For those of you keeping score, 0.3.4 was due to release back in February, so, what the hell happened?
Here is the whole pitiful, "woe is me" story. I've been running on dying, antiquated hardware for the longest time. I couldn't run the latest kernel because I couldn't compile it. Anytime the processor pegged out for more than a few minutes the machine would lock up hard and require a reboot. I'd been living with failing hardware for six months because I couldn't afford to upgrade.
Well, finally, I had a hard lock up, rebooted and the machine never came back up.
I spent most of the week before last putting together a new rig and salvaging what I could from the old box. Turns out the power supply was flaky and as a result the motherboard and one of the hard drives died. The new box has "gelled" nicely and I've spent most of last week catching up on the backlog of email.
Luckily, almost everything was backed up anyways, but most of the finishing touches to the next release of Bash Blogger was lost, and a lot of rough drafts for some other projects are gone too.
Okay, bad news over, now for the good part, I'm writing this on the release version of 0.3.4. I have to write a new bblog_setup script and package everything up and the next release is good to go.
I should have the new release up in an hour or so.
Posted by Phil McClure in General on April 07, 2005