2buntu

James Gifford

20:32

Someone with money needs to buy 2buntu.com NOW. And then point it to 2buntu.wordpress.com.

TheX

Domains are expensive when no one has any money

James Gifford

Very. Even with mediatemple's $5/year for domains.

TheX

media temple is 5 a year?

James Gifford

for .com, .net and .org.

that's all they can register.

TheX

I will buy a domain for that

James Gifford

20:35

um, ok.

TheX

its mine...

James Gifford

nice.

TheX

but I can point that to the blog?

I have never done that before

James Gifford

yeah. give me a moment to find the exact record name.

TheX

I can't find my wallet

nevermind found it

James Gifford

20:39

CNAME.

CNAME to 2buntu.wordpress.com

Thanks for moving us here @MarcoCeppi. :P

Marco Ceppi

You're welcome :)

← 17 messages moved from Ask Ubuntu General Room

TheX

hi

lol

we have been disposed from the general chat room :=P

2

James Gifford

We've been banished. XP

TheX

Oh well they can shun us... they just won't know what they are doing...

Marco Ceppi

General rule of thumb I take - if a conversation about one topic involving a small set of people about a localized topic - make a new room. @lazyPower and I must have made about 6 rooms in the past to just discuss Javascript stuff :)

I wouldn't say banished, but light relocation

Oh, and I will always know - everything.

Narrows eyes

Have fun!

TheX

20:50

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

James Gifford

Oh my. @MarcoCeppi knows everything. RUN!

TheX

@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?

James Gifford

@TheX um, what?

I didn't know that..

TheX

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

unless I am misunderstanding it

James Gifford

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

TheX

20:58

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

James Gifford

yeah..

TheX

21:11

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

James Gifford

Should work. Hope it'll work.

TheX

if not you owe me 5 bucks :P

James Gifford

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

TheX

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

James Gifford

something like that. :P

TheX

21:21

well 2 and a half

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

James Gifford

probably.

Roland Taylor

22:03

@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

Roland Taylor

: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

Roland Taylor

@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

TheX

@RolandTaylor I already bought the domain...

Roland Taylor

22:08

@TheX wow

O.o

Thanks ^^

TheX

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

Roland Taylor

ahh

let me make you admin again

wordpress advised me against having more than one admin lol

TheX

lol

Roland Taylor

1 sec

I need to clear up these tabs in ff

TheX

no problem

Roland Taylor

22:11

there we go

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

awesomeness!

TheX

panorama?

Roland Taylor

yeah it's the tab grouping feature of firefox

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

TheX

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

Roland Taylor

ahh

TheX

and it takes you to 2buntu.wordpress.com

Roland Taylor

22:15

d'oh!

that's true :P

silly me

TheX

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

or whatever

Roland Taylor

nice

TheX

I am cheap and won

won't pay for their service

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

Roland Taylor

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)

TheX

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

Roland Taylor

22:17

ahh

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

TheX

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

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

Roland Taylor

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

TheX

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

Roland Taylor

ya

TheX

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

Roland Taylor

22:20

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!

TheX

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

lol

unless it is on one of my blogs...

Roland Taylor

lol

must be a google bot "clicking" randomly

TheX

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

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

Roland Taylor

@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

TheX

@RolandTaylor that ai have to wat for...

could take up to 24 hours

Roland Taylor

22:30

(gonna be back in approx 20minutes)

TheX

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

Roland Taylor

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

(about 24hrs)

TheX

23:07

@RolandTaylor are you there?

Roland Taylor

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)

TheX

Sure :D

Just let me know if I am doing anything wrong

Roland Taylor

not that I know of :D

lol I will though if anything comes up ^^

TheX

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

Roland Taylor

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

TheX

23:16

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

Roland Taylor

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

TheX

:D

wordpress seems to hate adsence

Roland Taylor

wow

it won't work?

TheX

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

here is the code

oh whoops

not that

Roland Taylor

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

TheX

23:24

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

Roland Taylor

apparently they don't allow it :/

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

TheX

what does that have to do with wordsense?

I mean adsense?

Roland Taylor

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

TheX

en.support.wordpress.com/advertising

:-(

bastards

Roland Taylor

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)

TheX

23:35

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

Roland Taylor

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

TheX

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

Roland Taylor

en.support.wordpress.com/code

@TheX true

hopefully an updated about page (working on it) will help clarify everything ^^

TheX

no javascript...

Roland Taylor

LAME

they really need to do better than that...

TheX

23:43

lol, so not fair

Roland Taylor

every page I open on their documentation seems to start with "We don't allow"

TheX

lol yeah...

any experience with wordpress.org?

Roland Taylor

well the problem with wordpress.org is that we would need to host the site ourselves

TheX

yeah...

that is not entirely out of the realm of possibility you know

Roland Taylor

true

brb

TheX

23:50

man i forgot how expensive hosting is...

Roland Taylor

back

well, I'm pretty okay with running on wordpress.com for now

until I can pay for hosting and such

TheX

Yeah it was just a thought...

Roland Taylor

so, the domain you paid for, we can put a page on it?

like a splash screen kinda thing? or you would have to pay more?

TheX

the domain = url

what we could do...

and I thought of this on my way to get milk

is we could find some free hosting...

that we could put a splashscreen and then redirect it to blog

point the domain to the free host

Roland Taylor

ahh

time to hunt for free hosting

in fact, I'm gonna ask in general chat :P

TheX

23:57

:D

I know of one but it is HORRID!

Roland Taylor

lol what would that be? (P.S. I knew one - they disappeared and took my content with them)

TheX

000webhost.com

I think

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