Hey there, it’s me again. You know how I said I was going to do something radically different to the page? Well this isn’t it. I was not actually planning on putting a design like this up. Actually I was inspired by the discussion on Shackbattle T-shirts over at Shack News, where I saw this really cool font, entitled Base02. That’s what you see up there for my logo.

So what I’m trying to say with all this is that this isn’t the final site design, either. I have been experimenting with PHP-Nuke, but found it to have way too many options which I’ll never use. So I think what I am going to do is find out how to do my own news script, as that is the only way I think I will be satisfied.

In other completely random news (since I’m typing all this up anyway), I got my hands on copies of Mandrake Linux 9.2 and Slackware Linux 9.1 this afternoon. I am trying to set up a Linux server. Up until I installed Slackware I had it working great on Red Hat 9 with Apache and MySQL (to test my news script), and even had Samba working (for file sharing/backup purposes). Well I got Slackware installed with everything, since I just wanted to play with it for a little while. It was working pretty well. I then wanted to try Mandrake, but it burped out an error message when installing the LILO bootloader. So I went back to Slackware, meticulously selecting only the packages I need. Guess what? It also died when getting to the LILO installation. Coincidence? So I installed Red Hat again, and everything worked without a hitch.

^^^ Nobody cares. I know.

Well, someday I will have the real website up. Until then, later.

PS: Oh yeah, there are no comments at the moment. And I don’t know if there will be in the final site, either.

Update by m: Now, almost 24 hours later, I tried installing Slackware again (I think that would make like five installs total over the past day and half… ook). It turns out I was using “expert mode” and somehow made it so a few required things didn’t install. So I found the right setting (the “menu” install option) and it worked, although there are some issues that I don’t like. The init scripts are different enough from Red Hat’s that I at first had no idea what I was doing, and networking was configured during the install but my eth0 adapter was not activated at bootime. :/

Oh, and all iptables configuration has to be done by hand. Something I’d end up doing anyway, and something I guess one can expect from Slack 😉