I’ve finished jumping through all the hoops of setting up Google Apps for fealdia.org, so anyone wanting to test it out may bug me for an invitation. This means the folks idling on #fealdia @ freenode. 
WordPress has been upgraded to 2.5, along with the Google Analytics plugin. So far so good.
… is what I’d like say, but I also upgraded some Debian packages and ran out of disk space. >_<
Extending logical volume toaster to 600.00 MB
Logical volume toaster successfully resized
Last month I started writing a helper script for User-mode Linux: umlhelper. The idea was to script the creation/starting/stopping and make maintenance of UML instances easier overall. The virtual machine running the blog/wiki/etc has now been migrated to use the script.
This will make backing up easier as LVM snapshots are supported. On the other hand, it could cause some hiccups. I also halved the amount of memory available, to 128 MiB.
If this holds together to some degree, perhaps I’ll get around to actually releasing something.
I’ll probably be transferring fealdia.org from Godaddy to Sitelutions. There’s the price thing, and personally I hate the godaddy pages that are full of crap. Sitelutions has also been managing the DNS for quite some time now, so I figured it’s easier to keep all the stuff in one place.
Renewal at Godaddy is 10.19 USD, transfer to Sitelutions 8.15 USD (with one year extension), new domain price being 8.75 USD. My only complaint about Sitelutions is that their free dynamic DNS is still unsecure (see the ticket OOG-19685 that was created about a year ago). There are free services that have done this right, and one is FreeDNS.afraid.org – kudos to Joshua for maintaining the service all these years!
Anyway, this may or may not mean that the site is unreachable for a while in the future. 
Update 2008-03-22: The transfer will proceed on 2008-03-25.
Update 2008-03-27: Transfer was a success (no DNS downtime):
Domain ID:D106007585-LROR
Domain Name:FEALDIA.ORG
Created On:03-Apr-2005 09:38:51 UTC
Last Updated On:27-Mar-2008 03:32:28 UTC
Expiration Date:03-Apr-2009 09:38:51 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFERPERIOD
Registrant ID:GODA-011051396
Google Analytics has been now enabled for both the blog and the wiki.
If you are worried about your privacy on this or other sites that use Google Analytics for usage statistics (a lot of them do), I recommend installing the NoScript extension for Firefox (or using some other means to disable the javascripts in other browsers). With NoScript you can just mark google-analytics.com as untrusted and you’ve successfully opted out from (some of) Google’s evil future plans
I generally dislike the idea of one corporation having access to vast amounts of information, but privacy is something you can sell for a price nowadays – if you have any in the first place. Because of the extensive statistics Google Analytics provides, I started wondering whether I should start using it as well.
Thanks to a nasty exploit, toaster (and its host) is now running 2.6.24.2. WordPress was also upgraded to 2.3.2 earlier…
Ten days ago I started working on a script that should ease user-mode linux creation & maintenance, if I get around to finish the networking/Debian integration part, I’ll be migrating toaster to use it as well. That’d allow backups using LVM snapshots which would be neat
Upgraded this blog to use WordPress 2.3.1. Unfortunately, the theme I was using, tiga-06 didn’t make it and there does not seem to be a new working version. So, back to the crappy default theme, until I find some time & motivation to twiddle with themes again. Or actually start caring
I have been using Scuttle for semi-public bookmarks since 2007-05-28, and now it has been moved to links.fealdia.org. I may consider replacing it with another software at some point, due to the fact that the development seems to have stagnated somewhat and the project lead seems to be wary of accepting patches from others. One possible alternative is GetBoo which seems to have more features but seemed quite buggy and less usable in initial testing. Hopefully both projects will improve in the future
Some links:
wiki.fealdia.org is online now, running DokuWiki 2007-06-26 with the Battlehorse template. Waiting for some content to get moved from the old dokuwiki…
