One of my favourite blog is Motho ke motho ka botho. It’s all about Linux and getting the most out of old and low powered machines. As you probably expect, it heavily promotes console based applications – which is great for me and my continual search for lightweight efficiency (read as happily playing about with new things and possibly not getting too much done).
In the list of software is a little application called Charm. This is a console based publishing tool for (amongst others) Wordpress. Well, I had to give it a go – which is exactly what I am doing right now. It is pretty simple to set up, and fortunately allowed me to switch my editor from Vim to Emacs (and start flamewares…now).
I still have to have a good poke around, I don’t know if it can schedule posts, or save as drafts etc etc, but so far it looks pretty good. I also want to test out Emacs’s Weblogger Mode, the quest for my console based utopia continues.
This is great for a couple of reasons. Firstly, Live Unsigned has a decent server in which to grow. Secondly, and most importantly, it meant I had a blank canvas to work with to get the server exactly as I wanted it. Things like this are fun! The setup I went with in the end was Debian 6, Nginx, MySQL, PHP5.3 (with PHP-FPM), Memcache and finally postfix for the mail serving. Following is a little description of each step required.
Following from my dependencyhellproblems the other day my new version of MySQL seems to have all its stored procedures corrupted, displaying the following message when any of them are executed:
Cannot load from mysql.proc. The table is probably corrupted
After a bit of research, I found the simple fix is to run
mysql_upgrade
Problem solved.
Posting it to my blog as a reminder to me to RTFM, and just in case it is useful to some other poor soul out there.
Just had a nightmare hour trying to get my lovely clean Xubuntu desktop back to normal.
For some strange reason it was loading in the Gnome desktop over the top. All very odd, loaded up as XFCE for a second or two, but then flashed into Gnome – very irritating.
Finally managed to track down the problem which was Nautilus was automatically loading, which was then replacing the desktop. After about an hour of Googling and 15 minutes of going through all the session config variables to try and work out where it was loading, I finally came across this thread in the brilliant Ubuntu Forums which mali2297 recommended removing the .cache directory. I did, and it worked!
For example’s sake, I did this:
$ rm/home/rob/.cache -Rf
I just thought I’d share this in case someone else is having a similar problem.
