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......
Category: General
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....
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...
Biblical verses at In-N-Out Burger
From Friday's trip to In-N-Out Burger: The verse is John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. More on the In-N-Out...
Anyone try Avvenu with their Treo?
Avvenu is a program that lets you remotely access files on your Windows PC from your Treo. Anyone try it? These days my PC is running Linux instead of Windows but I suppose if this were good, I could keep Windows running all the...
Converting between Linux package formats with “alien”
So let's say I'm working on my box, which is running Ubuntu, a Debian-based distro, and I come across some nifty piece of software which is available in RPM format, but not in DEB format. What to do? Use a nifty Perl program...