Neaveru

I managed to get the server installed properly with a few difficulties. When installing Ubuntu Server Edition, I didn’t know the current DNS server off-hand, so I just ignored it when it asked for one. Turns out, during the installation, it attempts to go online and update the system, which it can’t do cause the server names don’t resolve, so it just hangs. I found out I had to go to a different terminal (ALT+F2) and find the apt-get update process (ps aux | grep apt-get) and kill it (kill #). After that, everything else went smoothly. I think assuming that the server is online and has resolve capabilities seems to be a bad idea. Maybe I just missed something though. I added everything I needed to be able to remotely manage the server and now it seems like everything is running relatively smoothly.

I decided to go with wordpress for the blog just because of the user base and I’ve heard relatively good things about it. I’ve been playing with the themes and plugins and will continue, so this look may change drastically in the next couple of days. If any can recommend some good plugins to have, especially statistics plugins, that would be appreciated (for wordpress, not the web server).

So now, hopefully I can get back to my regularly unscheduled updates. I’ve been playing around a lot with OpenGL so I’ll probably have some comments on that soon.