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Make your muvee contest
The company just launched the "My Vacation muvee" contest. Interested in a real simple piece of video editing software? Check out the "I'm new" page to find out more.
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Movable Type 3.1 released
Movable Type 3.1 launched - since the switch, life is still good with WordPress. I do miss MT's flexible templating (like Jon Hicks), but the rest of it works great. WordPress devs are working on the templating issue though. As for me, I submitted a bad patch to WordPress - not a good start. Via Photomatt.
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Don't know what to do with Gmail invites
So everyone has started giving away Gmail invites again because Google has started giving them out again. I don't really know what to do with them because most people would have one already by now.
Well, at the risk of being uncool and mainstream, I'm going to give 4 of them away to readers. Drop me an email or leave a comment.
For a start, I'll be giving them only to people whom I've heard from before. Just in case. If all 10 (OK so Bloglines tells me there are 296 subscribers to my RSS feed) of you already have a Gmail account, I'll waive this and give to just about anyone.
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Opera 7.60 Preview 1 for Windows
You can now (actually, since August 24) get Opera 7.60 Preview 1 for Windows. Cool new features: something called Medium-Screen Rendering that "reformats pages so they fit better on smaller screens", and speech-enabled browsing via XHTML+Voice 1.2!
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You are being served by Apache2 on Gentoo Linux
OK I got Postfix and courier-imap up and running now. Plus, switching to a 2.6 kernel was as simple as changing it in the web-based Linode Platform manager and rebooting. Just select a few things and click a few form buttons. Very nice.
The migration to the new server didn't go quite as smoothly as I'd hoped it to be, but all is good now and you are currently being served this webpage/rss feed by Apache2 web server running on a Gentoo Linux box.
I'm using this Virtual Private Server (VPS) setup offered by Linode.com which is an unmanaged User Mode Linux hosting solution. Which means I've had to take a crash course in system administration in the attempt to transform a base Linux system with minimal services into a production web server. It's hard because of the esoteric configuration that Linux is so notorious for, though it was still easier than I thought, and very satisfying when things progressed from a state of borkage to reasonable functionality. Gentoo's Portage probably played a good hand in making things easy. emerge, emerge, emerge.
I still need to set up a email services (the whole kahuna - MTA, LDA, AA) - any advice on this area would be very nice.
More on Gentoo, system administration, User Mode Linux, and Linode later.
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