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PureBasic Declarations Creator
Mar 5th
On my codesite I have uploaded a declarations creator program that I made with/for PureBasic 4.41 (x86). It comes in very handy to me, so I thought I would share.
The source and additional info is listed here on the purebasic forums.
Or, the .zip file of the source is located here.
Note: I updated the source code today (2010.03.09)
New host
Mar 5th
So due to some other reasons, I decided to try out my own host again. This, of course, has nothing to do with the services of Wordpress.com, but rather other external influences. Wordpress always had good reliable service for me.
With my own host I have a little more flexibility and things like that. But anyway, I am trying this out again, so hopefully all will work out well or I’ll be switching back!
I got bored… so: Creating a www server
Mar 3rd
Over the weekend I had some time and then decided to do something I had always wanted to do: create an http server. I was using my desktop, which runs Arch of course, and went through several of these links and set my desktop up with Apache, PHP, and MySQL. Also, I installed vsftp as an FTP server.
I even signed up with DynDNS so that my dynamic IP can be updated to a (sub)domain and etc etc.
Once I had everything set up and working–which turned out to be amazingly simple by the way–…I asked myself “to what end?” You know what, I don’t More >
Some web browser wars, and the US reneges on 'leave Internet alone' policy
Feb 27th
I wrote a little something about browsers not too long ago, but this is in quite a bit more details and compares several different browsers:
Review: Linux browsers, Part 1 – Arora, Chromium, Dillo, Epiphany, Firefox and Galeon. In part 2, we’ll look at HV3, Kazehakaze, Midori, and Opera
Review: Linux browsers, Part 2 – HV3, Kazehakaze, Midori, Opera and compare test results.
I think he has inspired me to try out some of these other browsers(on my laptop, Firefox actually runs fine on my desktop, and I do prefer it…for now)–I am especially interested in Epiphany, Midori and Opera. Firefox just seems like it is More >
Just a few interesting points
Feb 25th
I’m glad I am not the only one that feels this way about Google: Anti-Google Sentiment Reaches a Tipping Point
Since my last topic was backups, and today is Backup Awareness day, here is another post about: http://blog.i-no.de//archives/2010/02/24/index.html#e2010-02-24T20_31_15.txt
This would be interesting to read from the beginning: “Building an all-text Linux workstation”, current part is part 11. I went back to find part 8 and then gave up, part 1 is back in time somewhere!
Making Backups
Feb 22nd
Backups can be very important, no one wants to lose any of their data–especially if it has happened to you before.
I have previously setup my x64 desktop PC with softRAID, so everything I have in my /home folder is mirrored across 2 drives. However, I am not sure if I am overly paranoid, or maybe I just like to be extra secure because now I have implemented an additional backup measure.
It started when I read some of this stuff about backups and solutions, so I decided I should probably do something similar. The one from distrowatch really pushed me a long though, More >
Browsers etc.
Feb 20th
I had used firefox for a long time, and then recently started using chrome / chromium. It is nice in that it is faster, and load times are good. however, it seems that it cannot properly render some sites (they are few, but they are important!). I guess I need to say that IE is just terrible (although it is the best one ever), but really isn’t even an option in my opinion.
With the release of Firefox 3.6, I have moved back to using it… and it is faster than it was before. Not a huge difference, not chrome fast, but faster. Not More >
some stuffs
Feb 19th
FreeBSD and the GPL -interesting article, although it gets a bit long. I liked BSD when I tried it, however I was ust much more comfortable with Linux–if I had used and grown with BSD, I’m sure I could get comfortable with it, too.
Setting up a Linux server on a Windows network – hmmm…
Jolicloud: The Operating System Download for Netbook You’ve Been Looking For – Jolicloud is great! have it on my wife’s eeePC
A bash primer – always good stuf to learn some bash
Intel Wireless pains on a Sony VAIO (mirrorlist snafu part 2)
Feb 15th
As I mentioned in the last post, I re-installed Arch onto my laptop. This went very well, and quickly–everything really fell into place. I was going by the beginner’s guide, as detailed previously, but it was not really needed this time.
Where I left off last time, Xorg was installed and I was about to install Gnome. That went well enough, although I had to re-rank my mirrors and put the most updated first as there was some kind of discrepancy with some that had not been sync’ed in a few days.
I then started having problems with…wireless, of all things. It More >
doh! (mirrorlist snafu)
Feb 12th
So, I’ve been rolling along find with my Arch Linux installs. Well, almost. When I installed the system on my laptop, I had somehow forgotten the root password, but was still able to do everything with sudo.
However, I could not run rankmirrors with sudo, so I figured “hey, I can run rankmirrors on my desktop, and then copy that mirrorlist file over to the laptop”–good idea, right? Yeah…if your laptop and desktop are both the same architecture. My laptop is 32 bit, and my desktop is 64 bit. That did not work out so well, and I realized exactly what I More >
