1. Corrected the case of SmartyPants.pl for compatibility with older machines/systems

2. Updated the templates to use $TM_FULLNAME rather than obsolete routines to try and determine the user’s name that no longer work.

3. A few other smaller issues…

Available at the project page

Most of these instructions were available elsewhere, and just had to be cobbled together. The process took several hours days to complete, including lots of trial and error. I’ll try and highlight some of the “gotchas” that I discovered.

WARNING: You can really screw up your computer if you do this wrong. This is the approach I used, but I can’t guarantee I documented every little step. Read the pages I link to. Several times. Make sure you understand the approach, and follow along on these pages during the actual process so you don’t forget anything. I don’t guarantee that any of this will work for you, or that you won’t frag your drive.

WARNING: As with all activities like this, be sure you have a working backup before you start doing this. On more than one occasion, I had moments of panic when I worried that I may have wiped my OS X partition. In fact, I never lost any data (that I’m aware of yet, anyway). But you want to be darn sure you’re covered.

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I recently bought an ASUS Eee PC1000HE. I wanted a new laptop, preferably something small and lightweight. I was also interested in getting a machine to run Ubuntu, and possibly even Windoze once in a while.

I am not actively maintaining my blosxom software any more, and was recently contacted by some developers who are. My plugins are now being hosted by the sourceforge development effort. Hopefully everything will get moved over and be more accessible and more up-to-date.

In any case, for now you can still access most of my blosxom software at my old site:

http://fletcher.freeshell.org/wiki/BlosxomPlugins

Here is a list of the plugins I have released to the public:

• Antispam Plugin
• Autolink Plugin
• Blacklist Plugin
• Blosxcss Plugin
• Blosxom Anacron Plugin
• BlosxomDebug
• Emptymessage Plugin
• EntriesCache Plugin
• Find Plugin
• Hide Plugin
• Iconset Plugin
• Imagegallery Plugin
• Karma Plugin
• Login Plugin
• Menu Plugin
• Recentwritebacks Plugin
• Redirect Plugin
• RelatedFiles Plugin
• Seewritebacks Plugin
• Writebackplus Plugin
• Zlocaldepth Plugin

1. I needed to set the group id bit on the cgi scripts so they could write to the directories. This may or may not be a security issue.

2. http://www.library.yale.edu/wsg/docs/permissions/sgid.htm

3. I had to use /mt-static (no trailing slash) to identify where the mt-static directory would be.

4. I need to figure out exactly how to lock things down with htaccess for better security.

I have written several modules for Oddmuse. Rather than duplicating effort at maintaining pages, those modules are now described solely at the Oddmuse site:

For those who don’t know, in my “other life” I am an academic hospitalist. Having appropriate medical utilities on my iPhone is quite a boon - no more carrying my palm pilot AND cell phone around…

This will be where I track which applications I am using the most (subjectively), and leave comments about some of them.

However, that seems unlikely to happen any time soon, unfortunately.