Month: June 2005

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!]

Little tired today

Chad

We’ve finally gone ahead and got ourselves an out-of-family babysitter. The good thing is it gives us a lot more flexibility in what we can do and how long we can be out, but the bad thing is now this costs us money.

So last night we had the baby sitter come over so me and the wife could go out to dinner and then find some place to shoot pool for a couple of hours. We ended up being out til almost midnight. It’s been awhile since I’ve been in a bar, so I was shocked to see how expensive drinks and pool have become. The place we started at, it cost 1.25 per game of pool. What a rip! We ended up at an old roost, where pool was only 75 cents but drinks were still a little pricey. I was lousy at pool, I only ended winning 2 games. All in all it was a lot of fun.

June issue of Tux available

Chad

Get it whiles it’s hot!

Dear TUX Subscriber,

Your June issue of TUX is now available for you to download, https://www.ssc.com/tx/issues/StartDownloadTUX.php?issue=3&month=June&year=2005&id=7448 .

This issue features:

*From the Publisher: Does Linux Play well with Others
*From the Editor: Linux Does Windows
*Letters to the Editor
*Q&A with Mango Parfait
*Tux Paint for Kids
*iPod and Linux
*How to Install MEPIS 3.3 Simply
*K3b, and Feel the Burn
*GIMP Chrome and Metal Effects
*K3b, and Feel the Burn
*All about Screensavers, and Why You Want to Run Them
*Going Guru: Michael’s Top GIMP Tips
*Review: Quasar Accounting
*Review: CES 2005 Edition
*Review: MEPIS
*Review: Autopackage

The file size of the June issue is approximately 3.8mb.

Once you download and open your magazine, the PDF will automatically launch in full screen view. You can reduce the size of the PDF to window view mode at any time by simply pressing ‘Esc’.

For easier navigation of the magazine you may wish to turn on Bookmarks. You may do so by pressing ‘F5’ or using the menu across the top of the Adobe Acrobat Reader window and selecting ‘Window’ > ‘Bookmarks’.

Sincerely,

Carlie Fairchild
info@tuxmagazine.com

TUX magazine
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