Monthly Archives: April 2004

Teach Yourself … in 24 hours :)

Nice review of Linux Programming By Example on slashdot today. The book goes through the source of the Unix V7 code for the ls program. The second part then delves into processes, etc. I have a similar book at home, … Continue reading

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Debian Unstable -> Testing -> Stable

Had a great day today. Fixed a major networking-related issue at work which prevented us from accessing some site. I was really pleased I finally fixed that. I’ve also been using Netbeans for some time now and the latest 3.6 … Continue reading

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Bizarre …

Something really really bizarre just happened today with apache on my web server. When I posted to my blog with NetNewsWire, only half the entries appeared and then stuff started randomly disappearing. So I just did a *huge* dist-upgrade and … Continue reading

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Linux rocks on PPC

Instead of trying to painfully compile GNOME 2.6 on the poor laptop, I very unwillingly decided that I should install linux on a separate partition on my mac and dual-boot between OS X and Linux. I installed Yellow Dog on … Continue reading

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Laptop Hell

I need to get a new laptop badly as my current one is way overdue for an upgrade. It’s more than 3 years old now and I keep trying to put new linux distros on it by mistake I loaded … Continue reading

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