The update is currently in progress, you can expect this site to be down within the hour.
Within the next day or two this site will go down for a server upgrade, it will probably remain down for some time though I will try to make the migration of the websites to the new server as quick and painless as possible.
This has been necessitated as the current server base on which this site sits is simply too old to be secured and has faced numerous security issues, including an apparent hijacking by a botnet.
The upgrade will increase the OS security a great deal, while allowing me to do an audit of active services and scale down to those that are actually in use.
Some services such as the svn server may take a little longer than others to be migrated. I will keep everyone posted.
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It’s a song day !
Today’s song is a special dedication for my beloved wife, one of her favorite songs (she can play it very sweetly on the acoustic guitar) it is a sweet little love song that always reminds me of her.
So KittyCat, this one is for you.
You’re so great – Blur
Sad, drunk, and poorly
Sleeping really late
Sad, drunk, and poorly
Not feeling so great
Wandering lost in a town full of frowns
Sad, drunk, and poorly
Dogs digging up the ground
And I feel the light
In the night and in the day
And I feel the light
When the sky’s just mud and grey
And I feel the light
When you tell me it’s OK
Cos you’re so great, and I love you
Drink tea and coffee
Helps to start the day
Drink tea and coffee
Shaking all the way
City’s alive and, surprise, so am I
Tea, tea and coffee
Get no sleep today
And I feel the light
In the night and in the day
And I feel the light
When the sky’s just mud and grey
And I feel the light
When you tell me it’s OK
Cos you’re so great, and I love you
OpenWP – the joomla integrated wordpress component which powers this and many other sites have been officially discontinued. The reason as stated by the developer at joompro solutions is the decision by the Joomla core team to retain it’s GPL license, and their belief that this applies to outside components. Although the wordpress integration is a free software project, the same developer has commercial projects he believes will be harmed by this decision.
With this it also ends the development of the openwiki and opensef projects. Whether these projects will be restored later.
Of course this has a massive downstream impact on sites like mine. The outkafe wiki which is openwiki based will need to move, but that can be delayed a bit. Hopefully this particular component will be forked from the last release because it’s the only proper wiki component for joomla.
As for the blog, I am between two choices, one is to fork openwp myself and continue it. I have however decided against this. My reason is that openwp was never fully compatible with it’s upstream source, the integration was great – but the lack of compatibility meant that sites like mine were always behind the main wordpress tree. Moreover plugins sometimes didn’t work. themes didn’t work at all (though this was because the component aimed to follow joomla templates) – etc. etc.
Since this blog doesn’t use user registration anyway, it is my believe that I can replicate all the capabilities of the component by simply using joomla’s wrapper component – and gain that compatibility which is currently missing. Apart from migrating my own antispam plugins this should be a fairly painless excercise. I will do my best to keep the URL’s the same.
Update: The migration s complete, most stuff came through pretty clean, but it wasn’t perfect. Biggest loss would be that many older comments are not linked to the right posts anymore, luckilly there are very few of those. Things should be good to go with little noticeable difference, even the RSS URL’s should be the same.
