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Alḥamdulillāh, I’ve decided that, after upgrading WordPress, I should do a little housekeeping. As usual, I find a list best presents the ideas I wish to express:
I upgraded to WordPress 2.8.2 (mentioned here).
I fixed some posts that had some typos (I usually am good about this, but these had slipped by).
I deleted some [...]
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Alḥamdulillāh, I’ve just successfully upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.8.2, along with several other blogs that I maintain. I’m really looking forward to the merger of WordPress & WordPress-MU, which, ideally, will make managing multiple WordPress sites on the same server easier to deal with, in shāʾ Allāh.
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Alhamdulillaah, I’ve discovered a new WordPress blogging client packaged with Fedora – namely, Lekhonee. There aren’t a lot of formatting options, but it appears you can post using HTML, so that’s a plus, I think. Let’s see how it goes.
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Alhamdulillaah, WordPress 2.8 has been released! Grab it from the downloads page or upgrade, like I do, via SVN.
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Alhamdulillaah, the Fedora Project has released Fedora 11! You can get the torrents and/or check out the new features!
(Sorry for the rather uninspired & lazy post…I usually like to share more details, but I’ve got work to do…;) )
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Alhamdulillaah, I’ve successfully loaded the Fedora 11 Beta Live CD onto an SD card. This allows me to boot directly from the card using my USB card reader, much as if it were a USB key/flash drive. In short, after a few attempts, everything just works.
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Alhamdulillaah, I am quite pleased with the following HDR image I was able to assemble. While not as good as the best that are out there, it is definitely a step-up from my other attempt I shared here.
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Alhamdulillaah, to my pleasant surprise, I discovered that I started using Fedora personally with Fedora Core 4, and not 5 like I had previously thought. This makes me feel better as I’m glad I started using Fedora earlier, because I like to think I recognized the importance of a completely (or as close [...]
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I have the bad habit of starting things and not completing them. This is bad for numerous reasons, just a few of which I’ll list shortly. I will warn you now that as this post is meant to help me organize my thoughts, it will list-heavy, as I do find lists and other [...]
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Alhamdulillaah, I’ve just managed to produce my first HDR (high dynamic range) image the results of which I’m pleased with. Once again, I have CHDK to thank for enabling this feature easily.
[basilgohar@beta ~]$ echo $PATH
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin\
:/home/basilgohar/bin
Note: This is for future reference as I try to make some progress on an old project. I do not think the last value is a default for Fedora, but rather, something added later. If someone knows otherwise, please correct me!
Update: I’m starting to dislike fixed-width templates…corrected the last $PATH value so [...]
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Note: This is a post I started writing back in November, but only got around to updating now.
Alhamdulillaah, I cannot believe I’ve lived for so long without knowing about screen (Wikipedia article). To put it as simple as possible, think of screen as a “tabbed” interface for terminals/shells. This is a weak analogy, [...]
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to setup an LDAP back end for various Hidayah Online Network resources, especially the Columbus Dawah project. This has become particularly pressing as the Columbus Dawah website has three primary public services – the blog, the forums, the school. Additionally, in the future I want [...]
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I have my new server (aalimraan.hidayahonline.net – the one hosting Audio Islam) setup to log web accesses each day to its own file which is then bzip2-compressed. This is convenient for a variety of reasons.
Firstly, I can easily access statistics for each day by processing the appropriate file.
B, I can see the relative [...]
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Alhamdulillaah, while waiting for an answer an #fedora for the question of where the custom spellcheck files for hunspell, the unified spellchecking engine for Fedora 9 and upwards, reside, I discovered that they are stored in .config/enchant, which isn’t very intuitive, but makes sense after discovering that enchant is related to the Fedora [...]
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Alhamdulillaah, I’ve (finally!) installed Fedora 10 on my laptop, but it’s not been without its bumps. I cannot blame this on Fedora 10 nor the anything else related to the release. But, in the end, I don’t have a DVD to install from, only the LiveCD (which I booted from my SD card [...]
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Alhamdulillaah, WordPress 2.7 has been released! Hit the link for all the releasy goodness.
I’ve upgraded my personal blog, and I’ll take care of the rest in due time, in shaaʾ Allaah. Upgrading with SVN is always recommended.
Happy blogging!
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Alhamdulillaah, Fedora 10 has been released! Torrents are available. I have all of my servers seeding now (including the newest one). Read up on the new features to find out what’s new.
Well, what are you waiting for? Just go download it already!
If you don’t want to use the torrent (although you should), then [...]
For seeding the Fedora 10 release, I am using rTorrent on albaqarah & aalimraan (my two fastest servers), but I had to fall back to using the standard bittorrent client on alfaatihah because rTorrent isn’t available for its platform (RHEL3) – at least, not through yum nor up2date. rTorrent is great, in general, but it [...]
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Alhamdulillaah, after loading up all blog-post pages (i.e., going to the bottom of each page and clicking for the next page), I’ve fixed all old posts that had HTML errors (according to the HTML Validator Firefox plugin).
This actually is a relief for me because amongst the major reasons I enjoy using WordPress is [...]
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