Author Archives: swift
Question yourself v2
A new version of the Quizzer webscript is available. The demo has also been updated with quick tests on the first few chapters of Linux Sea. More exercises on the following chapters will follow soon. Updates to the script include … Continue reading
Question yourself
Do you ever write down things in the hope you never forget them, but still think it would be better if you could somehow take a test of that subject from time to time to make sure you don’t forget? … Continue reading
SAI and N-O-SQL
Yesterday (argh, the day before yesterday) I went to a SAI conference on nosql. In Belgium, SAI is a non-profit organization for IT people which focuses on knowledge sharing. The conference that day was on nosql. The presentation given by … Continue reading
A dozen pages added
Just a quick heads-up that a dozen pages in the Linux Sea book have been added. Nothing spectacular, just a few more paragraphs on services/runlevels, a few updates on software management and on boot failure resolutions.
License support in Gentoo
It’s a bit sad that Gentoo didn’t promote this more, but Gentoo users now have support for license-based masking. What does this mean? Well, previously, Gentoo already supported various masking reasons (like stable versus staging – the x86 versus ~x86 … Continue reading
Executing, but only when you’re home
Sometimes you want to execute a particular command, but only when you’re at home. Examples would be running fetchmail (or fetchnews) through cron, but you don’t want this to run when you’re in the train, connected to the Internet through … Continue reading
Switching to database architecture
It’s finally committed: I’m going to dive into the realms of database architecture. It’s with some sentiment that I’m leaving the expertise field of Apache, J(2)EE and WebSphere, but seeing the database architecture field makes it up well. I’m starting … Continue reading
Translations to “Linux Sea”
A few people have contacted me if they were allowed to translate the online book I’m writing (Linux Sea). Of course they are, the license allows it. However, I recommend to wait a bit. At this moment, I’m not going … Continue reading
Small updates on Linux Sea
A few updates have made it to the Linux Sea book: Information regarding ndiswrapper Some information about udev and the symlinks that it creates The PDF version has been updated as well.
Online image gallery
If you’re not up to the various free image gallery sites, you might want to try out ZenPhoto. Quite powerful, easy to use and well themeable. Requires PHP / MySQL.