For some time I’ve been considering setting up some php development environment. Not that I like php but I want to play with some php stuff nevertheless (e.g. Drupal seems interesting). So I downloaded one of the popular all in one packages that combine apache, mysql and php: xampp. I have actually set up apache, [...]
Also tagged microformats, openid, reviews, webdevelopmentI’ve given up on feisty. I’ve blogged several times now about my failure to install it properly. Today I gave it another try and partially succeeded before failing again.
I read somewhere that you can bypass the scanning the mirrors problem by disconnecting the network cable. You see, running ifdown eth0 is not good enough because [...]
The easterbunny killed my power supply. So, I’m posting this with my phone. I’ll be back once it is fixed.
Also taggedAs you may recall, I had a nice incident recently which made me really appreciate the fact that I was able to restore my data from a backup. Over the years I’ve sort of gobbled together my own backup solution using rsync (I use the cygwin port to windows).
First a little about hardware. Forget about [...]
This morning I had some more fun marking locations in Google Earth. I documented more holidays. Then I managed to lose all my additions by crashing google earth. It reset to the version I saved last evening. It turns out, it doesn’t actually save anything until you exit properly. :-(.
Next time, I’ll be saving and [...]
For a few months I’ve been putting off upgrading my nvidia video card drivers from 80.21 to the 9x.xx because of an issue with tv out. Anyway, there’s a few other bugs in the 80.xx series that have been annoying me and several nice features in the new 9x.xx series so I upgraded anyway.
It seems [...]
I’ve blogged several times already about my problems connecting my pc to the internet:
Getting a cable modem was easy.
I mistakenly bought a Siemens wireless network USB stick. Solution don’t buy crap and use a decent brand. Currently I’m using an smc pci card; my ibm/lenovo’s laptop’s built in network card and my Nokia e70 with [...]
I tried to install some plugins in jEdit, my favourite programming editor (for things other than Java, for that I use eclipse of course). I got some IO errors trying to install some plugins in the plugin manager. Since this has happened before, I looked into it and found a solution to the problem:
go to [...]
Also tagged eclipse, javaLuckily my parents laptop came with a windows xp pro cd and a valid product key. So, after backing up important files using ubuntu, I proceeded to install windows. I had forgotten how annoying installing windows can be.
After having seen ubuntu the experience is, well, extremely user unfriendly and extremely likely to end in disaster [...]
Over the years I’ve encountered, and resolved many annoying software issues with Microsoft. This one surely counts as one of the more annoying ones.
The problem is that my previous PC had a beautiful suspend to ram feature, which basically means that whenever you put the machine in stand by mode the system turns of almost [...]
