Tuesday
May 15th 2007PeterGetting My Life Back! & Tech stuff
I fear I may have given a bad impression of my upgrade experiences! Actually the problems were mainly caused by the fact that I was upgrading by installing on top of an existing installation (something not recommended by the Fedora Project) but that was so that I preserved all the original settings for the web server, and the various other tools I had installed on the system, and in fact the strategy worked. The webserver and all the other bits and pieces worked immediately after the upgrade, the problems were caused by the graphical tools that I use for general computing! (again poor practice really – a server should be dedicated to just that, but the set up works!
I have added links to the last post for anyone who is interested, and the system is now working well both as the server, and as my general computer. However Amazon have just delivered “Fedora Linux” by Chris Tyler (published by O’Reilly) which I would recommend to anyone thinking about installing a Linux system. (Other books include“Fedora 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible” or “Red Hat Fedora Core 6 Unleashed”) Any one is well worth the investment! (Perhaps I should have read it before embarking on the upgrqade, although I’m not sure I would have changed the overall strategy.)
Having browsed the book, there are somethings that I might have done differently and some more things I should do eventually. Certainly a clean install on a fresh disk drive would have been less messy, but it would have taken longer to get the blog and everything else up and running. Still, I learned a lot in the process!
It is still wet and windy here in Hampshire, I am at work at the moment (it is a quiet afternoon) but I shall be leaving to brave the traffic shortly! Another stage in getting my life back!
So… Onwards and upwards!
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Elspeth on 16 May 2007 at 2:56 am #
Do you mean AT WORK as in real work?? Well done if so, congratulations!
O&U. L’nHS, E OOOXX
Richard on 16 May 2007 at 7:35 am #
Blow that, me hearty, do you mean driving on your own?///////////…………there are enough people out there without you distractedly thinking of Laundryton, Upgrades by unsullied young ladies and DIVING. That is without reading the new IT books on the steering wheel 🙂
It’s raining here too so I must be wrong, interestingly today is the Hospice tennis tournament so we expect a looooong lunch.
Peter on 16 May 2007 at 9:30 am #
Elspeth, yes, really back at work in the office – although not full time !
Richard – I have been driving for ages – it was only for a few weeks post transplant that I couldn’t drive. However I am not diving – but as that is a hobby, I can wait until I am fit again and redo the medical! (Might see about going out in the boat though)
Liz on 16 May 2007 at 1:00 pm #
Hope your weather is getting better. Hope work is going ok too!
Lots of love,
Liz
Neil G on 16 May 2007 at 3:42 pm #
Not sure Richard is of this world.
Any idea which planet he is from – any fool knows it is impossible to dive drive read and IT book think about Laundryton(??:?) and unsulied young ladies all at the same time.
Peter on 16 May 2007 at 4:04 pm #
Laundryton is a town in the Ukraine.. although that doesn’t seem to help much (I’d bet Richard is good at cryptic crossword puzzles…) However a google searh on laundrytown does throw up some tenuous connections…!
Richard on 17 May 2007 at 7:22 am #
Washington;
Virgin Airways,
Upgrade to a higher seat
Peter is multi talented so all seems possible 🙂
Simon (BT) on 17 May 2007 at 1:35 pm #
Hi there – glad to see you are back at work perhaps we really DO stand a chance of getting those beers one day!!
Must try as loads to tell you
As you say onwards and Upwards
S
Peter on 17 May 2007 at 2:01 pm #
Richard.. Ah – I understand! It was a while since I was doing that – different job now!
Simon – Great to haer from you! I’ll look forward to it – I was in London today, next appointment in 4 weeks, although there may be one before that…