Linux migration complete

Well, I officially feel 1337. I have successfully set up my site on my Ubuntu server, freeing my gaming rig from having to serve up my site. Which now is running Apache 2. If I’m not mistaken, the site is much faster. Yay, Linux! ^^

All the virtual floppy passwords were lost in the transfer, so if you want me to set your password, email me. Except for Gregori and Amadeus. I remember Gregori’s for sure and I think I remember Amadeus’ so I set those.

EDIT: …Which  doesn’t matter because virtual floppy broke in the transfer process. Oh well.

Dystopia!

Dystopia v1 has released! This has been the first update in about 3 years! It improves upon the previous versions with more weapons and more features in Cyberspace, as well as more implants. Of course, this makes it all the more confusing at first, but all the more immersive once it is understood.

Clicky.

In other news, here’s a cute little animation. Clicky.

Linux

I have seen heaven. Further proving my fickle nature concerning Linux, it happens to be using Ubuntu Edgy in any way shape, or form. The enormous difference between my previous try at Linux, which was Debian, and that Ubuntu has a GUI. (Graphical User Interface) This means it is nice and user-friendly, and has a smooth, Mac-like appearance. There are huge amounts of tutorials around instructing how to do anything, and if you’re doing something else somehow, there’s IRC chat.

Now that I have my former server running Ubuntu and an older computer running Debian, I’ve begun to appreciate it. Debian is not designed to be user friendly. It will be as user friendly as a text interface can be, but that’s no substitute for a GUI. Debian simply does away with all the clutter GUIs create and allows programs to use much more of a machine’s potential. Debian machines are meant to run servers or make calculations.

My previous problem with Debian was probably twofold. I was using the stable version (not that it asked me during the install or anything, that I noticed at least) and the next version, Etch, was nearly going to be upgraded to stable, and thus all the programs were written for it. That and when I put Debian on my former server I was panicking and rushing to get the site back up. That wasn’t productive. Yay Linux! ^^

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Lawl

Heh.

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Awesome!!

According to this, video games can help your vision! I think I may want to go to the eye doctor now… :p

In other news my WoW addiction is getting progressively worse.

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I have seen hell. It is being ignorant of Debian Linux, and trying to set up a server on it. It’s… horrible. Debian Linux is a very powerful and stable free opensource operating system. By default, it has no GUI, meaning no mouse use. Keyboard only. The user must know text commands and their syntax in order to do anything at all. Upon pressing the power button, the user is greeted to the usual booting BIOS diagnostics, then a GRUB bootloader. This is for allowing multiple operating systems to be installed and runnable on the same machine. Although having a command line allows a user to do anything right from the start, it is by no means intuitive to me, someone who has lived life with Windows.
Apache, Linux’s poster child server, is no better than Debian itself. There is, to my knowledge, no GUI for configuration. It’s all hidden away in admittedly well-documented configuration files that in my case had to be manually edited by hand.

Although I got PHP working, I could not get PHP to recognize the MySql I had installed, which happened without any work on my part on my Windows install. That means no databases. Which means no forum or wordpress.

I realize that Linux is extremely powerful and used extensively, if not totally, by such big names as Google and TiVo, it is not intuitive despite the large community of tutorials. Maybe I’m just stupid or something. Anyways, that’s my excuse for the website being down for so long.

Break’s going well

I hope everyone’s break is going well. I’ve been rediscovering both Half Life 2 and some amazing mods for them, among them MINERVA: Metastasis 2, and the yet-to-be-released Black Mesa. Black Mesa is taking the concepts and basic layout of Half Life, streamlining them, and translating them into Half Life 2’s standards of play and game engine. Intriguing stuff, really. Happy break, all!

EDIT: Wheee…

Snow Day!

SNOW DAY!!!

You knew that though, didn’t you. I betcha you checked the official site first. If I do an animation about it it might be later in the day. I had insane amounts of homework so this is perfect! Well, that, and I wanna play GMOD10!

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