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WordPress 3.0.1

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tbbs-land now runs the latest, not-so-greatest WordPress. Version 3.0.1. The 3.X WordPress as been a disappointment to me. The automatic upgrade of plugins just fails to work,  a little spinner shows up, along with a message saying that this upgrade could take a while.   I can’t deny the truth of that statement; I only fear that I don’t have enough remaining days on earth for the upgrade to complete. In addition, the auto plugin updater puts the whole blog in maintenance mode, so visitors get a This site Down for Maintenence message.  I then have to kill the update, ssh out to my blog host, and delete the .maintenance   file in the blog root directory. What a PITA.

I hoped that the latest WP would provide a fix for this. It didn’t.  But whee. I have the latest.

-k-

Obligatory Post-Upgrade Test Post

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Well, we’re running WordPress 3.0 here in tbbs-land. The upgrade itself was routine. I deleted the recalcitrant SimpleTags plugin post-upgrade. It is allegedly WP 3.0 compatible; the automatic upgrade ran and ran and ran, with no discernible progress, nor any evidence that something was amiss. After 10 minutes, I stopped it, deleted the plugin, and we’re back in operation.

Now, I just need to write something on occasion.

-k-

Upgrade x2, 2 Days Late

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Last Tuesday, Constantine, the Fedora 12 Beta, was released. I make it a point to upgrade sooner rather than later. And, thanks to Fedora’s preupgrade, followed by 1.1G of downloads, and what seemed to be interminable disk-thrashing, the upgrade finished, and /etc/redhat-release now reveals:

Fedora release 11.92 (Rawhide)

Thus far, Constantine has performed well. A few sound playback problems, and a rather disgusting, persistent NetworkManager applet crash have been the only bad side effects. I can start NM applet from a terminal, just not on Gnome startup. I just downloaded a rather substantial upgrade; I’m hoping the NM problem is handled. And, I’ve never understood the sound stuff; I gotta read up on that. So, click that little badge in the sidebar, and get Constantine for yourself. Don’t cost nothin’.

After the F12 upgrade, I fired up Firefox to check this old blog, only to discover a WP upgrade awaited. After another flawless upgrade, tbbs-land now proudly runs WordPress 2.8.5.

Thanks, Fedora and WordPress!

-k-

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And the Geekery Begins..

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I’ll be able to devote my full attention to the Big Screen Kindle, still on target to arrive tomorrow. I just completed the tbbs-land upgrade to WordPress 2.8, with no major problems.

My “Related Posts” plugin wasn’t compatible, and has been dispatched to the bit bucket. Other than that, the old blog looks like home.

This is the first upgrade in a while that hasn’t reset my weather plugin to its defaults, which are Dusseldorf, Germany, Europe. This is a Good Thing.

Another salute to the WordPress mavens and mavenettes, who make it easy for me to publish these doses of drollery. They are in no way to blame; so don’t blame their platform for the content it delivers.

Thanks, WordPress!

-k-

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You are using WordPress 2.7.1

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I love it when my WordPress Dashboard says such sweet nothings; tbbs now proudly runs the latest, greatest.

I attempted to use the WP 2.7 Automatic Update feature to perform the upgrade; unfortunately, it fell short of the mark; it said it was downloading the WP update, then quit. I fired it up again, and it went through the “downloading .. ” again; this time it claimed to be “expanding the Core WordPress package.”, then quit again.

So I fell back to my time-honored command-line update, and all’s well in tbbs-land again. Maybe it’s time to read those “Automatic Upgrade” instructions.

-k-

Not Even a Power Outage Deters Me

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The power was out at tbbs WorldHQ when I got home from work tonight. We’ve been fortunate to have had few, and short outages in the 12+ years we’ve been in this house. Since we’re all-electric, I’d call it doubly fortunate. Tonight, MLB and I tried out the newly-opened Santini’s New York Style Deli around the corner while waiting for the ever vigilant Dominion Virginia linemen to restore service.

While we were sipping our beers, and waiting for her hot pastrami and my calzone1 to be delivered to our table, my cell phone rang, and the autobot voice of Dominion Virginia reassured me that our power had been restored. Turns out, according to the autobot voice, that the “foreign object in the wires”2 had been handled, and a several square block outage was over.

We ate leisurely, came home to a well-lit house. On firing up the laptop, I noticed that WordPress 2.7 is available. Hmm, I’m tired, really not in the mood, but WTF?.

Another painless, straightforward upgrade, and we’re flying WP 2.7.

With the lights on, too.

Thanks, WordPress!

-k-

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1 Both very good, by the way

2 I hope it was a squirrel; good riddance to another tree rat.

We Interrupt this Upgrade, to Bring you an Upgrade

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I got home tonight, all a-tingle about the prospect of upgrading at least one of my home boxes to Fedora 10, the official version of which shipped today.

My last “yum update” of the Fedora 10 beta was underway, when I noticed that version 2.6.5 of WordPress was available. A quick ssh out to the tbbs site, and we’re now flying the WordPress 2.6.5 flag high and proud.

OK, then. Now for some Fedora goodness. Night geekage begets more night geekage.

And, the WP upgrade was the usual effortless affair.

-k-

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Happy Blog B’day, #3

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And how the internet time flies, not unlike the time in the non-digital world. Three years ago, this old blog went live on the series of tubes1.

As is the ritual at times like these, the statistics from the WP Dashboard at this juncture are:

You have 1,513 posts, 8 pages, contained within 2 categories and 265 tags. You have 747 total comments, 737 approved, 10 spam and 0 awaiting moderation.

I’ve enjoyed the ride, and the domain and hosting being paid into aught-nine sometime, y’all keep coming back for your daily dose of drollery. OK? We never close.

-k-

H/T for the graphics: foamcow, via the Flickr. Love the penguins!

And, for the platform and plumbing: WordPress, Akismet, Scribe Fire, and HostMySite. We’ll be doing more bidness in year 4!

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1 Not to be confused with the series of cubes, wherein the originator of that phrase will be doing 5 to 10, if there’s any justice at all.