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Managed to get Wordpress upgraded to 2.5 on my server. Is much cleaner and functional than earlier version.

However, this was not assisted by Ubuntu 8.04. It seems in this release they've broken the Samba client software that used to work fine in earlier releases. Investigation shows it's actually a problem with Gnome shifting to gvfs. Dick-heads. Ubuntu is supposed to keep working and get better, not break previously working parts of itself!

In the end managed to mount the share I needed to access the server manually, but then every time it created a directory, it created it with the wrong permissions, so I had to use a shell on the server to chmod stuff. Made copying directory structures across difficult.

Once I finally had it installed, I was pleased with the WordPress upgrade, a definite cleanliness and usability improvement. But I couldn't get picture upload and gallery creation to work, even though the instructions said it should work simply, it just failed. Spent hours checking i was doing it right, and that the installation had been completed, worried because of previous directory permission issues I might have failed to copy something important. Finally traced the Firefox error log, it has a problem with XUL file permissions somewhere. Reboot into Windows, the interface works fine. Another Ubuntu problem (as same browser, only OS is different). Possibly fixable somewhere, but shouldn't be necessary to fix something just to select files for upload from a browser from a directory my current user has access permissions for.

Am annoyed now, because for a while it looked like I could dump Windows for everything except the occasional game play, because they'd fixed all the old show-stoppers, but now, until gvfs is fixed it's not feasible. The fact that there's still no fix for a major flaw like this, which should have been enough, IMO, to prevent the release of 8.04 until it was fixed, points out the main problems with OS OS's. No real quality control, and no ability to pressure them into applying any.

Throat Cut

May. 13th, 2008 12:23 am
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This morning I woke around 5.00am from a dream in which the usage of meat cleavers and similar large bladed instruments to slice open throats featured strongly. There was a serial killer involved. I think I got him, but he also got me. I was trying to explain to the people who came what was going on. Only with my throat cut to the bone I was finding it difficult to talk. I was trying to make people aware that I needed medical treatment, but they weren't listening.

I don't know if that had anything to do with it, but today I finally decided I had enough with the carpet in my bedroom and ripped it all out. It already makes a hell of a lot of difference. Feels a lot cleaner even though I haven;t fully cleaned the floor yet. But it gets me closer to starting to clean up and paint things, and make use of that advice people gave me earlier. Though it;s taken me long enough to do the first part, which is get rid of the carpet.

The sort-of-cold I found out I had when I relaxed over the weekend at [livejournal.com profile] seraphs_folly cottage really buggered me when ripping out the carpet, I think I must have worried [livejournal.com profile] ferrouswheel with my huffing and puffing, as he brought me a glass of juice, which was nice. But I think maybe, with any luck, that exercise burnt out some of the crap.

The weekend was wonderful despite that sort-of-cold, which meant I spent far more time sleeping, or close to sleep, than I would have preferred. But on the other hand, it meant my lady got a lot of rest too, which was good. And cuddling is actually a lot of fun, especially in a made-for-the-purpose floor bed watching Yoshitoshi Abe-designed anime.

[livejournal.com profile] seraphs_folly has covered the shared events of the weekend pretty good already, I'll just add that I helped a classic blonde out on the way down. She was about to head off from the long-term car-park to walk with her bags to the terminal, when I told that the shuttle would be here very shortly.

Today i received a large parcel with almost USD $200 worth of professionally made wargames terrain, which I picked up for $51, and a selection of OOP BDSM-related erotic graphic novels. One of which, entitled Emily's Secret, reminded me that I haven't posted a real entry since shairng a nice meal with [livejournal.com profile] tyellas last Thursday evening. I also recieved several Traveller alien's and a USB-powered massager.

This post is coming at you from Logjam, a GTK LJ client. I miss the preview option though. and I haven;lt booted up Windows on my machine for some days now. Still have to get PHP and My-SQL installed properly, and I still have to install the drivers for my network printer, but I do now have a lot of the fancy Compiz-Fusion GL graphics functioning for the desktop. It's fun having the windows swap as a rotating cube. Or setting fire to things randomly.

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