Well, phase 1 on “The Grand Plan” is now successfully completed. That’s the plan to sort out my home machine.
In a nutshell, last year I bought some gadgety goodness for my home machine in the shape of an 80gb disk. The disk didn’t seem to be properly recognised as 80gb (only 40Gb). I had a last stab at getting it working yesterday (I was resigned to accepting just 40Gb, but that’s a lot more than the 4Gb I had before). So, I fiddled with the jumpers, and to my surprise (and not a small amount of good luck), it’s now recognised it as 80Gb.
So, I’ve installed Redhat 9.0 too, which brings my system up to date (It was SuSE 7.2), despite the home-rolled kernel. I rarely use the OS for anything more than ADSL routing (I chose not to fork out on an ADSL wireless router, preferring to do the firewalling etc. on my own). I was worried about subtle complications, but have to say that The GPL speedtouch USB driver worked a treat on Redhat 9.0 without any kernel fiddling.
So, the last part was getting the system patched and firewalled (I’d relied on service shutdown previously). That too has been sorted out, so my home machine is now brandishing iptables as it’s firewall, so should hopefully be a lot more secure than before.
Plans? Well, I’ve now moved my picture collection (Note you’ll need a password. Just e-mail me). Some twat decided to make a nuisance of himself with personal pictures, hence the more personal items are behind htaccess
I’d played a bit with Apache::Gallery, but it seems (on initial fiddling) to not work with Apache 2.0. But to be honest, I’m quite happy with iPhoto, which enables me to keep things nicely managed, including comments and so forth. But I still like Gallery, and will possibly have a fiddle at some point.
What else? Well, I’d like to host leyton.org off of it eventually, but that’s perhaps a bit enthusiastic in the short term. I need to play about a bit first, so may find a cheap registrar first. But watch this space… Things are a changin’
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