” laptop
• my Rio Karma MP3 player
• and, my Sharp Zaurus

I am so glad I’ve been replacing all my energy wasting incandecent bulbs.

LIN-you-ex
I’ll have to get around to writing about my favorite Linux story, but the gist of it is a guy I used to work with pronounced “Linux” as “Lin-you-ex”. I usually say that when I’m being extraordinarily geeky — Well, more so than usual.

I couldn’t think of a good title for this post, so for now, “It’s Lin-you-ex.”