First of all, sorry for not posting in a while. Vacation, work stuff, wife surgery, etc. I’ll post the backlogged stuff I have in the admin backend, I promise.

Anyway…

My first upgrade on Ubuntu has gone off without a hitch. I’m continued to be impressed by how well everything works on Ubuntu, after using Windows my entire professional life. I’ve continued to admin a network of 400 machines and 1200 users, and have only needed Windows once, to get a screenshot.

Unbeleivable. Congrats to Mark Shuttleworth and all the Ubuntu dev’s for a fantastic product. I continue to have the hardest time explaining why my IT-based friends should at least give the LiveCD a shot. They don’t know what they’re missing…

I followed some great insrtuctions here. I used the apt-get method, but had to make a few changes, since the ‘sed’ command didn’t work for me… Here’s what I did:

1. Open Terminal
   1. sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
   2. (enter your password)
   3. (sources.list opens)
      1. Click the ‘replace’ button and replace all ‘edgy’ with ‘feisty’ (no quotes)
      2. Save and close
   4. sudo apt-get update
   5. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (say yes to everything)
   6. reboot

done. If you want to test it, you could give the terminal a: sudo lsb_release -a

Hey all,

Sorry about the delay here at GL. What an October! Here’s a summary af what happened here, as well as why GL is just getting back up and running now. I can see that we still have hundreds of visitors still visiting the site regularly, I’ll get to posting some good stuff to you shortly. Drop a comment and let me know you’re still out there, I appreciate all of you!

(Sept 27 – GeekLimit.com goes down hard)

October 2006

Oct 1 – I get back from a long weekend vacation (and 50+ mile bike ride) to find the site is still down
Oct 3 – I still can’t get into the hosting admin panel, tech support says the server is fine

Oct 4 – Home inspection, refi

Oct 5-9 I’m busy preparing for a conference I’m speaking at on the 10th

Oct 12-15 Working on final projects for 2 of my grad school courses

Oct 16-19 Taking final exams for grad school classes

Oct 20 Troubles with home refinancing, poor estimate of home’s value

Oct 22 Grandma is admitted to Critical Care Unit, obstructions and heart issues

Oct 23-28 spending spare time at hospital, obstructions OK, heart worsening

Oct 29-31 Gma admitted to ICU, heart issues worse still

Oct 31 Start new semester of grad school

Nov 1 Gma heart problems significantly better, regular beat pattern, breathing much less labored, high spirits

Nov 2 I realize that GL has been down for almost a month, and get some time to address the issues. Hosting is OK, but bad plugin preventing page load. Reinstall wordpress and ystematically disable 40+ plugins one at a time, find the culprit. Found a new theme and moved upload folder to new install.

Nov 3 Back in business!

Ever have those months where you wonder where the time goes? That was October for me. I feel completely drained by everything that went on, but can’t really point out any real accomplishments for all that work. It might be a little depressing, if November wasn’t looking so good!

Stay warm everybody, and let me know you’re still here!

You’ve probably noticed GL looks a little different. We figured it was time to have a site that looks as good as the content, er, reads.

This theme is K2 beta two r167. K2 is a theme that is style-enabled, which basically means that people make plugins for the theme that have images, icons, stylesheet spec’s, etc. We’re using a style made for K2 called True Blue from Stevelam.org. The thing I like about the trueblue theme is that the guy offers photoshop files for most of the major images in the style, which is allowing me to easily modify the style.

For example, we’ve already modified the tabs across the top to give it a little more transparency. While I was at it, I modified out Post Teaser plugin to give reading stats when you mouseover the ‘read more…’ link. Try it out! Hopefully people will notice that we’re still offering this information…I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out how to make the ‘title’ tag on the link pop up immediately under all browsers…

In addition, AtariBoy and I have been working on some header images. Let us know what you think, and if you have any better ideas, feel free to submit one. (750×150, I’ll take care of the black shading across the top). We’ll even do a post on you/your blog if you come up with something that knocks our socks off.

edit: moved the header search to the forums

Hey all, a big thanks from all of the authors here for making this site such a success – we're glad to have you here, and glad we can continue to provide the unique and original content we're becoming known for.

Here are some stats from our first month online, and in celebration of this milestone, I'm pleased to announce that we've opened up the GeekLimit Forum .

Thanks again for being part of our community!

GeekLimit Stats – Month One

Site Visits: 60,857

Pageviews: 98,535

Avg. Visits per Day: 2028

Avg. Pageviews per Day: 3284

Avg. Pageviews per visit: 1.62

Most Popular Posts

1. Viewing hidden comments on Myspace
2. I drive an 80mph, 166mpg SUV
3. Embed YouTube using the WP2 WYSIWYG Editor
4. SUSE 10.1 Final Version Officially Available for Download
5. How to get a sub-$1000 high-end gaming rig

Top Incoming Searches

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Top (Non-Search Engine) Referrers

1. http://atariboy.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/viewi
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7. http://atariboy.wordpress.com/tag/myspace/
8. http://www.webforum.nu/showthread.php?t=130565
9. http://digg.com/technology/I_drive_a_$30K,_80m
10. http://www.songbirdnest.com/news

Visitor Stats

GeekLimit needs its own logo, something to remember it by, to put on t-shirts and stickers, a pictorial summary of everything we stand for.

Tao came up with a little logo the other day and it inspired a few more:

I made this one, clean and simple although the 3 buttons is a bit old. 

This one was created by Dailyinvention

Although not offically announced yet, there may very well be a GeekLimit Logo/theme competition coming soon, so find your ISOs for Photoshop CS and get cracking!

The Technocrat says:

heheheh (click to enlarge)

Atariboy and I tested out a groupware collaboration tool, and it worked pretty well.

I was wondering of all you PHP/WP Template coders out there would like to get together and work on a WordPress template together. I figure if we can get 2 dozen (or more) people simultaneously working on the 10 files or so of a wordpress template, we could come up with a pretty good one in a short amount of time (I'm thinking a half hour or so). We'd just have to remember not to get too spastic and type over each other…*cough*atariboy*cough*

Time zones would be a little hard to overcome, but since 95% of our readership is in the US/UK, we might have to plan for a weekend (Sunday afternoon is my vote). The tool works very well, and I can arrange to have it on its own server/T1 for the night if we need to, so don't worry about that. If enough people are interested, I'll put out another poll as to what time of day (based on US Eastern time or something), and what existing template we might start with, if any. Please let us know if you're interested.

The template would be available for download and usage by anyone, of course. Anyone who is involved would be welcome to put a single line of commented-out text at the top of whatever file they improve upon…but we can't make 20MB of comments, so we'll have to limit it at one line, maybe 20 char or so…

OK, so I've been fighting to find a certain something that will really identify GeekLimit to the blogosphere.  BoingBoing has its jackhammer girl, del.icio.us has its boxes, flickr has its pink 'r', etc..  I made a prototype logo (seen here), but it's relatively uninspired.  I'm still working on logos, T-shirts, etc.

However, while browsing the popular links over at del.icio.us, I can say with absolute certainty that GeekLimit now officially has a theme song.  The masterpiece?  Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton.

Congrats Jonathan on a very well-done, Geekery-inspired tune.

How about you other Geeks? Stumbled across any real-world/geek culture mashups or original works like 'Code Monkey'?  Let's hear ya.

Well it's been a fantastic week, and the authors here have exceeded my own thoughts at how well a start-from-scratch team blog could do.  In our first 7 days online, GeekLimit.com managed to pull in 15,000 visitors who performed 25,000 page views!

Thank You!

I've been poking through the admin panel of the site, and see many, many great stories coming up that I'm sure will really knock you guys out.  Week 2 is going to be even better,  In addition, we've got two new authors coming in, one with some coding-specific posts, and a *gasp* girl gamer who is currently active with pretty much every console ever made, in additon to gaming elsewhere.

Thank you again for your readership, and we are looking forward to really knockin' your socks off this next week, and the months ahead.

Please have your submissions emailed in by 6 pm (US-central) today. (6 hours from the time of this posting)

Submissions will be posted for voting tomorrow.  To the best Geek go the spoils!

I thought i’d just take the chance to say a little bit about what I’m aiming for with my posts on The ‘Limit.

I’m a Windows user, and a PC Gamer at heart. I’ve built up my own computer and upgraded/improved it over the past 4 years, I do a bit overclocking and benchmarking every so often. I’m also a keen software developer, mainly in C# but i also know a fair bit of C/C++ too, as well as playing with web programming in ASP .Net and XHTML/CSS.

I feel that i still have so much to learn in the world of computers, and in a sense, so much to catch up on as well. I missed out on a lot of older technologies and big things in the geek community before i got heavily into computing and everyday i learn something more.

I’m pretty handy when it comes to everything windows, so I figure I’ll stick to that. Tips and tricks on getting your system running faster and better, guides to installing and using some of the more complex software and hardware available to the Hardcore geek and news and reviews of hot new software too, especially free stuff, infact here is a list of some of my favourite free bits of software:

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