2buntu

8:50 PM

"Forgive them for they know not what they do" ~Jesus

Oh my. @MarcoCeppi knows everything. RUN!

@MarcoCeppi go ahead, and argue with Jesus, I bet I know who wins

@JamesGifford you have to pay 12 dollars a year to map your domain to wordpress?

@TheX um, what?

I didn't know that..

en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/…

unless I am misunderstanding it

OH. That. that's so that we can have posts like 2buntu.com/2011/01/test-blah-blah

I'd just set up a CNAME record, which points to 2buntu.wordpress.com. We'd keep the 2buntu.wordpress.com/2011/01/test-blah-blash stuff

8:58 PM

oh so the 2buntu.com would just be the entry point...

yeah..

9:11 PM

I have no patiences, I don't want to wait to change the name server....

added a cname record pointing to 2buntu.wordpress.com

@JamesGifford hopefully that will do it

but I really don't know, as I have never done this before

Should work. Hope it'll work.

if not you owe me 5 bucks :P

I'll buy it off of you in June if it doesn't work. :P (June's my first paycheck)

So that means you have 3 months to make it work :-P

something like that. :P

9:21 PM

well 2 and a half

nah its cool, if we can't figure it out, surely someone out there knows...

probably.

10:03 PM

@MarcoCeppi why do I feel slightly afraid? O.o

Like if I have done something wrong O.o

Marco Ceppi

@RolandTaylor Nothing wrong - just giving you guys a place to plot. It's all about Signal v Noise. In the main room this is a lot of noise, here it's a clear 5 bar signal

:P

kk

Marco Ceppi

Give you guys a place to plot and plan the new blog :)

You are all welcome in the main room - so don't think you've been banished

@JamesGifford I am not so sure about buying 2buntu.com, due to how close it would be to ubuntu.com, but it is something I may consider doing in the near future

@MarcoCeppi lol cool :D

@RolandTaylor I already bought the domain...

10:08 PM

@TheX wow

O.o

Thanks ^^

we just have to figure out how to point it to the blog

ahh

let me make you admin again

wordpress advised me against having more than one admin lol

lol

1 sec

I need to clear up these tabs in ff

no problem

10:11 PM

there we go

I didn't know panorama had live previews before O.o

awesomeness!

panorama?

yeah it's the tab grouping feature of firefox

wait, to redirect a URL for wordpress don't you need to pay for that?

oh yeah...

@RolandTaylor I think...

we can point to domain to the blog...

and it will redirect it...

so it you go to 2buntu.com

ahh

and it takes you to 2buntu.wordpress.com

10:15 PM

d'oh!

that's true :P

silly me

if you use their service it does 2buntu.com/;kadjsfasdjfl;adfjsadfj

or whatever

nice

I am cheap and won

won't pay for their service

but we could get some ad support, google adsence or something

I'm kinda surprised/flattered/etc that you guys thought of that, and that you actually bought a domain O.o

I'm planning to put adsense on, would make a lot of sense (especially as I currently cannot pay anyone)

I think it is 12 dollars a year or something for them to map it

10:17 PM

ahh

well hopefully, I'll soon be able to foot that bill ^^

I have an adsence account if you want to temp, use that...

I think I even have 50 cents on it... lol

that would be cool with me, in fact, you can take the rev from it (full)

now you are an admin it should be easy for you to set it up

if it gets enough revenue, we could possibly use their service for the mapping, or at least buy everyone a round of beer

ya

oh wow, i have 3.16 that is half the domain right there

10:20 PM

I'll be pushing some local business soon, so when I do I'll try to add some more features to the blog, and possibly monetize more ^^

sweet!

I don't even know where that add is...

lol

unless it is on one of my blogs...

lol

must be a google bot "clicking" randomly

can't seem to figure out how to add it...

@RolandTaylor I can't get it to save my add

@TheX I've never had to redirect with CNAME, since I've always used free hosting so far with subdomains

:(

we will need to call in the big guns!

brb

@RolandTaylor that ai have to wat for...

could take up to 24 hours

10:30 PM

(gonna be back in approx 20minutes)

yeah me too, gotta go get som emilk for the wife...

@TheX well, I guess that should be okay O.o

(about 24hrs)

11:07 PM

@RolandTaylor are you there?

back

I was thinking, I'm gonna write up some FAQ, including a more proper explanation of what the blog is about (also gonna expand the about page) and what our contributors do, and whether it's a commercial thing or not (it isn't but just for the sake of clarity)

Sure :D

Just let me know if I am doing anything wrong

not that I know of :D

lol I will though if anything comes up ^^

I hope i didn't step on your twos or anything by buying the domain, perhaps I should have asked first... but you know how I get excited about things

I want 2buntu to be kind of like a blog/wiki - where contributors and editors (and us the admins) work together (including editing each other's stuff) to provide useful news, tips, reviews, documentation, etc

actually I was cool with that - my only concern was the "buying" part, cause I was like O.O someone else's money was spent

but then I thought about it and it was okay - cause that's part of the spirit of FOSS

11:16 PM

eh.. 5 dollars a year is nothing...

^^ if it's cool with you, it's cool with me

:D

wordpress seems to hate adsence

wow

it won't work?

nah I can't seem to get it to work maybe you can...

here is the code

oh whoops

not that

I don't see any problems with it; I wonder if wordpress doesn't allow it?

I'll have to look and see if that's a premium feature

11:24 PM

I looked I didn't see anything...

but that is not to say I am not blind out one eye, and can't see out the other

apparently they don't allow it :/

en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain

what does that have to do with wordsense?

I mean adsense?

if you read the grey area, they say something about how it doesn't mean you get allowed advertising - inferring ads are not allowed :/

en.support.wordpress.com/advertising

:-(

bastards

lol I just stumbled on that too

that's crappy

Not that making money is my goal or anything (it really honestly isn't), but myself or others should be allowed to run ads (at least the way I see it)

11:35 PM

Well we should at the very least break even...

I mean not that I don't mind donating 5 dollars...

but if we could use adsense to buy more premium stuff

I will look into the option a little later this year, when I start to bring in some dinero locally

I think it would only be fair if for example yourself and other members can run ads/etc

I say we like I have some sort of ownership, it is YOUR blog :=P