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Dapper to Hardy in 23 painful hours

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers

I I finally set about upgrad­ing my home server1 from Dap­per to Hardy yes­ter­day. I had been hop­ing for a less trau­matic expe­ri­ence then upgrad­ing my desk­top com­puter from Dap­per to Gusty2. Unfor­tu­nately I once again ran into prob­lems. First off, it’s been nearly a week since Hardy was offi­cially released but when I tried […]

Tags: Dapper, hardy, linux, sysadmin, ubuntu, Upgrade

Read more | Comments (3) | Apr 30, 2008

Now-Reading Tweaks

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Plugins, WordPress

I use Rob Miller’s excel­lent Now-Reading plu­gin to track all the books I’ve read and am read­ing here at Cof­fee­Bear. After my recent site upgrade I decided to tweak the sin­gle book tem­plate for my library. I noticed that the lat­est ver­sion of Now-Reading allows you to note who read a given book on multiuser […]

Tags: Books, Code, Now-Reading, PHP, Plugins, Upgrade, WordPress

Read more | Comments (6) | Apr 25, 2008

Library Fixed and Other Changes

Posted by Mark | Filed under WordPress

The library issues I was hav­ing appear to be resolved. When I upgraded Word­Press, I sim­ply over­wrote the exist­ing files (‘cuz I’m lazy) and then I went into my perma­link set­tings and hit the update but­ton (with­out actu­ally mak­ing any changes). This is sup­posed to be enough to get the plu­gin I use for the […]

Tags: Now-Reading, Plugins, sysadmin, WordPress

Read more | Comments (4) | Apr 23, 2008

WordPress Upgrade

Posted by Mark | Filed under WordPress

I’ve finally upgraded CoffeeBear.net to Word­Press 2.5. I’m in the process of get­ting every­thing set­tled in prop­erly and at the moment my library is work­ing quite so nicely. At the moment the link for the library at the top of the page does not work (you’ll get a blank page) how­ever if you go to […]

Tags: sysadmin, Upgrade, WordPress

Read more | Comments (1) | Apr 23, 2008

Upgrade Complete

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software

I fin­ished up all the upgrades to my home PC putting me on Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gib­bon). Unfor­tu­nately none of the auto-magical upgrade tools pro­vided by Canon­i­cal worked for me, so all my upgrades were done via cli, using apti­tude. Mostly this means I had to repeat­edly run “sudo apti­tude dist-upgrade”, inter­spersed with removing/installing specific […]

Tags: compiz, Gutsty, Kubuntu, Upgrade

Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 9, 2008