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04/18/07: Xen on Debian Etch

Well, it looks like I may have jumped the gun with that Xen on Debian Sarge post. I guess I didn't realize that "Etch" had already gone stable. But hey...this is good news!
Now, with Etch, we have all the xen goodies we need right in the Debian repositories, and apt-getable (or aptitudeable, if you prefer). This will certainly make for a much more easily maintainable system, and it proved to be much easier to set up as well.

Most of what I did came from one of the howto's that were previously referenced in Xen on Debian Sarge, namely, The Perfect Xen 3.0.3 Setup For Debian Sarge, with a little from Xen from Backports on Debian Sarge. Just for the record, my system has a single NIC, and is set up to use the network-bridge method. This is probably the easiest way to get xen up and running initially, until you determine whether or not you need either of the other methods.

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04/11/07: Xen on Debian Sarge

Over a year ago, I installed Xen on my Debian Sarge server. There were many howto's available, but I still had a helluva time getting it up and running. I just chalked it up to inexperience and didn't think too much about it after.

Fast forward to a couple weeks ago. I inherited a new machine to use as my server, so I wanted to take the opportunity to do everything right, with time not being a factor, as I still have my old server running.
This time I followed 3 different howto's to a tee, right from the initial Debian install. Of the 3 methods I tried, only 1 worked - building xen from source.

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04/10/07: NucleusCMS

From B2evolution, to Wordpress, to Drupal, and now to NucleusCMS, I seem to be slowly making my way through all available blog software.

This latest transition comes after a very long period of inactivity. I installed Drupal about a year ago and made a total of 2 posts since then. This actually worked to my benefit, as there doesn't seem to be a Drupal -> NucleusCMS conversion script available anywhere. Luckily, I still had my old Wordpress database, so I was able to convert from that and only lose 2 entries.

I still have some messing around to do with the categories, as Wordpress and Drupal both allowed for entries to belong to multiple categories and NucleusCMS does not, but all in all, it was a very painless conversion.
Drupal really wasn't right for me. It was a bit heavy for my purposes, and I really dislike the available themes, many of which use table-based layouts, which I oppose.

As silly a reason as it is, I chose NucleusCMS because there seems to be a large number of themes that are pretty suitable "out of the box". I really just don't feel like creating my own, or heavily modifying existing themes anymore.

I am hoping to get this site going again, starting with this entry. I have done a lot of different things with my home servers in the past year, and would really like to write a few howto's. Guess we'll see what happens...