Daily Diigo Snips and Comments 03/08/2007
Thursday, 8 March 2007 Clay Burell 
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WordPress MU ��� I’m a n00b idiot, please help me. �� WordPress MU Forums Annotated
Oh my goodness. Have I just jumped into the deep end? I predict some serious egg-on-the-face experiences for the next few weeks. Joy. “What doesn’t kill me…” will probably still take years off my life. But the ride will be interesting, in a geeky way. Apache, WebHostManager, cPanel, Virtuozzo. (Man, the “experts” on the WPMU help forum really bash the newbie on this page. Pretty shocking.)
From the WordPress MU forum:
Or you new peeps could jump in the deep end and just admin your own linux server first to learn on the run. There are a few cheap virtual private server deals around, like cheap as in mimimal support and maybe dodgy backup. Go for the ones with cPanel, WebHost and a gui server admin like Virtuozzo.
Depending on your internet background it will probably take at least a month or more fulltime to familiarize yourself and start customizing and installing stuff, and don’t forget to firewall as securely as possible. Any command line skills you have will probably help a lot.
For information just start refining your Google search skills, the internet is literally the most up to date manual on how to do server stuff.
Once you get the hang of all that then Mu should just be a wonderful challenge. I did mention the deep end didn’t I?
Gulliver’s Travels – Google Video
Fantastic: the whole Gulliver’s Travels “kiddie movie” by Max Fleischer. I can embed it instead of ordering it for the library. Of course, schools will still probably want to spend money on a copy for the library. Money that could go towar, I don’t know, a nice microphone? 
Note to English teachers: It’s always fun to show how infantile the pop culture adaptations of Literature to “kiddie culture” are. From DeMille’s The Ten Commandments to Troy, to Aladdin /Arabian Nights and Gulliver, and finally to the animated 1950s version of Animal Farm (rights owned by the CIA, who changed the ending as part of Cold War American propaganda), there’s no surer way to wake students up to the possibility that “everything they know is wrong.” (And that literature isn’t the censored, Bowdlerized pablum we serve to our students out of Puritanical issues or fear of same in parents. Read the real Arabian Nights and you’ll see what I mean. Read the first 20 pages, even. Zipes/Burton translation is quite good.)
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