I added a new plugin to link my posts to my Tutorials automatically. For example, when I make reference to any of the tutorials in the site, such as computers, hardware, software, operating systems, Internet, routing, Internet Protocol, BGP, Telecommunications, web servers, websites, www etc. they get linked automatically without my lifting a finger. I’ve always wanted this functionality for my tutorials. But the linker plugin only works in the WordPress blog and nowhere else. <sigh> Just have to keep looking around for a solution or else port all the tutorials into WordPress as static pages. Last time I tried that, WordPress blew up. It doesn’t seem to be able to handle 700 static pages, yet.
At least you get to reap the benefit of being able to find my tutorials more easilly when I write about them.
My friends and family think I’m crazy. Someone once said to me:
You don’t get enough donations to pay to operate your site. You pay ten times what you receive in donations to your hosting provider. You spend hours working on this site for absolutely no monetary benefit. People flame you and call you an idiot when they find spelling errors, typos and broken links, yet you’re still working on this site after 12 years? WHY?!?
Because every once in a while, I help someone and that is worth it.
I have a full time job already. I enjoy it most days, but I’ve often wondered if there is another way to make a living. I’ve always dreamed of making a living with this site.
It’s very time consuming to support this site. I have a family and a job and very little time for maintaining this site, as much as I enjoy it. Millions of people have browsed to my site to learn from me, so at least someone finds some value in what I do.
Is there another way to pay for the site and for me to make a living?
“Let’s just hope we don’t have a burnout.” — Han Solo, Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back
Just reconfigured the site to roll out the new blogging software. Took a few minutes to get the links and the CSS lined up and fixed, but it looks pretty good so far. Let me know if you see any problems and add a reply or two to tell me what you think of the website’s new design.
Our new house has CATV and network wiring on the main floor but none of the network wiring is terminated (the previous owners stripped the jacks off the wires for some strange reason). I originally deployed the entire suite of computers to my office. The list includes:
My office is a small 10×12 room with only one A/C vent for cooling. There’s barely enough room for me and the computer gear. As a housewarming present, my Father-in-law purchased and installed a dual fan in the transom above the door to blow out the hot air all that hardware generates, but I can’t close the door or the room gets too warm.
I decided I should move my computer lab from my stuffy office to the freezing, air-conditioned basement. The move would lower my heat load in the office and maybe will moderate the temperature in the basement. One of the first things I needed to do was to get some Category 6 cable pulled into the basement room. My father-in-law has never pulled cable, and was curious and wanted to learn. We got the cable pulled, I showed him how to terminate Cat 6 by putting one end on myself, then I let him terminate the other end. When he finished, we tested the cable and it works perfectly.
Now all I need to do is move the computers.