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So it didn’t take me long to want to upgrade hey? Here’s a quick overview of what I did:
Backed up my WordPress database.
Backed up my theme and plugins.
Downloaded version WordPress 2.3, get it here if your wondering.
Deleted everything associated to WordPress apart from .htaccess, /images/ and wp-config.php
All plugins work fine, SocialBookmarkButtons, Feedburner Feedsmith, Live Post Preview, WWSGD, Wp-Mint, Subscribe to comments and Askimet
Problems posting, just hundreds of errors, converting all categories to tags.
Turns out Extended Live Archives were causing the problem. Problem sorted.
All in all, a perfect trouble free installation!
Other than that I added gravatar support! Removed Categories, everything is changed to tags now. Enjoy! I know I will!
Side Note: If anyone wants any help with their Wordpress upgrade please give me a shout! Or if you just want to know if a certain theme or plugin works drop me a comment!
Today my hosting company Servage.net unveiled a new Webmail feature! Instead of just Squirrel Mail, I now have the option [’if using webmail’] to use Roundcube Beta! For anyone who doesn’t know what Roundcube is:
RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface providing full functionality like MIME support, contacts and filters. It is written in PHP with MySQL and implements web standards such as XHTML and CSS
Or in plain English, its Ajaxy and handy! Overall it’s been implemented very nicely and its something I’d love to see another few hosts add! Blackknight, pay heed it’d be a cool feature to get you ahead of the crowd! The project page is here.
Firstly, via Wired a image of the linux file system see it here!
Next an interesting one, the Simpsons new series [I’m amazed that they still have something to do an episode on…] will pick up where from the movie started off! You can see the new intro here.
Just reading about Blogrush [referal link] now and decided I will give it a whirl, unlike other traffic generating programs, it takes no work, no money, and apparently provides a nice amount of traffic, [we will see about that]. Almost seems to good to be true hey? Apparently for every 100 visitors to your blog, you’d get 100 views on a widget on a blog of the genre you choose for your blog. Interesting stuff. Then the whole referal’s thing kicks in where you get whatever their visitor amount is ontop of your views.. A long chain of people would therefore be insane. We should set up a really long Irish Bloggers link!
Damien had a brilliant post about adverts on his blog today, read it here! I aggree with the majority of his points and it made me consider why I want ad’s on my blog! Honestly, I aim my ad’s for what I see as the “dim-witted” users of the internet, as I figure they are the “users” who would click ad’s the most. Stop looking at me like that, I’m right! I’m not going to click an ad on a website/blog going “oooh nice link”.
But anyway, its seems I don’t have enough “dim-witted” users on the blog. As I have only made $0.56 or maybe its the fact that you have to shove the ad in the “dim-witted” users face for it to work and I don’t really feel like changing my design! So until web advertising actually become relevant, or my hosting goes up and it looks like I’ll actually need to try support it via adverts, ADVERTS REVOKED. See, wasn’t that easy?
AcetoneISO is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images.Its features are:
Mount / Unmount ISO, MDF, NRG, BIN, NRG (no password required)
Display showing mounted images
Automatic Mount, destination is not required
Convert / Extract / Browse to ISO :
*.bin *.mdf *.nrg *.img *.daa *.cdi *.xbx *.b5i *.bwi *.pdi
Play a DVD Movie Image inside Kaffeine / VLC with cover downloader
Generate an ISO from a Folder or CD/DVD
Generate / Check MD5 file of an image
Encrypt / Decrypt an image
Split / Merge image in X megabyte
Compress with High Ratio an image in 7z format
Rip a PSX cd to *.bin to make it work with epsxe/psx emulators
Service-Menu support for Konqueror
Restore a lost CUE file of *.bin *.img
Blank CD/DVD
Burn ISO / Cue to CD/DVD
Mount Mac OS *.dmg images
Retrieve INFORMATION of an image
El-Torito support to create ISO bootable Cd
Mount *.iso in a specified folder from the user
Create a database of images
Extract the Boot Image of a CD/DVD or ISO
Crazy list of features there hey? You’d nearly say it could do anything! Anything Disc Image related anyway! Amazingly the application is pretty easy to install.
Firstly you have to install Kommander because it requires that. On ubuntu just open a terminal and put this in:
sudo apt-get install kommander p7zip
After that you can install the application by just putting in:
apt-get install AcetoneISO-6.7.deb
Voila! Its all installed! Find it in your menu! I’ve been using this for a few days now and no issues, but if anyone runs into any give me a shout and I’ll attempt to help you out!
Overview:
I was just thinking there on the idea of replacing school books with laptops, has any school actually gone and done this yet? At the moment in Secondary School prices for books are above €200 per year. If you could get a laptop for €400, wouldn’t that be worth it? You wouldn’t have to buy books then! Ok true, a laptop doesn’t work as a book just on its own, but I’m sure the Department of Education could come up with .PDF style books. I suppose there is reasons for and against this plan.
For:
Cheaper Overall.
Students become more computer literate.
Less weight for students to be carrying around.
More Enviormentally Friendly
.
Against:
Computers “could” theoritically just be a distraction to learning.
Its harder to study of a computer than a book, example: glare.
Students starting of using computers would find them hard and it would in overall slow down learning.
Conclusion
Of course they are just my opinions, I’m sure there is far more reasons than this. I’d be very interested to hear of any case studies done on the subject or just others opinions, are you for or aginst them!
AN Irish trawler scooped up an unusual catch of cannabis worth up to €1.4 million ($2.3 million) in the Atlantic, customs officials said.
The discovery of eight bales made up of 200 kilograms of drugs was made yesterday about 80km west of Slyne Head, County Galway, western Ireland. An investigation is under way involving the Irish navy, police and customs.
Not often do we hear these stories but there you have it! Source
The span new Wordpress 2.3 is out on Monday if anyone missed it. The question is, will you be upgrading straight away? I think I will be! Intergrated tagging just did it for me! Interested to hear what you guys think though!
Thats the one! The stats got abit more respectable and its now possibly worthwile to shove a few ad’s up! Of course I don’t want to annoy you guys, the RSS feed is ad free and there will be very little noticable adverts unless you go back through old posts or come into the website from a search. This is because my main target audience for these adverts are people ariving from searches. Cool hey? People let me know what you think. Did you even notice the adverts?
Digg it! 
Overall it’s been implemented very nicely and its something I’d love to see another few hosts add! 
