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I have recently been trying out Arch Linux again. After working with Slackware Linux for some time now, I felt a need to explore another option. Basically I decided that what I needed for a server system might be quite different from what I needed for a desktop workstation. Slackware is awesome for server work, but is somewhat conservative. This makes is less attractive for desktop systems where having later versions of software is more desireable. Arch Linux is also compiled for i686 architecture from top to bottom, as opposed to Slackware’s i486 default. This makes a difference in performance that I notice. What I did not expect was a crash course in just how different two flavors of Linux can be. Slackware uses System V structure. Since I’ve used mostly Slackware, that’s what I’m most used to. Arch Linux uses BSD structure, and that is a totally different way of organizing things. It has been quite an adventure learning how to do the same things in the different environment. I can’t say that one is better than the other, but they are definitely two distinct species. So the next time someone claims to be a Linux guru, I will nod and ask, "but which Linux?" -= G =- I took the time tonight to browse old posts according to category, in the hopes of remembering what the missing categories might have been called. After staring at the screen a lot and searching for what each group of posts had in common, I did finally remember. Two of the categories were named for blogs that got folded into this one: ‘Gryphon in the Wild’ and ‘Gryphon Looks Out.’ A third was called ‘Technoid’ because the posts dealt with the crunchy bits of some computer topic. The fourth was an old iteration of ‘Site Admin.’ I’ve now added the missing categories, reassigned the posts, and deleted the ‘Lost Category x’ series. While I was at it, I re-categorized some of the posts. My scheme has changed over time and it was a chance to retrofit the changes over at least some of the posts. Now that I have that straightened out, I need to find some other mischief to work. Hmmm. WordPress has posted a beta version of the next release…. -= G =- I finally got around to exporting the posts from the old Geocaching blog and moving them here. It took a while because the blog ran under an old version of WordPress that did not support export. Soooo…. it had to wait until I felt motivated to upgrade the blog to the current version to export the posts so I could delete the old blog. But it’s done. The old posts are now here under the old categories. I’ll leave an anchor post in the old blog until I feel energetic enough to write a redirect to make it come here automatically. -= G =- We seem to have finally figured out that my wife’s computer has some problem that disrupts some network communication just often enough to mess up posting to her blog. I figured this out by taking the post she was trying to publish and doing it from my system. No problem. So I guess I need to do some detective work to find out what’s going on. That should be fun. In any case, I don’t think we can blame Windows Live Writer for the issue, nor Zoundry Raven for that matter. This is actually good, because WLW looks like a really good package and a real upgrade from the capabilities of Raven. I’m using it to compose this post and I’ll be testing it more in the near future. In the meantime, I’ll be trying to figure how to catch the invisible gremlin in Jen’s computer. Wish me luck. -= G =- Well, I’ve tried tags and I prefer categories. I really did not like the tag cloud as a way of presenting category data. I also discovered that Live Writer has a nice pop-up for selecting categories, but not for selecting tags. The built-in WordPress editor at least has that. So it’s back to categories for now. -= G =- I’m trying out Windows Live Writer as a vehicle for publishing blog posts. Zoundry Raven has gone open source and the current version is way out of date. Jen has tried Live Writer and got a good first impression. I’m involved now because there are apparently some issues it has publishing to WordPress blogs… -= G =- One thing I noticed when my category titles vanished is that it happened right around the time tags became all the rage. I’m not sure when WordPress ramped up its support of tags, but I would not be surprised if the upgrade that ate my category titles was one that added new support for tags. I’m sure this was not intentional, and it may have been coincidental, but the timing is interesting. In any case, I am taking the hint. WordPress has a handy two-way tag to category to tag converter, and I have used that to change the known categories to tags. The lost categories can stay categories until I decide what to do with them. Some time back in a WordPress upgrade, my category titles vanished. At first I thought the categories had been completely deleted, but then I realized that the names had simply been set to null strings. It took a while to notice this, and by then it was too late to revert to an old version to see what the titles had been. With the latest upgrade, I have tried to figure out what I could from context and rename the ones I couldn’t figure out. So, no, I don’t have multiple categories for discussing the TV series…. -= Gryphon =- Why speak Back in January, my wife and I returned to the EverQuest on-line game after absence of nearly five years. Shortly after that, we discovered EverQuest II. As much as we had enjoyed EQ, we did have a lot of issues with the way things worked in the game. Were were delighted to find out the EQ II had fixed nearly everything that annoyed us. We were hooked. and we’ve both been playing a lot. Jen has her other crafts, but EQ II is what I do in my spare time now. I thought I would share my experiences here. There’s just so much that happens that’s so cool, I feel like I want to tell people about it. Besides, it’s something to do while waiting to zone…. -= G =- |
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