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[Announcement] Welcome to Our New Home

Contributed by Dengue on from the moving-day dept.

We are now running on our new dedicated server, at our new hosting provider, The New York Internet Company . Yeah, shoot me. No announcement, no warning just a vicious chop straight to the medula and an annoying "We've moved!" page.

DNS was switched at Sun Apr 13 19:16:34 EDT 2003 and will take some time to catch up with everyone. Of course, you know this, since you wouldn't be reading this otherwise.

At any rate, I am pleased with nyi, we are using their dedicated server solution, and it really couldn't have been easier. They provisioned a box for us running -STABLE in less than 24 hours. Impressive.

Future changes ( Oh, and in the middle of this, I am buying a new house and a new car, so my time is looking pretty anorexic ) involve migrating the site to Scoop and freshening things up a bit. I am accepting offers for original artwork and a perl guru to convert the database dump from phpslash to scoop.

Any takers?

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  1. By Anonymous Coward () on


    dude, if you'd told me, i would've come over and helped you move... buy me some beer and i'll move furniture, boxes, etc all day long.

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    1. By dengue () dengue [ at ] deadly [ dot ] org on mailto:dengue [ at ] deadly [ dot ] org

      But I haven't moved yet .

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      1. By Gimlet () on

        Nothing wrong with getting a head start on the beer...makes moving day go by soooo much more quickly...

  2. By Anonymous Coward () on

    grats on the move.

  3. By jose () on http://monkey.org/~jose/

    hewwo, i'm homestarrunnaw.

    seriously ... i fixed up the rss generation, it should be a lot more content rich now. i'll look at an rss 2.0/rdf feed soon, it gives more control over the content you can throw in there and how you can ultimately parse it. lemme know if you find any problems, i've validated it for now (but i can always make a mistake in a title or something).

    jim++ for the big, painless move.

  4. By Anonymous Coward () on

    Are the ads new, or was I just really blind before?

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    1. By Anonymous Coward () on

      they look ugly

    2. By Anonymous Coward () on

      filters out all the adds - works great

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      1. By Anonymous Coward () on

        Phoenix does too. I love Phoenix. I hear it runs on OpenBSD too, which is outstanding. I need to look into that.

  5. By Anonymous Coward () on

    What's the official hostname for this website? I always use deadly.org, but I know www.deadly.org and openbsdjournal.com all come here. What's the preferred hostname? Not that it matters, I was just curious.

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    1. By Rob Funk () rfunk@funknet.net on mailto:rfunk@funknet.net

      I had thought that deadly.org was official, but when I tried that just now it took me to the openbsd.org page. www.deadly.org got me to the "we've moved" page.

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      1. By dengue () dengue a deadly d org on mailto:dengue a deadly d org

        DNS hasn't updated everywhere yet. Give it a few days. BTW, www.deadly.org is probably the preferred hostname.

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        1. By Anonymous Coward () on

          Usually when a site is moved, the TTL is dropped down into the minutes range. That way most decent DNS servers will pick up the changes very quickly. None of this waiting a few days bs.

  6. By Anonymous Coward () on

    what was wrong with Hurricane Electric? I thought it was free?

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    1. By dengue () dengue a deadly d org on mailto:dengue a deadly d org

      Nothing was wrong with Hurricane Electric at all. I just figured it was time for a change. I don't want to mooch too heavily for too long.

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      1. By Gimlet () on

        Okay, stoopid question. Does NYI do PHP in their standard hosting? And, do you get bonus karma if we refer you or something if one of us signs up?

  7. By Anonymous Coward () on

    I'm actually happy though with PHPslash, besides, with this layout, i'm already get used to it, and i'm pretty sure that's quite good enough.

    just my 2 cents

  8. By Roj () 4cmf4 atta 4pobox4 dotta 4com4 on mailto:4cmf4 atta 4pobox4 dotta 4com4

    Have you considered using Drupal (http://www.drupal.org)? It's presently used on sites such as KernelTrap (http://www.kerneltrap.org) and Drop.Org (http://www.drop.org). I've found it fairly powerful, easy to configure, and runs on OpenBSD.

    It's PHP-based and will talk to MySQL and PostgreSQL (although you need to do a little tweaking to get PostgreSQL to work).

    Just a suggestion...

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    1. By Anonymous Coward () on

      2nd this -

      Drupal also supports a book feature that u could implement

      Comments
      1. By Anonymous Coward () on

        www.drupal.org

        started orignally by www.drop.org

  9. By Anonymous Coward () on

    Dude, your domain deadly.org points to openbsd.org

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward () on

      i noticed this as well..it drove my crazy all day with no deadly :( hehe

    2. By Anonymous Coward () on

      naw its just a mirror page. an outdated one at that.

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