Well I am completely done with the move… finally. As it stands I had been pretty much dragging my feet getting the other services moved over and working. The domain I have my email sitting on is not even being used as a website anymore but I have been using it for email for about 3 years now so I have alot of stuff going there. Might as well keep it.
With a completed move comes an account closure. I was planning on possibly keeping my old Dreamhost account but I have opted to close it in order to save funds. On that same note anyone wanting to drop in a few dollars here or there is welcome to do so. I’m going to put up a chipin block on the site soon for anyone that wants to do so. It will be set for the monthly server costs and I will start a new one each month. At the present moment the server costs are $60.95. I’m not kidding. You can check out Linode’s site yourself. It is the VPS 1536 plan plus one additional IP.
In addition to that if anyone wants to host a website here just let me know what you want to do and I’ll consider it. Anyone that requests is expected to chipin to some degree since we will be sharing the server and provide their own domain name. No, you won’t be given admin rights on the server but I’ll be pretty loose on what you can do.
I’ve updated to WordPress 3.0.1 as it just came out yesterday. I’ve also temporarily disabled WP-SpamFree for now. :p
Anyways I’m still working on how to deal with the OpenID issue for signups and stuff. I want there to be plenty of options as I am one of many who do use SSO methods for some sites (some use facebook — others google accounts).
Oh and this theme may or may not stay. Vast improvement over the prior version but I don’t know…
Whew… Done with the move finally. The main thing is that the server already feels snappier to me than it did on Dreamhost. I had a bit of a hiccup and that was that Dreamhost defaulted to utf8 (or so it seems) but the server here did not so I had to do some crafty creation. Once that was done it went in like a charm. I plan to do some other adjustments like add a global mysql management and have a sub-domain added in to handle that. Currently I’ve got it over on my test domain.
Hopefully there won’t be any surprises with the plugins. :p
Update: speak of the devil. As soon as I posted this I checked to see if caching was working and it was broken. I’ve fixed that so that it is now working.
Whew… Takes a long time to configure a new server. I have pretty much everything as I need it. The server is setup that all I need to do is add a domain and it is good to go right away. The only other thing I would need to do is migrate dns information and modify the nameserver list at my registrar.
In other news I have updated WordPress to 3.0 (finally) as well as several plugins. I have also disabled openid. The reason is because the plugin doesn’t actually work anymore on WordPress 3.0. It fails to do registration. Janrain Engage plugin appears to be a feasable alternative but it is already reported to be broken and the compatibility is 3.0 or newer… 
Anyways that still doesn’t take care of the fact that I also used this blog for authentication at a few places so I need to create a new openid end point that I can use. Something integrated in wordpress is preferred.
Update: One of my themes have updated and it looks quite nice so I switched over to that for a change of pace. I can get HTML validation rather easily but not CSS. At this point I don’t really care about that anymore but the nice little IE6 alert is staying put since that browser has plenty of security holes anyways.
As for Janrain goes… I probably won’t be using that at all. Still probably won’t be using that.
If anyone wants a demo of the speed for the new site you are welcome to check it out. It is the minefield site so it can change at will.
WordPress bleeding edge: http://www.esminefield.net/wordpress/
SMF 2.0 RC: http://www.esminefield.net/smf2/
Last but not least when I setup the site again I’ll likely do it fresh but I’ll restore the actual data from here to the new site. :p
I’ll be moving over to a new host soon. I’m updating name servers for this domain now but the dns over there is set to point to this host for now. This particular setup will not be updated but I’ll migrate the posts over and everything if I can.
Update: I have finished external access security (multiple groups depending on setup — initial users added to ssh group for password auth then migrating to sshkey once private key is setup which disables password auth and only allows that key for them. DNS is technically already over there for both elite-systems.org and robertpendell.com but I pointed the a record to over here. However the SPF record is pointing over there already. I don’t send email via the server but I set it up so that it can be done just in case. On that note the outgoing mail is setup as well. It is out only so I setup postfix to loopback-only mode. It does it quite nicely since it only binds to unix sockets rather than to ports which ensures it stays internal. 
Update 2: I dropped the other server. I’ve moved DNS to the same company which I have registered the domains and quickly pointed the main domains to the ip for them so this domain and another are back up and working for now. I am waiting on FDCServers to finish getting servers available so I can grab one. It will cost me considerably more but I think it will be worth it for the flexability.
Yes. I’m still around and kicking. I have not posted in a while though and I hope to rectify that soon enough. In the meantime I did some internal restructuring and got some files moved around.
I have plans for a potential series of tutorials on various projects. Among them is using netsh in more advanced ways. I have been figuring out ways to control network adapters using this method. I will also figure out other tutorials to write up as well. Have any ideas then let me know and I’ll try to write something up.
WordPress 2.8.6 was released today. It is a security update since it fixes 2 major security issues. One is a potential XSS vulnerability and the second is an issue where WordPress did not sanitize uploaded filenames. I am working to update this blog as we speak so it will run the most recent version.
Read more: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/
Update: I have applied 2.8.6 to this blog.
Well actually I never did to begin with but I think it is appropriate to push forward and get people to at least Internet Explorer 7. For those of you that are visiting with Internet Explorer 6 you will notice that you get a nice overlay showing alternative browsers. For some reason Internet Explorer versions below Internet Explorer 6 don’t get the popup but you do get greeted with lots of script errors in my testing.
Internet Explorer 7 or greater — Website runs in IE7 Compatibility mode.
Firefox 3.5 or greater
Opera 10 or greater
Apple Safari
Google Chrome
For those of you that are trying to use Windows 2000 you will need to switch browsers entirely to view the site without the overlay coming up each time you stop by the site. Luckily I just checked and Firefox 3.5 and Opera 10 will install and run in Windows 2000. However Google Chrome, Google Chrome Frame, and Apple Safari will not.
Still using Windows ME or older? Well I think it is just time to upgrade then. I don’t think anyone is still actively developing for those platforms and most companies have stopped supporting them entirely.
Ok. I found this great theme author on the internet. Stumbled upon one of his themes in action by pure chance. This theme is XHTML 1.1 and CSS 3 compliant right out of the box which is quite surprising. The theme is clean and works really well. I did check it on all browsers and it seems that the looks stays relatively consistent between browsers. I’m going keep tabs on his site because of that. Anyways enjoy.
P.S. – If you find a bug feel free to email me or drop a bug report on the bug tracker and I’ll look into it.
Update: Switched up the title a bit. Changed the first line of text to an image since I don’t expect everyone to have the font available on your system. It looks better anyways
You might of seen a few changes around here…. (looks around)
Maybe not. None the less I have been making a bunch of changes. A biggie here is a commitment towards XHTML 1.1 compliance on this theme and all future ones. This site will work on all currently major browsers. This include Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.5, Opera 10, Safari, and Google Chrome. Actually when I got this particular theme it was only rated for XHTML 1.0 compliance but has since been updated to be XHTML 1.1 compliant.
The other big change are various bugs with the theme. I made some adjustments to css code to make it align comments correctly and I have also changed the javascript loading so it uses wordpress native functions to load it and minimize conflicts. I think they will still happen but it should be less.
Update: To show the lack of conflicts I tested with a lightbox-light plugin to jquery (which this theme uses) and added it into the theme. It loads fine. I have only one image in here so I applied it to that and it worked fine.