]> http://www.crateralumni.com/taxonomy/term/12/0 Posting any news or announcements related to Crater Alumni<br /> en http://www.crateralumni.com/node/72 <p>Well, after the site being down for a couple of days, it's back online again.&nbsp; The trouble with running an experiment like this website, is you get in over your head such that, when something breaks, you don't know how to fix it!&nbsp; When the sessions table crashed and I couldn't repair, it took me a couple days to figure it out--in between long stints of having to do &quot;real work&quot;.The journey continues...</p> News and Announcements Thu, 25 May 2006 20:10:20 -0700 http://www.crateralumni.com/node/66 <p>After creating a first instance of CraterAlumni.com using CivicSpace 0.8.2 (based on Drupal), I moved that instance aside and started over with CS 0.8.3.&nbsp; For those of you not familiar with CivicSpace or Drupal, Drupal is an open source content management systems, sometimes also referred to as opensource CMS.&nbsp; </p><p>Open source means that all of the technology behind this thing is freely available to anyone daring (or gullible) enough to try it out.&nbsp; In this case, this website fits into a category somtimes called &quot;LAMP&quot;, which means that it runs on <u><strong>L</strong></u>ynux operating system, using the <u><strong>A</strong></u>pache webserver, <u><strong>M</strong></u>ySQL database server and <u><strong>P</strong></u>HP website code.&nbsp; </p> News and Announcements Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:02:34 -0700