No updates since January?! Where the hell have I been? A complete overhaul is in the works. Stay tuned …

New theme. I am also working on a theme to match the forum. Any problems let me know.

Somehow malicious code was injected into the site. Avira AntiVir Guard says it contains recognition pattern of the JS/Dldr.Agent.BJZ Javascript virus. I don’t know how it got there but I am going to do my best to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Please make sure you run your virus scanners to make sure you weren’t infected. One side note though, the virus didn’t get picked up by the scanner under Firefox, only Internet Explorer. I don’t know if this means that Firefox didn’t try to download it or the virus scanner just didn’t notice it.

I have changed the theme of the site to my latest creation called dark5. Let me know what you think.

The phpBB Group finally released phpBB3 Olympus to the masses. I installed it on our server at http://www.zombiefied.net/phpbb/. I also used a converter so that all of our posts and information will be there. Jump on over there and give it a spin, and let me know what you think. I was thinking maybe ditching SMF and going back to phpBB.

I decided to move the forum from zombiefied.net/SMF back to forums.zombiefied.net

I also added a 301 redirect to point all queries made to zombiefied.net/SMF to the new location. That means that you won’t need to update links. The only thing you will have to do is logout and clear your cookies, then log back in.

I decided about a week ago that when the latest release of Ubuntu came out that I would give it a whirl. I have had some experience with Linux in the past so I figured it would be a breeze. On Thursday I downloaded the latest release(7.10 Gutsy Gibbon) but I didn’t have any time to go about installing it. On Saturday I went to burn the image to a cd but it appears my cd burner doesn’t want to read or write anymore. I decided to give Wubi a go. I have heard so great things about it and some not so great things. Wubi creates a file on your Windows partition that will house your Ubuntu install. There are some downfalls such as slower disk speed access and it is very prone to hard reboots.

Overall the install with Wubi went well and soon I was cruising along. Personally I didn’t notice any slower disk speed on my 7200rpm hard drive but I wasn’t using it that long. I figured I might as well download the updates and then upgrade to 7.10(Wubi is still using 7.04 with 7.10 being alpha). This was a big mistake. If I had read the support forum beforehand I would’ve known not to upgrade my install like that. I was left with an unusable system. I decided that since I was going to use LVPM anyway, I might as well just use my disk with 7.04 on it.

To shorten this up a bit, I installed 7.04 and resized my hard drive. This drive was partitioned as NTFS and contained my media (videos, mp3s and all my backup data). The resize and install and upgrade went very smoothly and I was once again dual booting WinXP and Ubuntu.

In the next article I will address issues with Ubuntu, such as the monitor resolutions, package installations, compiz fusion, etc.

Yeah, I got bored, so I started messing around and came up with this theme. Hope you like it.

As you can see I have created a new theme for the site. Its a hell of a lot darker than the last theme and it loads a lot faster than the old one too. Let me know what you think.

We seem to be experiencing technical difficulties.

Update: Everything appears fine now.