Tag: Technology
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Google Earth, for Linux
Well, with Beta 4 of Google Earth, you can now run it on Linux. I’ve just tested it on my Kubuntu box at work (ATI graphics card, ATI driver), and it worked brilliantly. Went hunting for the place I grew up, and managed to find a decent res image at 13°12′11.60″N by 59°33′59.28″W. Where I…
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ADODB, PHP and transactions
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 code I’ve written. Change the driver name, perhaps the connection string, and everything should…
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Cardboard t-shirt folding machine
Ever find yourself folding lots of t-shirts by hand, and wished there was a better way? There is… Courtesy of Boing Boing, I give you a cardboard t-shirt folding machine. I’ll be making one this weekend 🙂
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Slow Konqueror
I’ve been using Kubuntu for a few months now – first on my server after growing tired of Gentoo and compiling to get a program that I needed 10 minutes ago (and my server is no slouch), and then on my work PC (after trying CentOS 4.1 as a desktop OS [nope]). One thing that…
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25% of disk used
At $work, we’ve been running very tight on disk space for a few months now. So tight that we’ve had to regularly drop data out of the tables and store it offline, in the hope that we can restore it later. Luckily it’s only mail transaction logs, but they’re still fairly important. I campaigned via…
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Server upgrades are fun!
Last night I felt a bit bored, so I downloaded Kubuntu (Ubuntu Hoary + KDE). This morning, I archived my 50 GB /home area to my RAID, along with a few odds and sods like my postfix config, various MySQL databases (including wordpress), popped in a CD and booted off of the Kubuntu AMD64 installer…