Geek Update

Posted on Jun 19, 2004

Well, now that things are settling down a bit I find I have a bit of spare time on my hands. I have plenty of things on my to-do list but I’ve got some stuff done. First off I have kicked off the transition of Comerford.cc to PHP Nuke. I won’t be using Dreamweaver to administer the site anymore, because I no longer have a license for it with the change of job, hence the transition to a more web based management of the site. You can view the initial template here: Nuke Site.

In fact now that I have switched jobs a lot of my licenses are hosed – Photoshop is gone too, not to mention Windows XP Pro (I do have an XP Home license, but why bother…..). There was a time when I would have just kept on using them illegally but that’s over. Usually I can find an alternative that’s free and usually Open Source, so that’s what I intend to do – just for kicks, here’sthe list and the alternative:

Windows XP –> Linux (currently Fedora Core 2 but that may change)
Dreamweaver –> PHPNuke & BlueFish/Quanta
Photoshop –> The GIMP
Firefox –> Same, just on Linux
Thunderbird –> Same, just on Linux

Fedora Core 2 is currently running happily on my little Sony R505DL laptop, and all of the bits and pieces, besides the scroll wheel (which I never used anyway) is working. I’vealso managed to get an RSS feed to work on PHP Nuke by converting the Atom feed. I put a little guide up on how I did it here: Atom to RSS.

So, left on the to-do list:

Install Linux on the Xbox
Build out my two other dual CPU boxes and get them up and running Linux
Design a new theme (or use an existing one) for the Nuke Site

And there’s probably more I’ll dream up along the way. That’s it for now……

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