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Interesting application this WordPress

After a couple of days I can see that blog’s are an interesting concept, and light weight software on the server and client. Using WordPress I can

  • Write and publish content,
  • I can play with the theme of the blog,
  • Administer the blog,
  • install new themes, plugins, etc.

All done with very little effort; this software is very easy to use. WordPress was disturbingly quick to install and very little Geek Points needed to set this up. Total time spent setting this up was all of 45 minutes, and mostly because I did not read the easy to read and search online help. But I also see that there are some (minor) drawbacks.

I have not yet seen (okay in a few days) a good interface for formating and dropping in graphics. The default tool is very good and easy to use but requires the author to insert HTML codes. What I’d like to see is some sort of editing tools along the lines of gmail’s interface. Gmail’s compose mail tool let’s you format the text, insert bullets, change font and size, etc. I’m very happy with WordPress and will keep looking for someway to do this. GMail might actually work; I can setup a mail account and post via that e-mail. I’ll set that up and see if it preserves the html formatting.

F.E.A.R. Game

Two weeks ago I purchased a really cool game called F.E.A.R.

This is a scary well written horror/action flick. It’s meant to be played in the dark with the volume turned up. And the kids asleep, the game is very graphic.

The game is so good, I upgraded my 128MB Geforce 5700 to a BFG 6800GT OC 256MB DDR card. It was well worth it, even if I still cannot run the game at the maximum settings.

Welcome to my server.

Paraphrasing from the original web page:

Welcome to the Dembowski.net Consulting home Page.

The majority of our work has been related to firewalls, IP routing w/UNIX based servers, and mail systems of different types (SMTP connectivity).

Around 1994 the forces of the universe conspired to change my method of employment from a regular salaried employee to a paid by the hour consultant. This has various pros and cons.

My main interest for a long time has been IP networking. This naturally led to my getting very involved firewalls such as the TIS Firewall Tool kit, Checkpoint Firewall-1, and Gauntlet.

It also meant that I got involved in UNIX and variant operating systems such as Linux. When I got involved in Intel based UNIX all that was available at that time was SCO. That system had a Digiboard and 15 WYSE-50 terminals. The support from SCO was “we don’t support that hardware. Buy a real computer and than call us back.” So when my brother Ed introduced me to Slackware Linux I was dubious. The operating system at that time was 0.99pl11! But it worked with our hardware and was more UNIX than SCO (IMHO).

I’ve been using Linux for several years now. I’ve moved from Slackware to RedHat because the package management was superior, now I just stay because I’ve gotten used to the setup. From Redhat to Fedora.

This box is running Fedora Core 1 and handles our e-mail and web page. It’s running on a dual processor P3 933MHz with 256MB of RAM.

The text never really got updated and is well silly. I think all home/hobbyist web sites really want a running log.

1997. I think.

The original web page for www.dembowski.net has not changed since 1997. At the time the tools that existed on the Internet were Netscape and some not very good Microsoft Office tools. On the server side the pages were static.

Now in 2005 there are tons of tools. This blog is currently using WordPress 1.5.2. I selected WordPress because it is free, works with a MySQL database, and PHP.

My server has those tools so here we are.