Some of you might have seen the announcement, but for those of you who haven’t, Cryptic Clarity moved and has a new home (plus a brand new forum!) If you’re using the latest version of WordPress (2.2.x) and are planning to move your blog to a new host, here’s what I did in 7 simple steps to help you along the way. All the tutorials I’ve found require a manual backup of your MySQL database before the move. This tutorial will show you how to backup your blogs and comments effortlessly without having to tinker with the MySQL database. The following is assumed in our example:
- Your account with your old host is still active.
- You own the domain for your blog: www.your-blog.net
- Root directory for your current blog installation: /wordpress
- You know the DNS for your new host: ns1.new-server.com, ns2.new-server.com
Ready…Set…Go!
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July 6th, 2007
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Previously on LinuxTag Comes to Springfield: Part I and Part II
The following evening at the Simpsons’. The family is watching TV when a newsflash cuts in.
Brockman: This is Kent Brockman, we interrupt Paris in Prison: the Reality Show to bring you this breaking news. LinuxTag received a bomb threat in writing this afternoon. A bomb would be placed at the LinuxTag fair should LinuxTag refuse to revoke Mr. Schaeuble’s patronage. Drastic means or empty threat? Arnie Pie talks to Mr. Schaeuble:
Camera cuts to Arnie in the Sky, together with Schaeuble flying in a helicopter.
Schaeuble: (singing to the tune of Don’t Cha) Doncha wish your Minister was tough like me? Doncha wish your Minister was strict like me? (stops singing) Jawohl, what do I tell you people? Terrorists are here, there, and everywhere! Only by bugging your phones and reading your email can we snuff out these criminals! Please, my dearest American friends, do yourself a favor, do world peace a favor, download and install this Federal Trojan, made in Germany!
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June 29th, 2007
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Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice cream by its diameter?
A: Pi á la mode.
It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! Those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere have just celebrated the official start of summer…ok, many probably didn’t even realize that was an official date, but the rising temperature and the cheerfulness is definitely palpable. I don’t know how you guys mark the beginning of your favorite reason, but I did get myself a triple-scoop ice cream - sesame with honey, chilli with chocolate, plus ginger - on an extra buttery cone. What are your favorite ice cream flavors? Maybe there are regional flavors where you are that you don’t get anywhere else? In Japan, for example, gourmets can enjoy octopus or kelp flavored ice cream, whereas in Taiwan I’ve seen pork flavored and green-tea flavored ice cream. I wonder if you get snail flavored ice cream in France?
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June 22nd, 2007
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Previously on LinuxTag Comes to Springsfield (Part I)
3 days later. The Simpsons are having breakfast when the door bell rings. Homer goes to get the door. It’s the mailman.
Homer: What do you want.
Mailman: What does it look like?
Homer: You selling insurance?
Mailman: I got a registered letter for Lisa Simpson.
Homer: Registered letter. Must be important.
Mailman: Whatever.
Homer: Can I read it before giving it to her?
Mailman: Like I care.
Homer: Do you have a registered letter for me?
Mailman: No.
Homer: Why not.
Mailman: Dunno.
Homer: Why are you so snappish.
Mailman: You’re annoying the hell outta me!
Homer: (shocked and offended) I never want to see you again! (slams the door and cries all the way back to the kitchen)
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June 15th, 2007
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At the Springfield Elementary.
Krabappel: OK class, can someone tell me what Linux is? Yes Ralph.
Ralph: You use it to blow yellow liquid out of your nose and block red liquid from coming out of your nose.
Bart: Don’t you mean “Kleenix”, Ms. “Rabappel”?
Class giggles.
Krabappel: Shut up Bart. Yes, Milhouse?
Milhouse: I saw it on the laptop of my dad’s divorce lawyer once: it’s some sorta penguin that likes to eat kernels of the Debian plant.
Krabappel: Milhouse! Why didn’t you tell me your dad’s getting a divorce! I want your father to call me after 10 o’clock tonight so we can discuss your academic dishonesty problem. As for the rest of the class, watch and learn!
Krabappel dims the room and puts a VHS in the VCR.
McClure: Hi! I’m Troy McClure, you may remember me from educational films such as Amoeba: What You Don’t Know Might Not Kill You and memorable blockbusters such as Snakes on the Rollercoaster. In the next 20 minutes we’ll be learning about this revolutionary operating system called Linux.
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June 1st, 2007
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It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! We looked at Linux on a YouTube video last time, and guess what, today we’ll be talking about the world’s oldest alcoholic beverage. Attentive Cryptic Clarity readers have probably noticed that our monthly feature was put on hold in April because of my disappointing trip to Hamburg for a Joanna Newsom concert, only to arrive at the concert hall faced with a cancellation notice. As I wandered about on the flamboyant Reeperbahn dejectedly at night, I noticed something curious: almost every bar and club has something like this on its sign or door.
What is Astra, I asked my Hamburger friend, and why is it on every bar and club?
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May 25th, 2007
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Update (4-10-2007): Check this video clip (.avi file: 12MB) out, which I took at a PC store in Taipei: A Fujitsu LifeBook s6311 running Windows Vista business edition. The device manager reports the processor is a Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 running at 2.00 GHz, but if you go to the control panel and look under system, it says it’s T5600 running at 1.83 MHz. The salesperson claimed it had a T5600 CPU. So is this a Vista bug or what?
Update (4-8-2007): I found official brochures from Fujitsu and Asus, both specify LifeBook s6311 and Asus W5Fe as having the “non-existent” T7200 L2 cache of 2MB. More typos?
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I’ve been looking to buy a 12” laptop with a track point in Taiwan where I’m taking a vacation.(Laptop makers of the world take note: there are MANY MANY MANY people desperately looking for laptops with a track point!) After a lot of browsing and comparing my only options are HP Compaq nc4400 and Lenovo ThinkPad x60. Both laptops have a configuration with the Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 processor which, according to the official specs from Intel, runs at 2GHz with 4MB of level 2 cache. After days of asking around, it became apparent that currently HP could only offer the nc4400 model with T5600, which runs at 1,83GHz and has a 2MB L2 cache. I am not a clockspeed person, but it’d be nice to have a bigger L2 cache so I turned to ThinkPad.
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March 30th, 2007
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