I just found a site called YouOS.com and I’m blown away. It’s a platform for web application developement that’s hosted online with an online IDE and online execution. All the apps in there run in Javascript with AJAX-like connections to some elaborate database server code. The tutorials on the site are pretty good at getting […]
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I just fixed my laptop’s screen! I noticed that it started up with a pink tint long ago and more recently it started flickering. About a week ago it finally went black. I thought, maybe I’ll just plug it into an external screen and call it a desktop…or I could order a new screen assembly. […]
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Today was a big day for me and Linux. I started the day with a Linux web server with PHP but no MySQL. That’s a LAP server for all you techies. Pretty decent for serving static pages but not too great when it comes to doing anything with data. Never had MySQL working on this […]
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I attended Camp SysAdmin on Saturday in the SOMA area of San Francisco. It was fun listening to and participating in discussions about IT over the two sessions. Each session was an hour long and they were seperated by a pretty decent lunch. The first session I went to was about how to intermingle free(as […]
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Home theater is no longer as plug ‘n play as it used to be. Time was, you could plug the TV into the wall, attach the VCR and you were good to go. Nowadays, there’s TiVo, DVD recorders, Home Theaters in a box, and cable/sattellite set-top boxes not to mention the legacy VCR. Getting all […]
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After I wrote my last article on Cron for Web 2.0, I did a bit more searching and found webcron.org. It’s very close to what I described and in my looking through the site, they apparently have about 10,000 users which is quite something. I figure the market for this is anyone who has a […]
For TST(retired in 2008), I run several processes each hour of the day and I use cron to do it. It’s quite simple when you have linux box running 24/7. All you have to do is type “crontab -e” and enter a line like “01 * * * * /script_folder/script_to_run” then “:wq” to save the […]
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I just acquired a 20gb iPod and decided to set it up in style. That meant I wanted to get my favorite 180 cd’s onto it and be able to use it with my car stereo. I’ve been keeping up with the latest news about the iPod so I knew I could use Winamp to […]
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I was just wandering around Del.icio.us a bit and I’m sure I gave one or more of their servers a workout. I had an idea: who were the first people to bookmark the web’s most popular sites? On a whim, I started with Technorati. I searched del.icio.us for it and clicked on the red “4124 […]
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I’ve found something good. Today, I had the opportunity to use Copilot, Joel on Software’s easy remote control service. It lets one person control another’s computer from anywhere on the planet. The key innovation is that it’s so simple to use. Both the helper and helpee go to copilot.com, one pays and gets a code, […]
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