I ran into an interesting glitch (and that’s not for lack of a better term) in the ADODB library for PHP today. ADODB is a DB abstraction layer, allowing me to change the underlying DB engine without caring (much) about
The ongoing DSL saga
Well, the DSL saga continues. The call has been escalated by my ISP to BT, and BT have called me for details. This evening, I ran a fresh connection for the DSL modem from the back of the master socket.
From Netware to Microsoft
Years ago (heh), I worked for a .edu in the USA, same place I got my BS degree. At the time, my boss preferred Microsoft to the campus choice of Novell’s Netware. We had the odd stealth Linux server, and
EVE and Xinerama
One problem with Xinerama and Cedega – the EVE window showed up right in the middle of the two screens. KDE’s force window positioning to the rescue!
Moving the server around
Well, I woke up at 5 A.M. today – this tends to happen as the days get longer, I wake up when it gets light (so you can imagine what winter is like for me). Decided I was tired of