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Posted Sun, 12/13/2009 - 12:30pm by rernst

After much work, I've finally been successful in upgrading this blog to Drupal 6. This is the third attempt, and the first one that wouldn't have had me editing the database to fix the bork-ups that 'upgrading' modules between versions created. All of this caused me to remember why I was hesitant to upgrade before now.

Kubuntu 8.04 ('Hardy Heron')

Posted Tue, 07/29/2008 - 5:45pm by rernst

Followers of my blog may have wondered -- around the end of April -- why I never made any comments about 8.04 / 'Hardy Heron'. There are two reasons for that. The first was: It was really really bad. I'm not enough of a zealot to gloss over that and ignore it: I'll speak my mind even on things I've traditionally endorsed, and it was a load of crap. Why? KDE4. That brings me to the second reason I did not post about it: upgrading my main workstation was such a disaster, I didn't have the time to blog about it.

Drupal Security Updates - 5.8 / 6.3 and OpenID module 5.x-1.2

Posted Thu, 07/10/2008 - 8:19am by rernst

This morning I received notice of two security update releases in my inbox: one about Drupal core being upgraded, another about the OpenID module containing a security vulnerability before 1.2.

Since upgrading Drupal core is such a pain, I've generated a patch (it's attached to this post: click on '1 attachment' to retrieve it) for upgrading your existing sites from 5.7. If you're not running a 5.7 site, please don't try to use it.

Mozilla Thunderbird Beta 2

Posted Thu, 01/25/2007 - 8:11am by rernst

Mozilla Thunderbird beta 2 was released not so long ago, so I decided I'd give it a shot.

I'm impressed. The GUI is much smoother, and much more slick.

Also, it can tag messages and use those, rather than depending on just folders for organization.

The message search is slightly more powerful, but still needs work. It's also not in an intuative location, which is the major drawback.

I didn't have any crashes, but I didn't run it for very long. If you want to test it, the download links are here: