Sunday 4th December 2005
Upgrades
It’s been a few days of upgrades recently. First off was the new version of Firefox, released last week. The lightning-fast forward and back is great - especially noticeable when you click on a link halfway down a page, and hit back. No more reshuffling the page as the layout is recalculated. Also, error pages (server not found and so on) are shown as pages, instead of dialog boxes. That’s been a long time coming. The only downside is that most of the themes haven’t been upgraded, so I had to find a different one. Most of the plugins I used are now redundant, since tabs are a lot easier to work with. Overall, a highly recommended upgrade. (If you don’t use Firefox already, you really should try it!)
Yesterday was a not-quite seamless upgrade for my Kubuntu install. I think it took about three chunks of upgrades to sort itself out - each time it would upgrade about a third of the packages. But it eventually worked, and I like the minor upgrades to all the software that I use (and especially to the package manager!). And it’s so nice having the OS and all the programs you ever need sorting themselves out automagically.
I’ve finally got round to upgrading the software that powers this weblog. That’s been a long time coming too. So if you notice anything wrong (or badly styled) let me know. I’ve also got all the spam-filtering plugins disabled; I want to see how well the new version copes by itself. It’s like putting your head in a lions mouth to see if he’s hungry…
This post was brought to you by the words “Open Source”, “Free Software”, and “absolutely fantastic”. Oh, and probably “preaching to the choir” too.
I’ve just had a load of spam comments (which curiously never affected the drupal blog). They all appear to have got caught and made to wait in a moderation queue (I think it’s because they had too many links in them). It bodes well though
Comment by Steve — 7/12/2005 @ 7:20 pm
Mmmm, I hadn’t noticed that I was building up a backlog of spam comments in the moderation queue, so thanks for the pointer. And it turns out that both Nia and Mustafa had comments waiting there too… oops. Hopefully it’s got some kind of ‘learning’, seeing as I can mark posts as ’spam’ instead of just deleting them.
Comment by Andy — 8/12/2005 @ 12:22 am
[…] I initially wrote the code to run my website myself. In the last few months the amount of comment spam i was getting was out of hand, and causing me bandwidth problems. Coupled with the fact that my job is currently giving me plenty of oportunity to do coding, I have decided to follow other people, and use someone elses blogging software. So here we are, curtosy of wordpress which i chose as it seems to be used by so many other people. I am sure that I will get round to customising it in the fullness of time…. […]
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