Saw this on an episode of tekzilla, sorry, forgot which one, but tells you if your website is up or not – BUT does more including a brief analysis of your robots.txt file.. www.ismyblogup.com

I am considering moving my website to a pc that is running Vista 64 bit. So, I did a little research, and the most common method is to disable user access control and then proceed as usual. I am sorry, but this doesn’t sit well with me. So, I thought I would document what I am doing.

First off, I did a very much default install of XAMPP using these instructions http://wiki.fiforms.org/index.php/Installing_XAMPP MySQL seems to be fine, but Apache won’t start. Well, if you look in c:\xampp\apache\logs\error.log, you will see that it couldn’t something something to 0.0.0.0:80…. So, I did a search in c:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf for that, made a copy of that line (make sure you can undo everything you do!), and changed it to 127.0.0.1  I then tried to start it, and it failed, same sort of message, except 0.0.0.0:443…. Well, if you look in the *.conf file, you won’t see it – but you will see it’s loading some “extra” conf files near the end. So, I did a search for ssl, and found where its loading the extra *.conf file for ssl, and commented it out.

(Forgot to mention – during the install, I opted out of IPv6 support. Why? Well, Security Now talked about IPv6, and mentioned that it uses your MAC address as part if it’s “id” string – thus making you completely trackable. Also, I am very sure my wireless hub, etc., doesn’t support it anyway)

Now the XAMPP control panel seems to start Apache and MySQL without issue…. I will keep plugging at it, but seems like disabling user access control is TOO drastic a measure just to get it running. Seems like you would want MORE security on a web server, not less!

Other notes:

http://www.myownserver.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67:installxampp172windows&catid=1

===== WELL, It works!!!!!! You’re looking at this on a Vista 64 machine with User Access Control still enabled !!!!!!

For instance, I cant get the about page to come up. I hope to someday have time to fix it!!!!!

Maybe export all posts, etc., drop the database, and import????

========== Resolved. I installed fresh on a new box, exported from the old, imported to the new.

Testing. Does my twitter link work? Did my wordpress update work?

Moved to a new server,  and had issues… I think we’re all good now

Got twitter going to my facebook and my web site http://www.mmdmurphy.com. Now all I need is something to say!

Trying to allow twitter to update facebook…

http://evernote.com
http://twit.tv/natn98

I installed Evernote on my Blackberry today. Nice interface. Too new to evernote to really address how usable it is.
I will be looking at their tutorals… http://www.evernote.com/about/what_is_en/video/
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Here’s a good summary / tutorial from http://www.themobileclassroom.com

Website names… Thought of the Ian Hunter song.. “All of the good ones are taken”… WELL, http://www.allofthegoodonesaretaken.com is NOT taken!

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Ok, it was bugging me, so I registered it…

This is a pretty cool site. http://namechk.com You go there, put in your online identity – such as bobnewhart, and it will check, um, “the cool” websites and see if that name is registered.

What’s the point? Well, if you use the same nickname on multiple systems, maybe you want to make sure that no one else uses it. So, you then know which sites you aren’t registered on, and off you go to register…

Also, if you are like lots of people, you’ve got accounts you forgot about. So, this will jogg your memory and you will know where you (unless someone else registered your online name) have accounts.

Finally, it’s a pretty darned good listing of the top picks of “web 2.0” websites… you can just click on the name to go to the site instead of having to rack your brain trying to remember those site names…