Linux Hosted
Over the weekend with some holiday time I’ve been back to my home town for a little break from city life. I went back Thursday night and came back to Birmingham very late monday night/early Tuesday. I was late as I had randomly ended up in Leicester with one of my good friends and we had gone to see Alice in Wonderland, which was pretty good.
It had been quite an eventful but great weekend, saw the family and friends, witnessed a car crash in which the offending party hopped up and drove off and moved my website to my linux host. I’m trying to make room for another server so I’m consolidating various services so I can free up an IP address but a new virtual machine running exchange2010.
The move didn’t go as smoothly as I had planned, the application I used to create a dump of the DB has filled it with random text doubling the file size and caused lots of issues when I went to load it up. I instead reverted back to using MySQLDump on the Windows command line console.
Didn’t have many issues with the new setup, Apache 2.0 didn’t like the previous .htaccess and reported an “Internal Error Page” was quite annoying as I didn’t know what was going on until I checked the logs. After loading up the proper .htaccess file I just needed to enable mod_rewrite using the following command.
a2enmode rewrite
I’m pretty happy everything is working now, one thing that did annoy me running WordPress in ISS 6.0 is that the WordPress iPhone apps did not work but now that do as I’m back on linux so look out for a few more picture uploads.
Just one more site to move and I should be able to setup Exchange2010.
Up To Date
I’ve just done the rounds installing all of the various updates to wordpress and its plugins. I manage two main wordpress installs and a couple of others that are not currently in full operation but they still get updated. Now everything is fully up to date and secure on WordPress 2.9.2 and it didn’t even that that long. I can really notice a difference on this site since I’ve moved it to its own server rather than using my reseller package. Looks like I’ll be moving the rest from the reseller package.
Exchange 2007
I’ve pretty much finished setting up Exchange on my newish server over at UKS. I say pretty much but I started this post in December last year so its been going for some time now! I’m pleased with it. I found it quite usful installing it as it helped me fix some issues with the Exchange server I manage at work! I’ve been using the webui to access my email which I have quickly got annoyed with. As most do, I prefer firefox and as some may know you don’t get the fully featured OWA anything other than Internet Explorer, one main thing you can’t do is create message rules (Unless I am totally blind). Good news though as Exchange 2010 which is currently at RC stage fully supports all features in Firefox and other browsers.
Just with my current setup I can not upgrade / install Exchange 2010 as I have run out of IP addresses / have no compatiable servers… yet… so I will have to stick with 2007 for a while.
On other note I’m appreciating how awesome WordPress is, its so easy to upgrade/add plugins unlike PHPBB which I have been working with lately, it reminds me why I did not follow a career in Wed Development / Design.
Although, when is anything easy?
New Look
I was going to wait till the imminent release of WP 2.8 but I found myself wondering the realms of the internet and wound up activating the new look for this weblog. What do we think?
Talking of things being released; The new iPhone named “iPhone 3G S”, the S meaning speed has been announcement as it deemed to be released in to the wild very soon on the 19th June! I think I may find myself outside an O2 store very soon.
Update: Appears Wp 2.8 is being released tomorrow!
iPod Touch and Replacement Phone
I got myself an iPod Touch today, well it came today I ordered it on monday after Matt, a flatmate pushed me over the edge and I took a leap and ordered one. I had been thinking of getting one for a while but decided against as the new generation was not to far in the distance which is what I have got.
It was a few differences apparently including a speaker and a volume button on the side. Overall I’m very impressed with this little device! I’ve put some music on it, set up googlemail and my uni e-mail (impressive) and I’ve downloaded a few must have apps for example the wordpress app which I’m using to write this post.
The main reason I got this was to help me organise myself, at uni I find a always need a pc to check e-mail and update my calender but the touch is my answer as there is a wifi network on campus and I can access pretty much anything from anywhere with a hotspot! Great!
Another package also turned up today, my new k850i as mine broke and Orange insurance kindly got a new one sent to me in under 24hours! Magic!
