Author name: Dan Langille

I've been playing with computers since I read an Elementary Electronics magazine way back in the 1970s. I started contributing to open source projects in 1998. After that, I gradually moved from being a software developer to being a systems administrator.

Routing Problems

It seems there is a problem between my home and my server in Austin: $ traceroute supernews.unixathome.org traceroute to supernews.unixathome.org (206.127.23.226), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net (98.114.194.1) 6.680 ms 3.669 ms 4.230 ms 2 G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.109.140) 3.756 ms 4.053 ms 4.384 ms 3 ae0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.209.178) 3.718 ms 3.787 ms 4.293 ms 4 0.xe-7-1-0.BR1.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.63.3.85) 11.601 ms 11.975 ms 11.818 ms 5 xe-2-1-0.er2.iad10.us.above.net (64.125.13.173) 11.294 ms 11.610 ms 11.789 ms 6 […]

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WordPress Migration: Tidying up the comments

This is the seventh in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I did some cleaning up of the comments after I imported them. Clean? What’s to clean After importing the comments, I noticed, or rather, I was reminded, that Phorum does some things that WordPress doesn’t. Specifically tokens. Tokens? What tokens? When I copied over the comments from my old system, I took

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WordPress Migration: Updating the comment signatures

This is the sevent in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I updated some of the comments to deal with some tokens left over from the previous system. Tokens? What tokens? When I copied over the comments from my old system, I took the raw text. In hindsight now, as I type this, I think I could have injected the token values into

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WordPress Migration: redirecting old URLs

This is the sixth in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I enabled the old URLs. This is important only if you want the ‘old’ content to be found. This is especially important if your website is well established. People will have links to your website from their websites. Search engines have results which need to continue to be valid. Myself? I know

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Designing a new server, part II

After posting the original plan, I’ve made a few changes, highlighted below in bold Here is what I’m thinking of getting: SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SGL-O ATX Server Motherboard : $224.99 AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz 8 x 512KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache Socket G34 115W 8-Core Server : $259.99 Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR3 1600 Server Memory : 4 x $59.99 = $239.96 PC Power and Cooling Silencer MK III 600W

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Designing a new server

I think I may have to put together a new server. For home use. Here is what I’m thinking of getting: SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SGL-O ATX Server Motherboard : $224.99 AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz 8 x 512KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache Socket G34 115W 8-Core Server : $259.99 Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR3 1600 Server Memory : 4 x $59.99 = $239.96 PC Power and Cooling Silencer MK III 600W

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WordPress Migration: Importing the comments

This is the sixth in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I imported the comments from my website into the WordPress database. The comments in question are feedback on the articles on the website. I consider them to be an important part of the website. The comments on an article can be simple questions and answers, or careful elaborations upon an obscure point.

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WordPress Migration: Getting all the authors

This is the fifth in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I imported the authors from my website into the WordPress database. This step was important to me because I am not the only contributor to The FreeBSD Diary. The WordPress Structure First, let’s look at the WordPress structure to see what is available to us. WordPress uses MySQL as a database. Although

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WordPress Migration: The import

This is the fourth in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I exported my existing website into an XML file, which I then imported into WordPress. All this was possible because of the preparations previously described. I was fortunate in that my website already had an RSS feed. It did not contain everything needed to do an import, but it did represent a

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