Banned Books Week – Celebrate Freedom

The message of Banned Books Week is more than the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular. The essential message of Banned Books Week is the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.

Read the rest at ALA.org.

A great idea for the week of September 21?28, 2002. Hey, would someone like to rig up a page pointing to booksellers based upon the lists provided?

So You Wanna Be a Web Programmer?

This JavaPro article says you should learn;

  1. HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
  2. Servlets and JSP
  3. JavaScript
  4. Structured Query Language (SQL) and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
  5. Web Container Administration and Application Deployment
  6. eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
  7. Model 2 Architecture, JSP Standard Tag Libraries (JSTL)
  8. Jakarta Taglibs Project and Other Libraries, Apache’s Struts Project,
  9. EXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
  10. Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
  11. Applet Programming
  12. The HTTP Protocol
  13. Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
  14. Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)

Temporary URL until DNS refreshes

Ahh the new home.

I couldn’t take the old host’s speed any longer, and I’ve heard good things about Kattare. So here I am (along with a set of other sites I manage).

A big thank you to Scott for the help 🙂. You saved the day.

I went the export/import route. If this were a non-personal site, or one which I knew users were linking to individual posts (I know they’re not here except for the hoax I accidently published last month), I would have went with your MySQL suggestion. In anycase, my static content hasn’t link-rotted 🙂

Almost there… need some help

At my new host I’m facing a variation of the infamous “I’ve moved my site and I can’t login” error. I’ve posted it to the support forum last night, but in the interest if expediency, let me ask you here.

So:

1. I’ve copied my MT installation to the new host.
2. I’ve editted mt.cfg to reflect the correct paths.
3. I believe I have the correct permissions.
4. I’ve ran mt-check.cgi and have gotten positive results.
5. I’ve been able to start mt.cgi without an error.

Then I get “Invalid login” error when attempting to sign in.

6. I’ve followed the instructions in the docs titled, “I changed hosts, and now I can’t log in to Movable Type.”

Here go the results:

1. > db_upgrade *.db *.idx
db_upgrade: author.db: DB->upgrade only supported on native byte-order systems

db_upgrade: DB->upgrade: author.db: Invalid argument

2. > db_dump author.db
db_dump: author.db: btree version 6 requires a version upgrade
db_dump: open: author.db: DB_OLDVERSION: Database requires a version upgrade

3. > db_dump185 author.db
db_dump185: Command not found.

What now? Anybody here can lend a hand?