Yahoo! now offering WordPress
WordPress Matt reports that Yahoo! Web Hosting is now offering WordPress. I knew this was coming and I'm glad to see it live now. Looking forward to seeing some cool Yahoo-related plugins come out of this......
Month: December 2005
Porting Command Line UNIX Tools to Mac OS X
This article is an interesting discussion of how Mac OS X differs from other Unices and what some of the considerations are when porting Unix software to Mac OS X. Some snippets of interest: dlopen, dlsym, dlclose, etc. not...
Playing with Gentoo
Just for the heck of it, I setup a virtual machine with QEMU and installed Gentoo Linux in it. Gentoo is the distro for uberhackers - no fancy installers here; you do all the setup manually and you compile everything yourself...
Installed a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
After buying some thermal paste yesterday afternoon, last night I installed a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz (800 MHz FSB) in my Asus S-presso. I'm hoping that this gives me more cycles to make my virtual machines more responsive....
Folder View: Windows freeware for faster access to folders
From the Folder View web site Folder View is a free (freeware) add-on for Windows that drastically enhances the way you browse the folders on your system. Files are often scattered around many different folders on the harddisk...
What’s up with REQUEST_FILENAME in mod_rewrite?
I was trying to setup mod_rewrite rules for a CakePHP app running under Apache. According to the mod_rewrite docs, REQUEST_FILENAME is "The full local filesystem path to the file or script matching the request." If that were...
Installed 1 GB of Corsair ValueSelect DDR400 RAM
Last night I installed 1 GB of Corsair DDR400 RAM (VS1GBKIT400) in my Asus S-presso machine. I previously had 512 GB of slower RAM so this should provide a nice speed bump. I also have a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz (800 MHz FSB) to install...