…but I’m right! Get yer historical hero clay figurines now!
I see that the whole world but me has wrote (not muc) about Wordpress 2.3. I haven’t. I have been running it since the beginning, as soon as the 2.2 code was declared stable (really, before that). Perhaps I’ll write about it. You’ll notice that my site is reasonably responsive and that’s because of the new version of WP.
I’ve also installed Debian 4.0 on my machine. I’ll likely review it soon.
I also have a few movies that I should review. Maybe I’ll get to that after all.
Who knows.
I’ve had my ups and downs with the two Radeon cards that I’ve used. One, a 9500 Pro AGP 128MB, has the R300 chipset, which has “experimental” support. The other (in my machine now) is a Radeon 9550 AGP 256MB and it runs on the RV350 chipset. There is excellent support for the R200 and below and there is great support (soon to get better thanks to the opening of the specs - thanks ATI). However, anything above a 9250 and below the 9800 doesn’t have great support via x.org or even the proprietary Linux driver that ATI provides.
Ubuntu has been doing well at getting around this. I hadn’t really experienced much in the way of trouble with the cards until the release of Feisty Fawn (which got corrected as it approached “final” release) and after Gutsy Gibbon (7.10), which I installed to see where its at. I’m back to the hard locks, which don’t seem to have any specific type of trigger at all with the free x.org driver and seem to occur when I try anything 3-D, with the proprietary driver, which sucks, because I wanted to try playing “America’s Army” and the Western mod for Quake 3 (on OpenArena).
Oh well. Ironic post after the last flurry of comments, I am sure.
Sometimes I wonder why I bother playing around, as I just go back to the old standard, for the most part. Okay, that’s not really true. I’ve installed the network install version of Debian 4.0R1 (Etch). I also don’t know why I did it this way, as I just downloaded a few metapackages and ended up with a reasonably full system anyways. Interestingly, there is no GUI instant messenger client installed, though. When I searched for it (looking first for Pidgen, as the “Desktop” metapackage installed Gnome), I found Gaim, which has since been renamed to get AOL off their backs.
I guess that this isn’t that important, as I’ll probably hose this install anyways when my 80G drive arrives. I thought that I’d see what was up with the “base” for alll those popular distros out there, since I hadn’t kept up with it for quite some time. I do notice one thing so far that I really don’t like and that’s the fonts in Epiphany, the Gnome browser. They’re terrible. Maybe it’ll be back to Ubuntu again after all.
A while after I won my Sony NW-E403, I discovered podcasts. I hadn’t really downloaded and listened to very many of them, though. My usual internet downloads would be the weekly show from UnwelcomeGuests.net and Jeremy’s LQRadio podcast. I began to sporadically add to these, occasionally having to convert some of the low bitrate files to play on the Sony. After getting the Creative Muvo V100, that I referred to here, with its 1GB capacity and expanded file playability, I began to search around for other podcasts to listen to regularly.
It turns out that I may listen all week without hearing any music now! So, for those who have been interested in trying out this thing called Linux but need a bit more reinforcement, some of these podcasts might be useful to you. There are more out there, but I’m just getting into the swing of things.
Here’s the list:
I hope that someone finds this to be useful. I founhd all of these by googling the term “Linux Podcast” and checking the results. Podcast Alley is a great place to get lost, as is the Lottalinuxlinks page.
Four days ago, the Wordpress team announced the release of the first beta of the new 2.3 release. I’ve made no secret of the fact that this blog runs on a nightly development build, which I update about once a week (its noted in the footer of every page - linked too!).
The new tagging structure is in place and, seemingly, it performs reasonably well so far. I’ve been keeping up with the releases of Ultimate Tag Warrior and haven’t felt like trying to use the built in tags yet (although I have been using both to record the tags). With all of the topsy-turvy behavior with this site in this month, I’m surprised that anything actually works (and, if you’d seen what I’d done to cobble it back together, you’d be amazed too - enough to buy me a Keiths,especially since 8-pacs of cans are on sale).
The only speed bump that I’ve come across is a few compatibility issues with plugins, which are minor. With the new fallback to disable misbehaving plugins, I’ve not been worrying about that type of problem. The only thing that I’ve had an issue with is when activating or deactivating one, I don’t return to the plugin page. All I get is a blank page. I can get back by “erasing” the trailing end of the URL in the address bar to get back to just the plugin page. Whatever I’ve asked for has been done, so the function is there. Its just the “redirect” afterwards, which is a minor semantic fix. I may contact the various plugin authors for the ones that I use so that they can update their work this weekend.
As you can see, my site’s still here, despite a major hard drive failure. So, why not get more than your toes wet. The water’s nice!
Maybe comments are broken, as I don’t see any….LOL
I did a bit of a review of the Creative Muvo V100 that I just got. Check it out at MrCorey.com.
I don’t know how many people who have an idea that they want to write about but just don’t want to put it in print until they’ve revised it a bit. I do. Right now, I have 8 drafts of articles waiting to be written (some are just titles and one line saying, “write about this with this emphasis, etc” or whatever. They way drafts have been listed before is to have the title of the post/page sitting above the post to be written in the write panel of the admin. There could be a whole list there cluttering things up if you had a lot of unfinished business. I don’t know where this will go with further revisions or whether it will even stay in until 2.3 is out, but, for now, I’ve noticed in the current alpha of 2.3, that the list now stops after 3 on my write page with a reference link to 5 more. If I click that link, it brings me to a “Drafts” page, which is a feature that’s been asked for a few times on the wp-testers and other lists and forums. So now, if you have drafts to be published later, they get a seperate page like pages and posts do. This makes it a bit easier to find these drafts in a nice list, layed out the same way as the rest of the editable data on one’s site.
I think that a lot of people will like this feature when its polished well enough to go into the final release. Heads up!
