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...except for the work.
I sent off 3,100 words this morning and the rest of the day has been spent smelling burnt electronics and getting ready for Mike and Karen to arrive.
The burnt smell was the result of plugging my router's WAN port into the wrong RJ-45 connector on my cable provider's box - oh, but was that My Bad - and yet, despite it all, my Linksys WRT54G still works after I connected it to the correct port. I shall not press the point as to why this is so - generally, electronic doodads don't have a whole lot of extra parts that can burn up in 'em and still have the doodad retain functionality - I shall merely count my blessings.
The reason I had disconnected and then reconnected my router was to move it from the corner bedroom to the next-to-corner bedroom, so I could connect an older Dell Optiplex something-something-50 (running the latest version of Ubuntu) to my home network to act as a web server. The server works fairly well, which is to say the default "It works!" page shows up almost instantly, though I'm not sure how high response speed will remain if I install something that gets, say, a SQL database into the act.
OTOH, this must might be the thing for me to resurrect a very old Perl script I used back in the day to search through glossaries. It was a clever little program whose purpose was to generate a Web page with a field for input and a "Search" button that, when clicked, grabbed what was input, searched a text file for any lines containing the input, and then spit out the result in the form of a Web page with the results, along with a field for another input and a "Search" button. The world has fled, willy nilly, into the hands of PHP since then, but I can't imagine it being too difficult to "translate" the program from Perl to PHP.
Galina calls. A few more things need to be done before Mike and Karen arrive.
Cheers...
I sent off 3,100 words this morning and the rest of the day has been spent smelling burnt electronics and getting ready for Mike and Karen to arrive.
The burnt smell was the result of plugging my router's WAN port into the wrong RJ-45 connector on my cable provider's box - oh, but was that My Bad - and yet, despite it all, my Linksys WRT54G still works after I connected it to the correct port. I shall not press the point as to why this is so - generally, electronic doodads don't have a whole lot of extra parts that can burn up in 'em and still have the doodad retain functionality - I shall merely count my blessings.
The reason I had disconnected and then reconnected my router was to move it from the corner bedroom to the next-to-corner bedroom, so I could connect an older Dell Optiplex something-something-50 (running the latest version of Ubuntu) to my home network to act as a web server. The server works fairly well, which is to say the default "It works!" page shows up almost instantly, though I'm not sure how high response speed will remain if I install something that gets, say, a SQL database into the act.
OTOH, this must might be the thing for me to resurrect a very old Perl script I used back in the day to search through glossaries. It was a clever little program whose purpose was to generate a Web page with a field for input and a "Search" button that, when clicked, grabbed what was input, searched a text file for any lines containing the input, and then spit out the result in the form of a Web page with the results, along with a field for another input and a "Search" button. The world has fled, willy nilly, into the hands of PHP since then, but I can't imagine it being too difficult to "translate" the program from Perl to PHP.
Galina calls. A few more things need to be done before Mike and Karen arrive.
Cheers...
