MediaWiki on Debian Etch with Templates from Wikipedia
Home, Elsternwick, Australia, 2008-08-12 15:58 +1000
For 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 on my creaking old RedHat 7 box, until recently when I finally sat down and figured out how to move it to my VMWare Server based Debian virtual server farm.
New Soundequip Website
Home, Elsternwick, Australia, 2008-05-19 17:59 +1000
The new look soundequip.com.au
Desktop: Particulate
Home, Elsternwick, Australia, 2008-05-13 23:37 +1000
A multi-desktop wallpaper for four panels. Resolutions mixable.
Office Revamp
Home, Elsternwick, Australia, 2008-04-20 23:58 +1000
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 cut down to just what I need, plus a couple of zen plants.
Converting Repositories from CVS to BZR on Debian Etch
Home, Elsternwick, Australia, 2008-04-15 22:14 +1000
I’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 CVS to BZR.
Generate PDF's on Windows with Open-Source
Home, Elsternwick, Australia, 2008-03-27 13:00 +1000
PDF 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 day again: if PDF conversion is something you need, I highly recommend PDFCreator. It is:
Domain Name Tracking
Home, Elsternwick, Australia, 2008-03-18 13:39 +1000
I’ve been registering a few domain names lately.
A New Reason to Love ThinkPad
Home, Elsternwick, Australia, 2008-02-29 14:17 +1000
The 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 local service number to arrange to get it repaired under warranty. The process went something like this:
Tunneling VMWare Server over SSH with PuTTY
Au Bon Pan at Bumrungrad International Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, 2008-02-06 13:44 +0700
SSH tunneling is a really neat all-purpose technique for getting TCP/IP traffic securely from you to a remote server.