Instead of leaving Zero’s webserver shut down, I’ve decided instead to have her index page redirect to this journal page, just like the index page here on greyduck.net itself. Slick, huh?

There’s a method to my madness, of course. Now I can use Zero’s webserver to do various “extra” things that Invite’s servers aren’t really set up to do, like provide the randomized email address trick. (It should be working now. Feel free to test it! The link is right below the Calendar.)

The relationship between greyduck.net and zero.kgon.com is now firmly incestuous. Fun, no?

Here’s something all Linux newbies and journeymen should tape to every monitor in their office:

When switching Linux systems from one root partition to another, always check the bootloader config carefully when making any changes to the bootloader of any kind.

For instance, today I tried to completely hose my LFS rig. How? By removing all references to my stub Mandrake install from lilo.conf and running ‘lilo -v’ to update. Great, but there’s a problem. My old lilo.conf also had this problem, but I fixed it. Which is to say, I had the wrong partition marked as ‘root = ‘ in the lilo.conf. This error was in both copies of said file… and while I fixed it on one, I didn’t fix it in the other.

So there I am, staring at the kernel panic message from the fact that it was trying to use my old /usr partition as the / partition. Idiot. It’s a damned good thing you can pass the ‘root = ‘ parameter at boot time!

Have I mentioned that I love Linux? No? Well, I do. It’s even good enough to let clumsy oafs such as myself get back out of the trouble they put themselves into.

I got the index-redirect to work, though I will continue to hope that Invite lets me set an index.php instead.

The dropcap CSS trick works, but I need to tinker with the spacing and alignment parameters. It looks a bit off in Mozilla/NS6+, and it looks way off in IE6. The beauty of using CSS, though, is that once I fix it, all of the journal entries that use it will look good automagically. Go stylesheets!

Yes, I’m going to do a better “logo banner” include section. I had to do something, right? Give me a few days in which to play with Photoshop/Fireworks/Gimp and I’ll do this place up nicely.

I haven’t decided on which other Channels I’m going to create. I’m probably going to add in Work, and I think I’m also going to add a couple of Media channels so I can do reviews. (I’m going to salvage my book review from the old journal database, dammit!)

Oh, and I’ll figure out someplace to put my name. If you’re reading this, it’s probably because I told you to… but eventually I’m going to have visitors who don’t know who the hell I am. (And once they’ve left, they still won’t! Muahaha! Er. Ahem.) I’m trying to think of a non-cheesy way of doing so, which probably means I’m going to spend some time websurfing so I can rip off somebody else’s cool technique. Viva la Web, baby.

All this and more, just as soon as I get through today’s festivities: Gaming with Ben, Legend Of The Rangers in the evening. It’s a good day.

What do you know, it works!

Yes, that’s right, I’m back in the saddle again. I know I originally hoped to recover the material from the old journal on Zero, but I’ve had a change of heart: A lot of that stuff wasn’t the kind of thing I want to stare at again any time soon. Pain, much pain.

Next steps: Fix index.html to go directly to the journal page, do color changes to the journal config file, add some graphics, add in the rest of the channels. And probably some other stuff too, but those are the biggies.

IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK!