~ Tea & Strumpets

Well, after many years of using Typo as my main blogging engine, I have switched back to WordPress. I had initially started using Typo because it was the only Rails-based blogging engine out there. Unfortunately, the quality of their project seems to have declined over the years.

After Typo decided to explode at me after using a quotation mark in tag for a new post, I decided I would go back to WordPress, my first blogging engine. WordPress has a long and well supported history and I will likely have fewer headaches for a blog that I barely touch in the first place.

Unfortunately, since there are no up-to-date utilities to migrate the database from Typo to WordPress, I ended up having to copy/paste all of the articles that I felt were worth saving. The problem was that I couldn’t copy over any of the comments made to any of my posts.

I apologize to anyone who left helpful/supportive comments over the years, but I couldn’t save you all!

Well, I finally decided to upgrade my old Power Macintosh G4 (Quicksilver 2002) with a new server. Much like the old server, the new one is running Gentoo, however, the new server is an Intel box that was supplied by my father for free. Beggars can’t be choosers, eh?

Old Server:
CPU: PowerPC 7455
CPU Speed: 933 MHz
Memory: 1.0 GB
Storage: ~600 GB

New Server:
CPU: Intel Pentium 4
CPU Speed: 2.80 GHz
Memory: 3.0 GB
Storage: 2 TB

As much as I hate to switch to an ugly PC box, it is only for server use. That is, basically the new ugly black box is my mail/web/music/file server. Hopefully, now that it is all set up, I’ll actually get around to posting random nonsense into this blog.