The nginx build in the official ubuntu package repository is somewhat out-of-date, so I built my own package from source using 0.7.59. I'm going to provide it here in case anyone else would like it. One of the new features I like is the try_files directive. Here's an example of what I'm doing using 0.6.35, the full post is here http://lithostech.com/lighten-apaches-load-nginx:

Since 2008, Debian has had a movabletype-opensource package available in the repository. That's good news for people who like to make short work of system administration. Unfortunately, the package in the repository isn't the very latest and greatest.

After upgrading to Intrepid Ibex Alpha 5, I was presented with a familiar problem. I knew I had dealt with this at least a half-dozen times in the past, but I never seem to learn. It all happened when I tried to import a project I'd started from my subversion repository into eclipse on my laptop. I began to get very strange un-googlable Java errors that I knew I'd seen before. Here's two of them:

At about this time semi-annually, I can no longer hold myself back from upgrading to the next version of Ubuntu; and usually I am quite sorry I did just because of the nature of alpha software. The transition from edgy to feisty, feisty to gutsy, and from gutsy to hardy was a little painful at the alpha stage because the new network-manager applet was in its early stages. Each of those upgrades caused problems with my internet activity which made it difficult to access the internet and hence report bugs.

This time around my wireless internet connections are stable and we're still only in alpha 4, plus the automated bug reporting system is much better tuned. We're starting to see a much more mature product emerge after all this time. Looking at the upcoming features, you'll see things like "encrypted private directories", "3g support", and a new "guest account".

I couldn't resist making a nice big desktop wallpaper for my dual monitor setup out of the cool new hardy heron ubuntu artwork. I found the vector graphic file to work with, and simply widened it up and moved the heron further to the right using Inkscape. I exported the bitmap and touched it up a bit in the GIMP, and I'm posting it here to save others the 15 minutes I took to do it.