September 2009
11 posts
Comparison of PHP wiki software
I wanted to install a simple PHP wiki for my website, so I can create shared content with two of my friend. We are all dislocated, so it has to be on the Internet. I have a hosted website at www.guacosoft.com, so I decided to put it there in a subdirectory. I needed something really simple, using plain text files or a MySQL database. I had some previous experience with DokuWiki, as I set it...
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Taking over expiring domains - part 2
Earlier I wrote about an interesting article regarding takeover of expiring domains. Recently I had a first-hand experience myself:
For about two years we run the website www.firebirdfaq.org. It has become pretty successful if you consider the niche market it covers, that being the users of Firebird DBMS. Ever since the start in 2007. I wanted to somehow get a hold of the .com variant of the...
Subversion and SourceForge.net
Is it just me, or sf.net has decided to take some radical steps:
milanb@kiklop:~/devel/flamerobin-trunk$ svn up svn: This client is too old to work with working copy 'flamerobin'; please get a newer Subversion client
milanb@kiklop:~/devel/flamerobin-trunk$ svn --version svn, version 1.4.6 (r28521) compiled Feb 1 2008, 17:17:53
I find it funny that you cannot use a less-than-2-years-old...
Yahoo Messenger
I really hate companies that simply don’t care about backward compatibilty. Yahoo! is phasing out it’s Messenger while completely disregarding the Linux users. It even offers me to download the new version and then gives .exe file. Not that Linux port of Yahoo! Messenger was really good, I’m using Kopete and Gaim/Pidgin. But getting constant messages that “You are...
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32bit compatibility layer for 64bit Slackware
I’m currently using Slamd64 which has this built in, so I have yet to try it. I hope it’s of good quality and Pat decides to include it in official package
32bit compatibility layer for 64bit Slackware
ftp://anorien.warwick.ac.uk/slamd64/slackware64-current/
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Taking over expiring domains
Few years ago I wanted to take over an existing domain that was to expire soon. I wasn’t looking much for information about the process, but this would have helped me a lot (if the owner did not extend it, that is): Taken from: mikeindustries.com I recently found myself in the position of wanting to register a domain which was owned by someone else. The domain was set to expire in a week,...
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Alt+Tab to desktop
I wonder why no windows manager or desktop environment implements this. I guess they are too busy copying Microsoft Windows to invent anything original. Anyway, the basic idea is that, instead of having a special Show Desktop button, we would always have the Desktop listed when switching windows or running applications. This way you can easily go to Desktop by using keyboard, and not have a...