Posted in Code on Mar 5th, 2003
Some screenshots of the latest version of Windows, code named “Longhorn”, have leaked. Some of the screen shots look kinda cool. They actually remind me a lot of KDE (a GUI that runs under Linux). One of the more interesting (albeit mostly useless) features is the ability to restrict guest user log [...]
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Posted in Code on Feb 25th, 2003
The other day I was wonking to Steve about how the tools in windows are mostly useless, especially the stupid Window’s Find feature, which always seems to omit results (which for me is useless). So he recommended that I try Cygwin, an implementation of the BASH Shell that runs under windows. I gotta [...]
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Posted in Code on Feb 24th, 2003
I’ve been spending a good deal of the afternoon immersing myself in A History of Unix.
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Posted in Code on Feb 16th, 2003
I implemented a simple little voting feature in my weblog. Go to the entry entitled “War Protests” and try it out. It even has a primitive scheme for stopping people from voting twice, although I’m sure Steve will be able to figure out what I’m doing pretty quickly, and proceed to vote 50 [...]
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Posted in Code on Feb 8th, 2003
Not many of you will notice, but this weekend I switched the hosting company of Suver.com from Yahoo Web Hosting to Apollo Web Hosting. The DNS entry switched over at about 7:30 pm saturday night. The only major difference for now is the speed that PHP scripts execute against MySQL. On Yahoos! [...]
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Posted in Code on Jan 30th, 2003
For like the last 2 weeks, my blog has been hella slow. I called Yahoo!, and they told me it was “heavy traffic”. What a crock, that’s what I always tell my customers when my software is slow and sucks. But for some reason, I logged in this morning and everything was [...]
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Posted in Code on Jan 14th, 2003
Last night I made some changes to the main page. Instead of hardcoding links, I whipped up some configuration tables in MySQL, and added some php code to build the links from the db. Nice part is, any new pages can have the left toolbar without any extra work, save one function call. [...]
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Posted in Code on Jan 5th, 2003
Finally, the site is coming together. I took some of the layouts from BlueRobot.com, and made some minor modifications. Other than the root page, this weblog, and a small wedding page, there’s not much up there yet. The next step is to start adding some php goodies, start actually using mysql for [...]
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