hmm, I can’t just leave this blog post-less. let me think of something to write.
ok here’s one. My deepest sympathy to Mr Gael Duval over the recent event of his being laid off from Mandriva. Well, of course, I’m the least qualified person on earth to be sympathetic about people being laid off. But, it’s not often that company fired their [co]-founder, no?
If anything, Mandriva was the first Linux distribution I tried (was Mandrake back then). I don’t currently use Mandrake, though. (I hardly use Linux at all, anyway).
Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985 only to return in 1997 and has since been responsible for Apple’s emerging success. Will there be similar scenario for Mr Duval?
Wordpress 2.0.2 was out three days ago.
Upgrading a default wordpress installation, we only need to worry about our template files, which we in the end don’t need to worry about, because of the convenience of having one directory dedicated for one template.
If we happen to have a modified version of wordpress, that is, we modified some of the core files, there would be extra things to consider when upgrading.
How do we keep track of which files did we modify; Does the new version of wordpress modify the same files?; If it does, how do we merge these two branches of changes?
In my case, Subversion (short: svn) come to my rescue. I learned a little about subversion couple of months ago, and now I feel lucky that I did. I happen to have my customized wordpress stored into svn repository. With this, it’s very convenient to keep track of the modification I did from time to time.
But then, I never performed a wordpress upgrade before, so this time when I did, it took quite a while to plan it. We don’t want to introduce unnecessary mess, do we?.
anyway, long story short, I’m done with it. And I’m now anxiously waiting for whatever bugs that I might’ve introduced to the wordpress installation during the custom upgrade.
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I registered for the domain Saturday night, and this morning (after 36 hours) I received some kind of progress-report email, from the registrar, saying that my domain was still pending, and I was required to fax some credential information, including my credit card.
oh my. I won’t fax them.
without further ado,… I decided to cancel that miserable order, signed up immediately at yahoo, and quick as to blink your eyes, I got a confirmation email from yahoo saying my domain is now active (of course, subject to DNS record propagation, which will take few hours nowadays -heck few years back this propagation used to take days-).
great, everything is now fine. hopefully.
welcome to nekudotayim.com, nekudotayim.com.
what’s up with the name?
what is nekudotayim, anyway? if you fancy a little reading, there is a [very short] Wikipedia entry on paamayim nekudotayim. Suffice to say that I simply love the word just enough to have an email address and domain name with it. And it happens to be coincident with my fondness of using the Scope Resolution Operator (the “::” sign) in my coding.
not exactly in vain. and not totally waiting either.
I purchased domain nekudotayim.com some twelve hours ago, and had ever since checked my email like crazy every five minutes or so; because the registrar didn’t send me any single email. Well, at least, please send email that confirm my purchase. Never mind the email about how the domain name is progressing.
Well, wait no more, they said. Because couple of minutes ago I finally received the confirmation email. Plus a reminder that it might take up to 24 hours before my new domain is completely processed.
Not so long ago I did a domain name purchasing on yahoo, the new domain name was up in less than 1 hour!
But, I am patient.
I can wait for another 24 hours. I have no plan to announce the new domain publicly anyway,… so…
But hey, even while domain name still in progress, I can already access this site using http://www.nekudotayim.com/. It is possible because I have set everything up on the virtual hosting at 3fn.net; and with a little tricky DNS manual override in my own computer, I can have my browser to go to http://www.nekudotayim.com/ directly.
With this, the sales guy that has been keeping me waiting can still keep me waiting for does not matter how long he thinks he can keep me waiting; I dont mind.
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