grrr....stupid time warner

Looks like I'm headed back to Columbia tomorrow for sure. Time Warner decided to reset my IP address up there so now I have no webserver and no way to access my computer period. Of course there's software to fix all that but did I bother to install it before I left? I'll let you figure that one out on your own.

In blog updating news, I now have my top 10 all time artists list from last.fm in my sidebar. It's a new feature from them and it's mighty cool. I just like self-updating things.

In other news- Aimee is in Virginia and I miss her a bunch. :-(

Update...Success!

Oh the wonders of CSS. In case you couldn't tell, I got my header changed. I haven't bothered to look at this page in IE but I'm pretty sure it looks like a tangled jumbled mess in that browser. Oh well. Get a better browser is what I have to say. Things are quiet here in the town of Flo. I'm going to head back to Columbia for the day tomorrow so I can get things loaded correctly on my web server. I love the internet and now that I'm actually learning more about how things are run and the inner workings of the different parts, I wonder how it manages to function at all.

New Banner

This is my new banner for the blog. Spiffy, yes? Now, to put it at the top....this may take awhile...

I'm the Radical Militant Librarian the FBI Warned You About

Email Claims FBI is regularly "kicked around" by "radical militant librarians."

I can't believe the absurdity of these claims. But it does make for a good tag-line. I'd be proud to be called a "Radical Militant Librarian". It just oozes contradiction.

For anyone who doesn't think I've been working over the break here's proof I have.
http://serversamurai.servehttp.com
I've got a web server up and running!! w00t! Now I just need to get the PHP and MySQL cooperating on it (it's called a LAMP stack..look it up) and maybe I can get the servlet of my dreams running -- Feed On Feeds

Update

Well I hope I'm not speaking too soon but it doesn't look like GIR is that bad off anymore. It would seem that a faulty battery is the culprit. I'll keep my fingers crossed tho.

Worried

I'm a more than a little concerned for my laptop GIR. I just get home and have a hell of a time getting him up on the wifi at home. And now he's acting all buggy and strange. He wouldn't boot right when I first got here and things have just gotten worse. I'm afraid the hardware is on its last leg. I've thought this before and been wrong. I pray I'm wrong this time as well. I have a tap on another laptop I can get for pretty cheap but that's going to be awhile and it is no GIR. Oh well, things must change I suppose. Assuming GIR holds out I'll be making lots of changes here within the next week and a half before I head to Virginia to see my fiancee. Stay tuned.

Real quick like...

Just wanted to post a link to a couple new pics on my Flickr set.

They are here.

Geez

I just spent almost half an hour trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with the last post I made. It kept showing up all funky. At first I was going to blame Flock's blog editor (sorry I jumped to that conclusion, I love Flock. Really.) but now I realize it's stupid IE. If you view this blog in Internet Explorer you won't see it the way it was intended b/c IE is not a standards compliant browser. This blog (any on blogger.com) uses cascading style sheets and, in some cases, IE DOES NOT display them correctly. In IE the sidebar listing previous posts, music etc. is forced down to the bottom of the page. If I really wanted to I could use one of those CSS hacks to make IE display correctly but I don't have time for that. I'm going to include a link to Firefox on the sidebar for everyone who doesn't have this wonderful, versitile and secure browser. If you don't have Firefox, please do yourself a favor and get it.

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Computer Woes

I got an older computer from a friend with the intention of installing Linux and running a server off of it. Something to get my feet wet and learn. I decided to use Ubuntu since it was incredibly easy to install on my laptop.

What I went through with installing Ubuntu this time was really weird. I had the latest distro and it would get to the point where it was supposed to install the base system then it would just error out and not install at all. I have no idea what the problem was b/c I happen to have the previous release of Ubuntu (5.04) and when i ran that, it installed fine. The thing was, I had a problem- it didn't load the driver for my NIC. I went and found that there are in fact Linux drivers for it (surprisingly from Intel) so I downloaded them on another computer, stuck them on my flash drive, stuck the flash drive in the system and--- low and behold the USB drivers didn't load either />
So I stuck the NIC drivers on a floppy (.5 mb) and loaded them that way. Well, of course, the drivers had to be compiled and since Ubuntu doesn't install the necessary (e.g. any) Linux compilers I pretty much gave up. I didn't like alot of the default set-up in the desktop either, maybe it was just b/c it was an earlier version of GNOME. But anyway, I thought the disc I was using to try and install the latest Ubuntu was messed up (why else would the latest stable version not install and the previous one do fine? I take that back, the network interface in the older version was a little strange but that's a different story) so I burned a new disc, reformatted and I'm confronted with the same problem.

I checked the lists for a distro that was old computer friendly and SUSE and Red Hat came up. Red hat looks like it has a much larger user base but SUSE looks really cool and (hopefully) my experience with Ubuntu on my laptop has given me enough resources to draw on to deal with any problems it may contain.

Anyway, that's the long story of it. I'm at work, I finished everything for all of my classes so I'm sitting here reading a book on ASP so I can work on another webpage for my boss. I haven't had any caffiene (I can't believe the espresso machine at the library broke) and I'm hungry. I got the chatbot up on the server for my teacher but it's not going to be readily available to anyone until they do a site update, hopefully in January. I finished my digitial library project, but again, it's not up on the web. That will hopefully change by next week.

technorati tags: linux, ubuntu, drivers

The Long Haul

FINALLY!! I'm almost to the end. The end of the semester, how sweet it is. Compounded with a cold from hell you'd think I'd be pretty miserable, or at least broken and defeated. Fortunately, this isn't the case. I went to the beach this weekend and on Sunday I proposed to my (insert vomit inducing sweety sweet nickname here) Aimee. She said yes so there's not much that can really get to me now. I feel kinda weird. Like I've grown up all the sudden but it's ok because I know this is the only person I want to spend the rest of my life with. She is truly a wonderful and amazing creature and I can only wonder how I've made it this far without her but I'm happy knowing I won't have to go any longer alone. We have our whole lives ahead of us and I'm looking forward that more than anything.

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