February 2008

Drupal 6 is out!

Submitted February 23rd, 2008. Last changed February 24th, 2008

I thought I would try installing Drupal 6.0 on a subdomain just for fun, and document how it went, but it went so fast it didn't leave me much to say. What I did:

  • Get the tarball into the subdomain directory and unpack it. In my case that was a wget -c http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-6.0.tar.gz over ssh to my webroot directory.
  • Then create a database. In my case that was through the Dreamhost Web Panel.
  • Point the url to the drupal directory (DH Web Panel).

Tested under IE7

Submitted February 22nd, 2008. Last changed February 22nd, 2008

Yep. And it's not quite right.

Also tested on Firefox. Most of the time.

Stephen Fry on the eeepc, from an eeepc

Submitted February 22nd, 2008. Last changed February 22nd, 2008

This is nice to see:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/02/opensource.stephenfry

(Via BoingBoing)

He hasn't been hanging around at eeeuser.com, or he'd have mentioned Xandros, but at least he's talking about it. And using it.

Annoyance: name fields with insufficient character limits

Submitted February 16th, 2008. Last changed February 16th, 2008

This is just something that comes up once in a while. How is it that the name field on a payment form can ever be limited to fewer characters than I have on my card? Should there not be a standard maximum number of characters, agreed for practical purposes, by card issuers and entities wishing to take payments?