Archive for November, 2007



Christmas Advice

Christmas TreeIf there’s one thing I’ve learned about Christmas trees it’s to not buy one pre-lit. We’ve spent more time trying to get our pre-lit tree to actually light than we would have ever spent on just stringing the lights ourselves. Buy a good tree in two or three sections; that makes it easy to assemble. Then just …read more »

Upgrade Successful

The server is now upgraded from Fedora 5 to Fedora 8. I normally don’t trust upgrades (thanks to Microsoft) but I decided to chance the Fedora upgrade. It’s been about a week and so far all is well. :)

Free Forums

While in Chicago I ran across a really cool service on the Internet. phpBB3now.com offers free, ad-free forums for the making. They use phpBB’s top-notch software for their forums and they also offer the phpbb3 portal, all integrated and ready to go. Setup is really simple; they walk you through all the steps and essentially do all the work for you. You provide the topic for your forum and in a matter of minutes it’s done.

I originally setup my DSSForum on the phpbb3now servers but …read more »