With the help of a friend of mine, my blog is up and running again.
Thanks Dave.
I had tried on several occasions to get it going again but, it was more than I was able to work out on my own.
The reason the blog (among other things) ceased to operate in the first place is due to the fact that my hardware was old and the motherboard decided to spit the dummy. I used an even older (good enough though) motherboard to get the system working again. And found out that the libraries for python, perl, php (and who knows what else) no longer existed.
The operating system (F)edora (C)ore 5 still ran (mostly) but I couldn’t get either yum or rpm to work. I suppose I could’ve gotten around the yum/rpm problem with the install cd, had I thought of it and been able to find it.
To make things even more interesting - After upgrading the hardware (somewhat), I also changed from FC/Redhat to Ubuntu/Debian (which, for those of you who are only aware of MS Virusware Windows, are both variations of Linux - look it up with your favourite search engine), just because they are both linux, don’t be fooled into thinking they are the same. They are not! Files (configuration or otherwise) for any given program that exist in one version/flavour of linux may not exist at all in the other, nor will they necesarily contain the same data or be in the same folder structure.
The best (though simplistic) analogy I can think of for the different flavours of linux is: English. For example: American English and Australian English - as taught in school (ignoring the dialects and slang), is essentially the same. While the basic pronunciation/meaning of some/many words is the same, clearly the spelling (ie: colour/color) in the two versions of the language is different.
When you’ve spent years using one form of the Operating System (or language) and you change to the other, it takes time to get used to the differences.




