MediaWiki on Debian Etch with Templates from Wikipedia
2008-08-12
InfrastructureFor a couple of years now I’ve been maintaining an invite-only-access family history wiki site using the MediaWiki engine (the system built for Wikipedia). It was the last thing left...
Desktop: Particulate
2008-05-13
Graphic design
A multi-desktop wallpaper for four panels. Resolutions mixable.
Office Revamp
2008-04-20
Work
Gear
Over the past 6 weeks or so since I last went to Bangkok, I’ve been making incremental improvements to my home office. While it’s not quite a minimalist desktop it’s...
Converting Repositories from CVS to BZR on Debian Etch
2008-04-15
Software engineeringI’ve been using Bazaar for version control for about 3 months now and it’s been working well, so it’s time to start converting some older modules that are versioned under...
Generate PDF's on Windows with Open-Source
2008-03-27
ToolsPDF conversion software for Windows is one of those categories where there seems to be a million shareware bits of crap out there cluttering up the place. SourceForge saves the...
A New Reason to Love ThinkPad
2008-02-29
GearThe cooling fan in my two-and-a-half year old ThinkPad T42 had started making death rattle type sounds and it was clear it was on the way out. I called the...
Tunneling VMWare Server over SSH with PuTTY
2008-02-06
InfrastructureSSH tunneling is a really neat all-purpose technique for getting TCP/IP traffic securely from you to a remote server.