Drupal at DreamHost is something fun, or so I've experienced tonight. I had prepared a full site configuration including modules, tweaked configuration and even content. I did this all on my local machine. Usually, when I do these things, it's a matter of copying over the files and the database, change the database credentials in the settings file, and it's working.
Not this time. After doing the above, I got all kinds of weird URL's that were starting with system-cgi/ in the path. Not useful. After reading about many successful Drupal installations on Dreamhost, though, I thought I'd try a fresh install: TADA! That solved the whole problem! It's a hassle, because I had to go through all the configurations again, compare them with my local version, etc etc etc, but at least it works. I'm happy 
So, now Online Music World is running Drupal, adding some features to the previously available discussion forum!
posted on August 30, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: technology
Jarvis Cocker, probably best known for his role as lead-singer of the British band Pulp, can also survive on his own. He's proved that to me by a new single he released, Running The World.
I got the track from Bleep for a wonderfully nice price of 1.40 euro and it was worth every penny. A wonderful track about the state of this world, and the fact that those running the world are, as the British can so wonderfully call it, cunts.
I can highly recommend getting this wonderful track.
posted on August 23, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: music
Small disclaimer in advance: These are just my personal viewpoints, based on information I have read, heard, seen everywhere. Your opinion may vary.
Chaos in the UK, and all over Europe on airports with a lot of flights towards and from the UK cancelled or heavily delayed by new security measures, after some secret services have “uncovered a conspiracy to blow up multiple airplanes from the UK to the USA”. Twenty-something people have been arrested already, and 5 people are still on the run.
It's been too quiet for a while in the western world, so it became time for a new threat. After seeing documentaries like Loose Change, and even this week hearing about a group of dutch students getting massive funding (one million dollar!) for a research that should answer the question “Was the CIA behind the 9/11 attacks?” my opinion is still going into the direction that this new threat is also being staged by the secret services of America in maybe the UK as well.
So do I think that the US government and/or secret services are behind New York, Washington, Madrid, London and now again the UK? Yes, that is exactly what I think. There's too much loose ends in their “proof”, too many of their statements that contain holes or seem to be complete lies.
I can only guess as to the reasons of this. It could be that the weapons industry has a strong lobby, they've probably seen a massive decline in their profits since the cold war ended. It could also be set up by the US government itself, because people who depend on you for protection are easier to control. It could even be the US government in an attempt to become the great overpowering world power. With all this “terrorism” all over the world, they can charge into any country they want, or support other countries doing such things, without having to explain themselves any more than “it's part of our war against terror”.
I really don't like what is going on. If we don't watch out, we're looking at a world ruled my one mr. George Dubya Bush soon, telling us what to do, what to think, and especially what to believe. We should all be Christians, and believe in everything that Bush says we should believe in. Or will, when finally the US has conquered the world, the puppet master behind Bush finally step forward and declare him/herself emperor?
Whatever will happen, it looks like the world is not that fun anymore. Whether the terrorism is real or staged, the solution lies not in the extermination or terrorists, but in the improved behaviour of “the west”. That is something I firmly believe in. Instead of fighting everyone that thinks differently, we should take them serious. Because once we take them serious, they will take us serious. And even the more radical might at least accept that there are people thinking differently.
I just hope that this time, they will only stage arresting potential terrorists, instead of killing innocent people again...
posted on August 11, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: politics
Everybody knows Digg. And that is why I don't really check the site out anymore. Even though Digg still seems to be able to keep some kind of quality to it's content, a lot of useless junk is submitted. When the mass discovered Digg, it went downhill and wasn't as much fun anymore.
So I was glad to find the dutch incarnation of Digg a while ago: eKudos. A small but active group of people was submitting stuff to the site, writing nice comments with each link. But lately, it's gone downhill. Not really because "the mass" has discovered it, but because some developers have discovered a way to (automatically?) post to eKudos from Wordpress and the dutch low-quality weblogging tool punt.nl. And so lately a lot of crap is being submitted to the site, making it less fun to check out the latest submissions. This may become their downfall.
I hope that the developers behind eKudos will find a way to prevent this, and to maintain the high quality of the content that it previously had. I'd hate to see eKudos go downhill.
posted on August 8, 2006 - 1 comment(s) - tags: technology
Through Vinu I found out about a great tool for javascript, HTML and CSS work. Aptana is an Eclipse-based editor for javascript, HTML and CSS making use of Eclipse's great set of features, specifically tweaked for usage with earlier mentioned languages. Very nice also is the fact that they also have a download of an Eclipse-plugin, so that when you already work with Eclipse, there is no need for you to install the full Aptana package which also contains Eclipse basically.
Very nice. I don't really use Eclipse a lot, being a Zend Studio user for PHP work, but a good HTML/CSS editor is very nice, and maybe this will also trigger me into javascript a bit more 
posted on August 5, 2006 - 3 comment(s) - tags: technology
Nothing negative about my previous host, as they do a good job without a question, but my opinion on my new hosting provider definitely is better already. Instead of playing a closed card about any downtime, which is common among a lot of hosting providers (again, not my previous hosting provider), DreamHost decided to give a full explanation of the recent server problems and downtime. Very good! I mean, they're cheap, but usually they don't have these serious problems. And now they encounter serious problems, which are partially to be blamed on themselves, and they openly admit it! Very good!
I think I said it before, but if you're not hosted there, maybe you should consider switching. And if you let me know, I can even arrange some discount for you!
posted on August 3, 2006 - 2 comment(s) - tags: technology
The Ufdi Network has recently been expanding with various new members, a very good sign. Still, after the recent expansion, we were still having pure linux and mac in our ranks. Now, even though this is not a bad thing of course, it was time for some counterweight.
Gideon Marken is, how he calls it, a Web Technologist. I like this term a lot. What I like even more is that he single-handedly set up an amazing site called ArtistServer, he makes very good music as Sonic Wallpaper, and is an allround good guy. He has accepted my invitation into the network and so you can tap into his vast base of knowledge as well as that of the other network members by checking the Ufdi Network on a regular basis.
Welcome to the network Gideon!
posted on August 2, 2006 - 1 comment(s) - tags: technology
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