First, I thought I'd let you all know that we've switched to a new URL. The Trinity URL took too long for me to keep typing, so we're now over at www.debiantips.com. There's not much you need to do; the RSS feed and everything will stay the same. If you book marked any links, don't worry, they'll all redirect.

But, because I changed the URL to the RSS feed for Feedburner, it reloaded all the RSS items, so sorry if you have to mark them all as read again!

To be a little on topic; I've just added www.debiantips.com to the ServerAlias for the old site, so it's exactly the same.

Note: At the moment, FCKEditior that I use as my rich text editor seems to like to rewrite the URLs I give it however it wants to. As a result, the /blog/ part of the URL is missed off a couple links so instead of going to http://trinity.allroundnews.co.uk/blog/2008/02/13/Debian-cheat-sheet/  you end up going to http://trinity.allroundnews.co.uk/2008/02/13/Debian-cheat-sheet/ which obviously isn't this blog. Fortunately though, I don't have any /2008/ directories (or any others for that fact), so I've set up a rewrite rule to fix it for the moment. That doesn't mean much to you guys though, since you won't see a difference.

I wanted to come and let you know about the various URL structures you can have with this blog (and indeed any other blog that happens to be running AyTwo successfully – which is none at the moment).

First is the standard URL which is /blog/; that gets you to the landing page for this blog. On it you'll see all the most recent posts that have been made, just like you'd expect.

The next type of URL you'll be using a lot is that which goes to an individual post, like this: /blog/2008/02/15/Use-WinSCP-for-file-transfer-not-FTP/. Obviously, it's made up of the title of the post, in a URL safe fashion, along with the date that it was posted in a /YYYY/MM/DD format.

You can also just get rid of the post title, and you'll see all the post that happened on the 15^th February, 2008. Get rid of the day and you'll see all the posts that occurred in that month. And the same with the year, shockingly.

A different format of URL is the way we look at tags. The date mode and tags mode can't be mixed up yet, so don't try it. Bad things will happen, in the same way as bad things happen to you if you google Google and break the internet. The tags format is simple: /blog/tags;Windows-applications/. Just the word tags; followed by the tags you like. (I decided to use semi-colon because Windows machines break if you use a colon.) You can comma separate (no space though) different tags if you like. For instance, if you want to see all the entries about commands and terminology, you'd use the URL like this: /blog/tags;Commands,Terminology/.

Last for the moment, is the skip URL. Add /skip;10/ to any URL if you want to skip the first ten entries. This can be used with the other URL formats.

Just as a heads up, you can now comment on posts here! If you think I've done or said something wrong, then please let me know so I'm not giving bad advice to people. If there's anything you need help on, comment and I'll do my best to try and answer your question in the rest of the comments, or I'll write a post addressing it.

Also, we now have an RSS feed, so sign up to that too.

ETA: I just noticed a bug with the URL that goes with your username. Don't worry, I'll fix it soon and I'll make sure that you still get your link back.

If any of you are running any kind of XHTML checking on this site, let me tell you that every tag I write is 100% standard compliant. Blame the adverts for the errors. I'll shoot them an email and see if they can fix them :)

I thought I should talk about the stability of this site, just so you know when it inevitably goes down.

The first reason it could go down is because I've messed up something with Debian. It's highly likely since I spend most my time poking around files that ought not be poked. In fact, I'd be quite happy if that happened because then I could fix it and it'd give me more to blog about (when I have it back up).

Second is because I'm using a blogging software I've made myself. That in itself screams trouble but I have trust in myself. The software is called AyTwo, and isn't out to the public just yet (if at all, I haven't decided yet) because, to be honest, it's not finished yet. For all intents and purposes it works, but I'm fairly sure there are still a few bugs. If you find any, let me know; shamess+trinity1@gmail.com.

It's also missing a lot of features you'd expect that I'm hoping to get out soon. Things like commenting and feeds. General public can't register (nor log in) so don't email me begging, there's really nothing interesting once you've logged in anyway. At least not yet.

In the event that something awful does happen, I'll most likely have a recent backup and everything'll be up before too long.

When you start up a new site it's always best to start out with some objectives about what you actually want to do with it. Many projects have failed because they lacked direction or just tried to fit in with too many niches and achieve too much. So, before I start filling this blog up with content that has no point or purpose, let me tell you what it's for.

Basically, this is more of a personal site, for me. I want to use it to record everything I've done with my new and shiny virtual server. First, because I've never used Debian before and there's a large likelihood that I'll do something stupid (don't worry, I've already heard about rm –rf) and break the entire thing and have to start again. When I do, at least I'll have this site to tell me what I did so I can get it back to a usable state.

Second, as I've been looking around the internet for help with certain things, I've come across hundreds of sites which is a little annoying. Shouldn't there be just one site that tells me all that I need to know about Debian? I'm hoping I can use this site to compile those websites so I can find them in the future.

Since most the stuff I'll be posting shall be public, there's no reason why you guys can't benefit from my lessons either. You might be at the same stage as me – bored of the limitations of your share hosting, and feel like you can handle managing your own server – so you'll need to learn the same as me too, I guess.

Oh, and of course there's the advertising revenue I can make off a Unix site.