siliconpizza.com

Just Migrated to NEW server with mySQL 4.1 etc

and the applied wordpress 2.1.2

and it works

Whoooo Hooooo

A few peeps know where I work, but not what I do, I am responsible for the upkeep and improvement of the all most the entire intranet infrastructure for a LARGE PLC
An intranet system taking rought 8 million hits per day
Well one of the LAMP servers I manage had an outbreak of wordpress this afternoon that looked like this
Un Offcial Blog for Web Techies
but it is on an offcial server !!!I wonder how that happened

Had a call from my dad this morning, “my computer is tits up, switched it on this morning and it went BANG !”

He is an electrical heating engineer, so is no stranger to pulling electrical stuff apart, and replacing a few bit and bobs

Told him where to buy a NEW PSU (not PCWorld, glouester has a little shop with Good prices for such things)
90 minutes later, he calls back to say ??18 quid later his computer is now working again !!!

Horray !!!!!!!!!!!

A campsite with WiFi internet

http://www.pencelli-castle.co.uk/

Let me start at the begining,
As i own my own domain, like many IT literate people these days, I make up email address’s as I go along, depending on what I need it for, homeshopping@, mobile@, cars@ etc, I am sure you get the picture, I then run a catch all system (with some fairly heavy spam blocking, not filtering, outright blocking)

So a few days ago I get an email from a place called licenceguard to an address I used to get car insurance qoutes, insure@ as it happens

Offering me insurance against losing my driving licence, that would pay out up to ??15,000 per year for taxis etc, if I lose my driving licence, all for a ??125 premium !!!!!!!!!!

So if i get this right, some car insurance outfit sold my email address on to licenceguard, who then offer to cover my travelling expenses if I lose my licence, by say, repeatedly driving with no car insurence, becasue licenseguard was cheaper, get my drift !!!

Not someting I would do personly , but I am sure there are many that might, or even wor,se drink drive, knowing they would still be able to get to work, if they got caught and lost their licence !!!!

After Many months of using windows (IIS) based blogware and never really being happy with the look and feel I thought it was time to look at alternatives.? A few of my friends and collegues rave about open source and LAMP? and having just built my first LAMP Wiki, HTTP://how-to-build-an-intranet.com, I thought? i would look at LAMP blogware

The Piglet blog uses wordpress, so i figured that would be a good place to start.
So i downloaded it, read the install docs, and here we are. This blog is now running on a Debian based LAMP platform

What more can i say !!!!!!!!!!!