The Mystic Bird

Upgraded my desktop yesterday morning from Ubuntu’s 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) to the latest version out now - 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and right out of the gate I noticed that Firefox wasn’t my usual Firefox anymore. It was now Firefox3 Beta. WTH?!

Hardly a plugin that I use would be compatible with FF3B now. Even Google’s famous browser sync failed to install. Not good.

After some testing I decided to give FF3B the boot and install FF2 right from the Firefox website itself and all my usual plugins installed normally again without issue. (more…)

For those of you that didn’t know, version 8.04 is now out and the poor servers are getting hammered with everyone that’s downloading it now. Download times are sporadic as hell and seeing as my ISP seems to have spilled molasses down the fiber-optic…I’ll probably need to just order a CD.

Either way, I’m interested in seeing what the new version has to offer. Can’t say that about Vi$ta. It pooped right out of the box and still is.

Thankfully we have a good alternative…..Linux!

Que the trumpets! Hear the roar of the crowds! Yeah! We’re back! (Yawn)

Well, it’s an accomplishment to get all this moved from one server to another (files/folders, database, etc.) and intact to boot. Seems everything is all back to normal once again.

What server? Oh, left that part out didn’t I. I’ve moved to a VPS server that will now be home to all the dynamically driven sites I’ll be working on now. No more needing to worry if a plugin is going to cause an issue with the shared environment or anything. No sirree! By gosh, if I’m gonna cause a problem, I’ll crash myself!

Things might look a bit screwier than usual for a while here. I’m going to be moving the site over to another server that will handle things much better. So, if the site should disappear or become momentarily unstable…that’s why.

Hope to have things back to “normal” soon.