Alright so you already saw my previous post saying that I got moved to a new file server. I have been informed that I’ve been moved to the pincher file server, woohoo! 
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After waiting a long 5 months for DreamHost to straighten out the problems with my slow site I decided to file a support ticket. The reason I hadn’t done so before was because I know that they’re up and down sometimes, they even have a site devoted to that called DreamHost Status. and because I’m a loyal DreamHost customer and have been for 2 years I decided I would give them some time to fix their problems. A couple months went by, like 2 or 3, and I was beginning to get frustrated. The problems weren’t that bad back then, my site was slow but it would eventually load, and it wasn’t all the time. I figured that with this type of inconsistent problem, if I had filed a support ticket then, my problem would easily be dismissed as a problem on my end, either with my connection or with my site’s code. I was positive this wasn’t the problem though because before, my site loaded near instantly. In fact I began to notice my blaenkdenum.com sites were slower after, well, I got that domain name and hosted them with DreamHost. I was assigned to the rizzo file server, which I didn’t know at the time, and since then I’ve been experiencing problems.
Recently, the last 2 months or so my site, if you hadn’t noticed, has been nearly inaccessible. At times it would literally take 4 minutes before it even began rendering. For this reason I was thinking it might have to do with the domain name, but I eventually dismissed that theory since I have the domain registered with DreamHost themselves. I eventually got really pissed off because my site was completely inaccessible and I decided to file a support ticket. The first guy took the easy way out and blamed it on the SQL server. Obviously I got even more pissed off but coincidentally an hour after that, my site seemed faster. That was when I posted the “Site is Loading Faster Than Ever” post which apparently was short lived.
Fortunately a nice person at DreamHost, Brian, was kind enough to reply despite having no obligation to as far as I can tell to tell me that the problems were actually caused with the file server and said that they were currently being fixed but that he was also looking to move me away from that file server. He also gave me information on what cluster I’m on, mail server, SQL server, web server, and dataglob, as it all seemed really confusing to me.
So now I’m on a new file server and everything seems faster than ever, nice and smooth. I hope it stays this way for a long time if not forever, and I hope I have a nicer experience on this file server than the other, and already it’s proving to be true. 
I didn’t notice that when I upgraded to WordPress 2.5, WP-Print broke. After googling, I discovered that the author knew about this and has uploaded some temporary fixes. Everything should be fine now, other than the fact that right my site is painfully slow for some reason. I’m on shared hosting, some noob probably torrenting or something haha. Sorry about it.
Alright, after a long while I finally was able to get LaTeX support in this site. Two plugins made it somewhat easy: WP-Latex and its dependency, fauxML. I now just needed latex itself and dvipng. However, I couldn’t get past the configure script because it was complaining about a missing dependency, libkpathsea. After some searching, I wasn’t able to find anything but binary packages for it. I finally found teTeX, whatever the heck it is, it included dvipng and libkpathsea. The ./configure took ages, and the actual compiling took even longer, but in the end I was left with a nice little dvipng binary.
I then hurried to WP-Latex’ settings page, and filled in the paths to the binaries. That same page tries to execute a command to test if everything is working fine, but it kept throwing an exit code 1 though, and after man‘ing the dvipng binary, I realized that one of the parameters to it that the plugin was giving it, –halt-on-error, wasn’t even in there. So I went to automattic-latex.php and in line 171 removed it from the command string. I then refreshed the page and everything seemed to be working fine.
Some might wonder why I went through all this trouble, but I don’t know, I just really like how math formulas look in LaTeX, and I just kinda like the idea of being able to do it whenever I’d feel like doing it. To make sure this is working:
