Day: June 4, 2005

Shane Hmiel has been suspended indefinately

Chad

I consider myself to be a fairly big Nascar fan, but with all the other crap in my life I find it hard to keep up with all the goings on of Nascar. Meaning the things outside of the actual races.

Now, if you’ve been following the Busch series this year(something I’ve been fairly able to do), you’ll know that Shane Hmiel has been somewhat in the spotlight more than once and not the good spotlight.

I really have nothing against Hmiel, but I’ve been unimpressed by his over-aggressive style and lack of respect he was showing his fellow racers. Well today while reading some stuff on NOL, I see that Hmiel has been suspended …again… for substance abuse. Maybe this really explains a lot. However this is his second time, and I feel it’s time for Nascar to basically ban him from the sport, or at least all their series. There’s no room for this, or the attitude he’s been sporting all season. It’s too bad, because he has talent and he was just wasting it away.

WordPress RSS times fixed in latest release??

Chad

To me, one of the biggest annoyances of wordpress feeds was the fact the post times in the RSS feeds never matched the actual post times. What that would mean is that when my aggregator would update, new entries from sites that use wordpress would always be buried pretty far down the list.

Now since I’ve updated this blog, I’ve noticed in my reader that my entries actually appear with the right times and appear in the appropriate order with other sites that have updated. This makes Chad very happy!

Please, wordpress users, perform this simple update!

FC4 delayed another week

Chad

Well, I really thought this upcoming Monday was going to be a huge day for Linux fanatics. The next release of Debian, codenamed Sarge, and the next Fedora Core, rumored to be named Stentz were both scheduled to be released. Well, Fedora has now been pushed back another week and won’t be released until June 13th. I hope my weekend doesn’t get completely ruined and that the Sarge release stays on track. Even though Ubuntu is completely keeping me satisfied on the desktop, I’m really looking forward to FC4.

Not all upgrades went smoothly, but are complete

Chad

I went ahead made sure all software for my sites were up to date last night. The blog upgrades went really well. However, upgrading my wiki wasn’t the most fun. After upgrading it from mediawiki 1.4.2 to 1.4.5, I was getting an undefined function error that was preventing the wiki from loading. This server is running RH 7.3 and php is only at version 4.1.3. Turns out that in one of the last releases of mediawiki they use a new function that is only available in php 4.2.0 and above. I was a little bummed at first because there is no way I’m updating php. So I decided to get a little adventurous and went in to the code and found the referenced function and commented out that line. It looked like it was something that was used for debugging anyways. Much to my surprise after commenting out that line the site worked perfectly.

I’m only weeks away from a major server upgrade where these issues should go away for a couple of years. [praying that sarge is actually released next week!]