2buntu

TheX

00:00

000webhost.com

Roland Taylor

lol what a name

TheX

yeah that is about what they provide too 000 uptime

then if you get to many hits, they kill you for 24 hours

Roland Taylor

gosh the free hosting is horrid

George Edison

Ok, so what's this about?

Jacob

I could host it...

Roland Taylor

00:08

@TheX purchased a domain (TLD), so we are trying to find a free host to put a small splash page on

George Edison

Oh, okay.

TheX

@GeorgeEdison basically we want to take 2buntu.com (which I own) and make it point to a splashpage or some sort, and then have that redirect to the 2buntu blog

George Edison

That's not hard.

Who's hosting the 2buntu blog?

Is it Wordpress?

Jacob

@TheX I'd host it :)

Roland Taylor

wordpress.com

@Jacob hi btw

George Edison

00:08

Okay, don't they allow you to specify a domain?

Then you can have it point directly to the blog.

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison not without giving up your arm, leg, and possibly an eye, as well.

George Edison

...no need for a splash.

@RolandTaylor Really? They don't make it easy?

TheX

@GeorgeEdison it cost 12 dollars a year to have them map a domain

so unless you have 12 dollars to donate :P

George Edison

@TheX Forget it then.

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison you have to pay, and currently I can't.

George Edison

00:10

Back to your idea.

TheX

lol

Roland Taylor

heh

So @Jacob what are the details?

TheX

@Jacob yeah if you host it, can I point my domain to you?

@Jacob to it rather

George Edison

@RolandTaylor What happens is that you create an A record that points to his IP address..

Jacob

@TheX point toward my DNS

TheX

00:12

@RolandTaylor lol

2buntu.com

George Edison

...then you get him to have his web server respond to requests for that domain.

Roland Taylor

haha

@GeorgeEdison sound like a plan

^wordpress btw

TheX

I don't care just tell me what i need to do to make it happen :-D

Roland Taylor

(not you guys)

George Edison

I have no idea how to do it though... (except I do know how to set up Apache to respond to requests for a domain - but that's no help in this case).

Jacob

00:13

@TheX point the Arecord toward 96.248.216.99

Roland Taylor

George Edison

^--- That's the splash?

Roland Taylor

@TheX if you are doing the splash, you can use that image btw

Jacob

Do you want a splash redirect, or just a redirect?

TheX

lets get this figured out first

George Edison

00:14

@Jacob: I can set up the splash redirect...?

I can create a quick HTML page with a META redirect.

TheX

then we will figure out what to put on it

Roland Taylor

Splash redirect is safer, to keep with wp rules

yeah

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison right

George Edison

So I should do that now?

TheX

okay i added a "a" record to the ip you gave me

Roland Taylor

00:16

invalid hostname error now

George Edison

@RolandTaylor That's good.

Jacob

@RolandTaylor because I haven't set a host header for your site

TheX

@RolandTaylor yeah it make take some time to propogate

George Edison

That means his server is replying to the request.

@TheX You can flush your DNS cache.

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison make that http page and put it in e:\2buntu

George Edison

00:17

@Jacob Okay.

TheX

@GeorgeEdison say what?

Roland Taylor

good stuff

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison 16 people went to challenge.meta.so yesterday :)

George Edison

@Jacob Okay, E:\2buntu is created. I'll stick the page in in a minute.

TheX

I guess I am supposed to go make supper or something

Roland Taylor

00:20

I'm hanging around (always looking to learn anything I can!)

TheX

So I will be back later

Roland Taylor

@TheX ahh aight, cya later dude and thanks a million ^^

TheX

yeah this is some technical stuff... I am not even sure what is going on...

Roland Taylor

I have a clue - but I've never had to set up on that level before :P

Jacob

@RolandTaylor Don't worry, I'm a sys admin... :)

George Edison

00:23

@RolandTaylor What's the final URL that it redirects to?

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison 2buntu.wordpress.com

I'd guess?

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison ^

Sorry I was in another tab for a second there.

Jacob

@RolandTaylor do you want me to just host the blog?

Roland Taylor

just a small page

Jacob

vs the redirect

Roland Taylor

00:25

you could host the whole thing?

(free? O.o?)

Jacob

@RolandTaylor sure

George Edison

@Jacob I got it in there now.

Roland Taylor

hmmm

I think that would be pretty great, only I would have to find out how to transfer to your server

Jacob

@RolandTaylor I'd need to do it, I'd have to dump the mysql tables and what not

Roland Taylor

ahh

I think a redirect is much more straight forward (we could discuss transferring eventually).

Jacob

00:28

@RolandTaylor sure

Roland Taylor

BTW, slightly off-topic, but, you host for free as a hobby?

George Edison

@Jacob Does the redirect work?

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison standby

hmm strange

anyone get it?

Roland Taylor

Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.

George Edison

Not working for me.

Jacob

00:33

@RolandTaylor hmm

George Edison

I'm getting:

> "Warning! Domain mapping upgrade for this domain not found. Please log in and go to the Domains Upgrades page of your blog to use this domain. "

Jacob

because it doesnt see your index

Roland Taylor

yeah

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison flush DNS

George Edison

@Jacob I did.

Roland Taylor

00:34

works for me now

George Edison

@RolandTaylor Oh, good. Then my part was a success.

Roland Taylor

^^ gj! ty ty ty!

Jacob

@RolandTaylor np

@RolandTaylor yeah, I have a job and a hobby, it's great!

Roland Taylor

Ahh! Got it :D!

You remind me of myself at your age, only I didn't have a server of my own. :(

Keep it up and you'll be rewarded ;)!

George Edison

@Jacob: Does Windows Server 2003 work well for you?

@RolandTaylor Yeah, me too :)

Jacob

00:37

@GeorgeEdison Yeah?

why?

George Edison

Oh, okay.

Just wondering.

Roland Taylor

Really is does?

I didn't get to work at my last job :P

George Edison

Some day I might stick it on one of my servers... when I get one :P

Jacob

@RolandTaylor Well, I use it for simple stuff

Roland Taylor

But that was partly because the guy who was supposed to be our expert was a con-man!

(Turns out I was more expert than he is)

Jacob

00:38

@GeorgeEdison I know where I can get you a cheap VPS :)

George Edison

@Jacob Lemme guess... Linode.

(Actually, that wouldn't work for Windows :P)

Roland Taylor

hehe

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison nope I work for a cloud solutions company(but thats a bit expensive for you)

so

If you ever buy a server from like ebay you could colo it here :)

Roland Taylor

So Jacob, for further FOSS project hosting, I can talk to you?

Jacob

@RolandTaylor Sure

Roland Taylor

00:40

awesome!

Jacob

ugh I always close out tabs..

Roland Taylor

heh, I know how that goes...

George Edison

At least Chrome remembers what it was.

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison true

Roland Taylor

is inspired

Jacob

00:42

@RolandTaylor huh?

Roland Taylor

lol I mean I was inspired by an act of kindness (hence /me is inspired)

@Jacob @GeorgeEdison mind if I mention you in a post?

(a thank you post)

Jacob

@RolandTaylor sure

@GeorgeEdison although thats not a 1/2bad idea.. you could get a 50 dollar used server off ebay, and I could host it here

Roland Taylor

I might consider that myself

I've got a system sitting here... when my business relaunches this year I'll consider that

(and possibly giving you a little $ for the kindness if possible)

George Edison

@RolandTaylor Sure.

Roland Taylor

2buntu.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/2buntu-now-has-a-com

Jacob

00:49

@RolandTaylor what kind of business?

Roland Taylor

I do web dev, graphic design (unofficially) and provide tech support

Jacob

@RolandTaylor ah

Roland Taylor

(tech = (and I hate this) fixing windows problems/removing viruses and installing/configuring/fixing ubuntu (the part I love to do :P))

Jacob

@RolandTaylor I have to use both Windows and Linux

@RolandTaylor I fix both Linux and Windows, so I run both

Roland Taylor

I used to be on both, now I only fix windows when people ask, but I don't run it anymore since I can't stay on long enough to keep vista up to date

brb

TheX

00:57

hi

George Edison

@RolandTaylor I'm running Vista right now.

Jacob

@TheX hey

TheX

we are we at with our project?

George Edison

@TheX We're done.

It's all set up now.

TheX

oh??

Roland Taylor

00:59

yep

2buntu.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/2buntu-now-has-a-com

TheX

I saw that...

but when i go to 2buntu.com

it doesn't work

are we still waiting for it to propgate?

George Edison

@TheX I think so.

Roland Taylor

probably

George Edison

You can flush your DNS cache though.

TheX

kk

how do I do that...

wiat don't answer that you will tell me destruction for Ubuntu

and I am in windows

Jacob

01:01

@TheX ipconfig /flushdns

George Edison

@TheX I'm on Windows too.

TheX

yeah got it

I AM GOING TO KILL SOMEONE!

Jacob

@TheX ??

TheX

as if it wasn't bad enough having my wife nag me, her sister is here!

Jacob

@TheX :)

TheX

01:04

I had a nice stress free day (took a personal day) wife comes home from work stress increases to 50%, wife's sister comes over stress increases 150%

EvilPhoenix

lol

TheX

so how do i preview our splash screen?

George Edison

@TheX DNS still not working for you?

TheX

no...

George Edison

Me neither :P

TheX

01:07

did i set up my domain right?

my = the

Roland Taylor

back

George Edison

@TheX @Roland said it was working.

TheX

@RolandTaylor screen shot or it didn't happen

Roland Taylor

omg your sister in law O.O

k 1 sec

TheX

and no editing :P

Roland Taylor

01:10

gah hard to catch it :D

lol

k wait

I was trying to use a ff addon to save it

TheX

nice...

Roland Taylor

but it redirected by the time I hit save as

TheX

I like... :D

Roland Taylor

me too :D

<3 @GeorgeEdison (in a perfectly manly way)

TheX

makes it feel even more legit :-D

Roland Taylor

01:12

yep ^^

and! the coolest part is, we can add anything we like to that one

including rebecca black (muhahaha)

(jk)

TheX

as the other admin, I veto any references to rebecca black

Roland Taylor

rofl

agreed

George Edison

@TheX Double agreed.

TheX

to bad you have 5000 tabs open, that screen shot would be great for you announcement

Roland Taylor

Shutter ftw! Gonna edit and post it ^^

TheX

01:16

awesome :D

George Edison

You want to see 5000 tabs...

Roland Taylor

better yet, gonna use panorama to my advantage :)

@GeorgeEdison o.o

TheX

lol yeah actually that would be awesome

I currently have 15

George Edison

My best attempt.

Roland Taylor

O.o

gah

TheX

01:19

@GeorgeEdison lol nice

Roland Taylor

That's a nightmare lol!

TheX

@GeorgeEdison how slow is your puter now?

George Edison

@TheX It's fine... those were all empty tabs :)

TheX

5000 memory leaks here we come!

George Edison

There's 27, by the way.

I wish it would create 2 rows when there's that many.

TheX

01:20

I am not far behind then...

Roland Taylor

@TheX when you're done editing let me know (so I can add the screenshot)

TheX

like I said I have 15 open

Roland Taylor

lol there goes one of his tabs

TheX

@RolandTaylor actually I am not editing... let me see if I can find a tab that has it open...

Roland Taylor

cool ^^

TheX

01:22

nope, you should be good

Roland Taylor

k gonna add that screenshot now

TheX

koo

Roland Taylor

done :D

TheX

That is awesome

I think i am going to do some netflixing...

Roland Taylor

cool ^^

Roland Taylor

17:07

yay

(kinda cool having a room of our own lol)

TheX

lol yeah

that is because marco thought we were creating to much "noise" in the other room

I think it was because he was jealous...

anyways I was thinking, we should put a tip jar, or at the very least, put the adsense on the 2buntu.com page...

Roland Taylor

I was thinking the same thing

TheX

I see no shame in subjecting our visitors to an add for 5 seconds, to help bring new premium features to the blog...

Roland Taylor

+1 on that ^^

TheX

But that is up to you, it is your blog...

Roland Taylor

17:10

I was thinking to put together a more extensive landing page too

the blog of itself should remain free of anything like that, but the .com can get whatever you want (it is your URL lol)

it's all in the spirit of community to me ^^

TheX

Yeah we can work on that, but lets at least get an ad on there

I agree the blog it self doesn't need any junk on it...

Roland Taylor

so you wanna add adsense alone then (on the splash)?

TheX

and if one small ad on the .com gets us some revenue that would be great

I am thinking like just under the you will be redirected in 5 seconds, just stick a little banner down there

Roland Taylor

yep

TheX

nothing to big or obnoxious

Roland Taylor

17:13

I was thinking it would be a good way to pay you back for buying the domain actually

TheX

because I hate ads as much as the next guy

@RolandTaylor consider it a donation

Roland Taylor

@TheX :D

TheX

I will write it off on my taxes next year

Roland Taylor

cool ^^

lol

TheX

and they will laugh at me...

do you have access to the host?

Roland Taylor

17:15

not yet

I didn't work out those details with Jacob yet

TheX

oh okay... eventually we will probably want that...

Roland Taylor

yeah I was gonna do it last night but we didn't get the time for it

TheX

so we can make changes at will instead of depending on Jacob to do it

Roland Taylor

I'm honestly overwhelmed by the positive responses :)

it's touching lol

TheX

I like to see things succeed above and beyond their fullest potential and am willing to do what I can to help with that... even if its fullest potential is just the three of us...

Roland Taylor

17:19

I believe others will join soon

once the site shows up in the community promotion list and people start to check it out more

TheX

Yeah I agree, but no way to predict the future for certian :-D

Roland Taylor

we will just have to guard against people trying to use it to make a dollar or promote themselves, or spammers lol

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I had to switch to classic mode, guys i've been with Ubuntu from the beginning this is sad i cannot figure out how to get to things using unity! 2 seconds in old gnome and i'm there or done. Once i switched back to classic i was finaly able to use 11.04 in a functional way. I'm spending way to mu...

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(sorry off-topic - but LOL (and read my comment))

TheX

yeah I am willing to give back 100% of the ad revenue back to the blog, because I didn't miss it before, and I won't in the future... whether that is buying coffee for late night writing binges, or buying premium features, or compensating certain writers or whatever for their time

obviously no one is going to get rich

Roland Taylor

haha

I don't want any revenue myself though O.o

TheX

I think we got a new reader

Roland Taylor

17:25

but then...

with you as the other admin that's no problem :D

puts all concerns behind him

TheX

you would take a cup of coffee or a can of beer if I bought you one though wouldn't you?

or whatever your preferred caffeinated drink is...

Roland Taylor

\o/ a new reader

ofc I would :D

(I like colas btw)

(especially pepsi)

TheX

elricl.wordpress.com just left a comment on my post

never seen him around before

Roland Taylor

same here

TheX

so that means new people are finding us somehow

Roland Taylor

17:32

I was watching the stats for a while

and I wasn't sure if the site was getting out there

but apparently it is

\o/

TheX

the stats are a great way to find topics to write about... too

because if you look at what people are searching when they find us...

Roland Taylor

that's true ^^

TheX

that shows you what they are interested in...

Roland Taylor

I found a lot of the links suggest people are interested directly in ubuntu as a whole

so I'm going to try to find ways to focus on the strong points of the OS as a platform

TheX

:D

like today someone found us by searching for "is ubuntu 11.04 beta upgradeable to final"

or "alternative open source browsers for windows"\

both would be great topics

Roland Taylor

17:35

sweet!

I'm going to try doing that as a kind of project for myself

which reminds me to write that post I promised for power users to upgrade

TheX

which one?

Roland Taylor

one that explains how to upgrade to Natty without using the update manager

it's a manual method, but it's potentially safer (if patience is used)

TheX

gotcha

KOffice for windows??? Yikes...

Roland Taylor

yep there is (but don't install it unless you like tons of dependencies :P)

TheX

lol i am not gonna touch it

Roland Taylor

17:42

I ended up having to install about 250mb for digikam alone

TheX

yeah...

Roland Taylor

So, how is your challenge going so far?

enjoying it or pulling your hair out?

TheX

actually it is has been rather smooth... I am worried about work on Monday though...

I am going to have to find a open source PDF editor...

Roland Taylor

hmmm

that's probably gonna be a tough one

TheX

Yeah...

I might have to send the pdf to someone else and make them do it lol

Roland Taylor

17:49

there is a pdf import extension for LibreOffice, and it can save PDF, but I'm not sure how that will go :/

and I don't think pdf mod works on windows

TheX

basically what needs to happen is...

one of our schools releases a news document..

but when they send it to me, they send it in multiple documents///

it ranges from 2-6 pages

So I get 2-6 individual pdfs

so what I do is use acrobat to combine them to one document, then upload them to the webpage

Roland Taylor

hmmm

there must be SOMETHING that does that on windows

(you could do it on linux using pdf mod)

TheX

Yeah...

@Jacob hallo

Jacob

@TheX Hi

Roland Taylor

yay \o/

TheX

17:52

I don't know, I will figure that out Monday, and then go from there...

Roland Taylor

hai @Jacob

TheX

maybe it will be my blog post

Day 5: Adobe Pisses me off again!

Roland Taylor

alternativeto.net/software/pdf-mod/?platform=windows

Jacob

@RolandTaylor whats up?

Roland Taylor

:D

woot woot

@Jacob we were wondering if we could get access to the server (to edit our files)

Jacob

17:54

@RolandTaylor sure,to edit the splash?

Roland Taylor

@TheX bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591773

@Jacob yep

are we able to add other HTML/image files too?

TheX

@RolandTaylor this could work sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit

Roland Taylor

it has a windows version?

TheX

I guess so...

Roland Taylor

ahh

I've used it once (only once) and that was years ago :P

TheX

17:57

ahh just source...

Jacob

@RolandTaylor sure, you want to host a bugtracker?

Roland Taylor

@Jacob not a bug tracker, we would add adsense to the home page, and possibly information pages and links (like to OMG Ubuntu etc)

a bug tracker is not something I could keep track of so to speak :D

Jacob

@RolandTaylor Well, the page just redirects, so there's not much point

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