I've fired up DNS, and re-opened TCP ports to allow outside traffic back into my local network. This blog should now be available to the outside world.
I've decided to take a different approach this time with content. Rather than create a large repo for downloadable files for my webpage, or a library of every picture my family has taken, I've decided to just blog. Regardless of who reads this, I figure a habit of keeping a journal is a good thing, and it could be fun to open it up to a larger group of people. In the past, people used this page to find more information about the Secrist family, and a few even attended family reunions we hold here in Utah. BTW, Utah is a great place for learning more about your family history.
I registered this domain name years ago when I got married and started my own family. I didn't actually intend for it to be for all Secrist people everywhere. I don't know Ryan Seacrest, nor am I directly related. People used to ask me if I knew Ryan before he did American Idol, which leaves me wondering if the person they had in mind is the same man. It is still fun to say "Secrist Out", and have it actually mean something to people.
I haven't really done the blog thing before. Something feels strange about just putting random thoughts out on to the web. Since I code for a living, most of the typing I do ends with semi colons rather than periods. Also, because I tend to work on small fragments most of the day, my thoughts are often a tangle, and not well organized. I've learned over the years however, that being good at computer code does not necessarily help with communicating with other engineers (or people!), so perhaps this blog thing will help with that.
As far as my new system goes, most of the software I had been using before to host my site still exists, however much of it has been updated. I am moving from SuSE 8.1 (2.4 kernel) to Fedora 9 (2.6 kernel). Many of the packages have also been updated, and I am having to learn new features such as SELinux. In nearly all cases, I have not been able move the configuration files directly, rather I have had to hand craft them from examples and templates given to me by Fedora. The basics are still the same however, as this site is still backed by Postgresql.
One other difference, rather than compile everything by hand, this time I am just using YUM. That sucker sure saves me a lot of time, with the minor caveat of having to know where Fedora puts stuff. Thank goodness for UPDATEDB.
I've decided to take a different approach this time with content. Rather than create a large repo for downloadable files for my webpage, or a library of every picture my family has taken, I've decided to just blog. Regardless of who reads this, I figure a habit of keeping a journal is a good thing, and it could be fun to open it up to a larger group of people. In the past, people used this page to find more information about the Secrist family, and a few even attended family reunions we hold here in Utah. BTW, Utah is a great place for learning more about your family history.
I registered this domain name years ago when I got married and started my own family. I didn't actually intend for it to be for all Secrist people everywhere. I don't know Ryan Seacrest, nor am I directly related. People used to ask me if I knew Ryan before he did American Idol, which leaves me wondering if the person they had in mind is the same man. It is still fun to say "Secrist Out", and have it actually mean something to people.
I haven't really done the blog thing before. Something feels strange about just putting random thoughts out on to the web. Since I code for a living, most of the typing I do ends with semi colons rather than periods. Also, because I tend to work on small fragments most of the day, my thoughts are often a tangle, and not well organized. I've learned over the years however, that being good at computer code does not necessarily help with communicating with other engineers (or people!), so perhaps this blog thing will help with that.
As far as my new system goes, most of the software I had been using before to host my site still exists, however much of it has been updated. I am moving from SuSE 8.1 (2.4 kernel) to Fedora 9 (2.6 kernel). Many of the packages have also been updated, and I am having to learn new features such as SELinux. In nearly all cases, I have not been able move the configuration files directly, rather I have had to hand craft them from examples and templates given to me by Fedora. The basics are still the same however, as this site is still backed by Postgresql.
One other difference, rather than compile everything by hand, this time I am just using YUM. That sucker sure saves me a lot of time, with the minor caveat of having to know where Fedora puts stuff. Thank goodness for UPDATEDB.
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