That’s why all my blogs (both of them) now share the same theme (Scribbish), even though they run on two completely different engines.

To get you own WP-blog all pretty-like, you can grab ScribbishWP. You won’t regret it. :)

Because I was curious, I decided to give Wordpress a spin.

I broke all the old URLs (bad Alex, no cookie), but at least the old content came over to the new incarnation.

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OPEN ROOT/index.php
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Find:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid']!=0) {

Add after it:

$storepoints=$bbuserinfo['storep'];

Find:

} else {
  $welcometext = "";

Add after it:

$storepoints="0";

Sweet mother of god, what the HELL were you thinking? The whole document is 32kb long, all in the same vein. Why, oh why, didn’t you just make a diff of the sources? Oh right, probably because you’re one of those obnoxious Windows PHP “programmers” (and I use that term very loosely). To top it off, the archive contained 12 different hacks, all in the same braindead format. And we have to use this proprietary bulletin board system coughvbulletincough, because “we already paid for it, and because of all those cool hacks”.

This makes me wonder, why is there no easily extendable bulletin board software available? And with “easy”, I mean, through plug-ins, not through messing with the core program. I guess that’s one more thing on my things-to-code-when-you-have-the-time list…

• Get Red Hat 9 on the new server

• switch from qmail to postfix

• hope that by 2004-04-30, Fedora Legacy is up to speed

• and if Fedora Legacy is not up to speed, find a vendor like Progeny for commercial support

The qmail-to-postfix switch is almost done on my testserver, I have been able replicate almost all functionality of the old qmail/vpopmail setup, and postfix even offers some more stuff, like TLS for SMTP. With a MySQL backend, I now have POP3, IMAP and SMTP-AUTH working, all that remains to be done is to write a few perl scripts for easy domain and account management and a qmailadmin-like web frontend.

Since getting everything to work smoothly together required getting the info from a few websites, I’m going to document it, so it will be all in one place. [TLS]: Transport Layer Security [SMTP]: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

You don’t happen to need a ((Perl|PHP)-Programmer || Linux Sysadmin ), do you? ;-)

• runs on a server, so I can read my feeds from anywhere

• keeps a list of all the feeds I read

• checks the feeds regularly, while being net-friendly (conditional GET, etc.)

• shows me a list of all the recent entries that I haven’t seen before. Just a link and a title

Because even though I use an aggregator, I still visit every article and just use Amphetadesk as a glorified bookmark manager.

Does such a beast already exist?

_ It’s all or nothing,

and nothing’s all I ever get

Everytime I turn it on,

I burn it up and burn it out

It’s always something,

there’s always something going wrong

That’s the only guarantee,

that’s what this is all about

It’s a never ending attack,

everything’s a lie and that’s a fact

Life is a lemon

and I want my money back

_

Meat Loaf - Life is a lemon and I want my money back

Crazy is the new sane

I mean, it feels like almost everyone out there has gone apeshit, and no one really cares.

Dammit, I need action, adventure, excitement. With lots of photo opportunities, if possible.

Maybe I should become a pirate. Blogging the Seven Seas, taking from the rich and converting it all to rum, or something like that…

This rant…needs more coffee!