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Updated NB

Alright! I updated NB on this computer as well. Boy! Did I create a mess! First, when I updated this machine, I erased my local copy of the blog. Good thing there was an extra there on the website! Then I downloaded the wrong blog because I had not used very clear names originally. Anyway, after too many hours today, I have it working again on this machine, though pictures remain untested (and I wasn't able to get them working on the other machine).

I first tried to move over to blosxom on this machine. But after way too many hours of working to get perl going in the chroot environment, I gave up. I have followed the instructions on the web, but they are wrong. I'm sorry, but they are. It just doesn't work. I then tried to install perl in /var/www to get kwiki going (at least), but this failed with a no more memory error, or something similar. Enough for one day.

I was thinking about getting a new AMD machine from Sun to run the solaris 10 OS on, but after this repeated failures here on the OpenBSD machine, I'm strongly considering continuing with mac as my desktop machine. It pretty much just works. Not always, but mostly. I've spent weeks trying to get cyrus-imapd installed and the perl thing. I finally have cyrus-imapd working (yea!!! ), but webdav still fails. I am just so tired of having a slow OS, but maybe that is preferable wasting many hours trying to get things working. Anyway, I really have wasted far too much time on this now. I may keep blosxom on this machine to get a picture blog going. The only use of this would be to reduce the size of our space on the .Mac server, but it may not be worth it. Blosxom will run as a static server, but this is no better than using nb as I am doing now, really.

The webdav thing really gets me. It was working. Now it won't work no matter what I do. Even though I have the same configuration. Very odd and very frustrating.