As some of you may have notice, my blog have change in every way possible. There is a new theme, new logo, new server and web server setup. Now when it comes to the new setup, I am talking about lighttpd with php-cgi. I’ve been testing this option for a bit and seemed the right one to go with. Lighttpd seems to work quite fine and the speed it’s really good, but there are some issues, it’s quite complicated to configure lighttpd. I mean, the style of configuration is a bit odd, but in general if you worked some time with web servers, you will get it, anyway I did.

The new theme, again is also new and it’s called Mystique and seems a very good option at the moment. It uses jQuery, making the theme and in general the blog look and feel nicer. When it comes to the logo, you will notice a mix between “Robin’s logo” (Batman’s right hand) and a normal text, all done in Adobe Photoshop.

Because change was need it, not just for the looks, but also for the speed of the blog, the blog was moved to a more powerful server, which seems to have a bit of more kick in it and handles the requests faster and maybe even better.

The next logical move, would be to switch from the current MySQL server, which is 5.0.x to 5.1.x which suppose to be the production version and I also believe it would work better too. I’m not sure when I will move to the newer MySQL version, but today or tomorrow I will try to build it. This might mean the blog will be down until I will be able to upgrade also the database from the old version to the newer one.

Anywho, I hope that all of you, who do read this blog, or find useful thing in the blog, will find this new updates much more interesting and pleasant. Also today or tomorrow I will release the new kernel packages 2.6.31.5-firebird, which are based on kernel 2.6.31.5.

So tune in tomorrow and check and test the new kernel. Cheers!