Another blog, different server.
Well, I’ve decided to install wordpress again, this time on my test Windows 2003 VPS. Sadly it hasn’t lived up to it’s fabulous 5 minute install claim, but I eventually got it running thanks to this useful site: http://www.iisadmin.co.uk/ which contains some useful tips for php and wordpress installation.
What I will say is that attempting to customise wordpress is a breeze, that is if you want to use the already built solutions! Creating your own custom wordpress theme is a complete pain in the backside. So far I’ve managed to rip up the default theme and whip in some css and re arrange some PHP to create what is seen here. At least it now validates against the W3C validators.
Now to see if this VPS if up to the task and finish off my MVC site revamp. It’s nothing exciting, very similar to the theme here with a slightly better cms for me to update the site more often. Hopefully this blog will force me to keep publishing more white noise on to the internet. The only thing now is to see if I can replicate SSH, SFTP and possibly scrreen with irssi. A tall order, but I need something to keep me out of trouble! 
Squash, Screen and Irssi
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009First off,seeing as I am testing out this new VPS to see if it is more suited to my needs. (despite being a complete turncoat and using Windows instead of Linux). I mean to be honest as long as the web server works and I can serve ASP.NET either through IIS or Mod_Mono I am happy. Well I say happy, I don’t enjoy spending endless tweaking of config files to see if changing settings will finally allow the web server to start serving files properly. Platform ambivalent, you could say.
Anyway, I’m currently hunting for a nice replacement to screen on Linux for Windows, as that is one of the main things that I use my VPS for, logging on to the server, bring up the stored screen and use irssi to spread more white noise on to the internet. Anyway, been looking at Cygwin which doesn’t appear to have changed much since I last tried it about 2-3 years ago. So far I have been running a separate SSH Server called freeSSHd and starting a bash shell from there, however putty doesn’t seem to handle this well and the command execution seems particularly slow.
Going to try using just Cygwin for the SSH Daemon and see how the command execution time goes, it might actually work! Anyway, anyone have any suggestions for screen and irssi replacements?
On another note, Played squash with my Boss and co-worker last night, make a complete arse of myself and my left arm has fallen out with me. Still good fun though and now off to be shamed at work.
Tags: Cygwin, Irssi, Linux, Squash, SSH, Windows
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