The rumour of my death has been exaggerated
It has been too long since I last updated my weblog. I run my Radio software on my HP Omnibook laptop. The HD died the second time since I bought this machine two years ago, so I go through one HD each year. I can't say this is good. The thing is, the HDs in my desktop machines aren't doing much better.
Anyway, I bought a cheapo 10G to replace the old 5G. Fortunately, the old 5G failed only partially, and with some mucking around I managed to pull most of the files off it, and the Radio software came back to life on the same laptop, which is nice.
But then when I installed the 10G new HD, I put in two partitions: one for Windows 2000 and another for something else. Mandrake 8.1 came up with minimal fuss, and was in much better shape than the upgraded Mandrake 8.1 on my desktop machine. Sound, X, KDE2/3, network, etc. all worked fine. Couldn't be happier, except I really wanted to put those cool OpenBSD stickers on this laptop, and to do so, I needed to run OpenBSD.
OpenBSD actually installed and ran fine. My two network cards (one 3COM PCMCIA 10/100M ethernet card, and one Buffalo 802.11b WiFi card) came up and were talking to the network with minimal fuss. The problem was with getting X to work. xf86cfg wasn't working anywhere as smoothly as it does on Linux, and I had to edit the X86Config file by hand. Losing text mode after launching X is a long-known yet unfixed problem. Mind you, KDE2 works fine. I didn't spend enough time to get Mozilla to work (the port tree is still only at 0.9.3 and appears to be broken). I want to run my Radio software, and need to test my websites with IE, so am pretty much stuck with running Win2000 on this laptop. Sigh...
I tried before to run Radio on my TiBook. Migration was straightforward, well-documented and problem-free, which is nice, but for some strange reasons response of the Radio outliner was rather poor (unresponsive) compared to my much slower PII laptop. I have therefore given up this idea.
Radio is nice, but lacks some features which I would like, e.g. site-wide search. I am considering whether I should "eat the dog food" (which means a programmer using one's own program) by using WebCM. To be able to do so, I'd have to add a new feature: paragraph objects being displayed in chronological order. Auto-expiration would also be highly desireable. Outputting to a static site is also something nice to have. Hmmm... something to think about in the next couple of weeks.
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