old stuff from September, 2006

moving to linux: money benefits

Friday, 8 September 2006 10:24 am by noel
posted in linux, software

there has been a lot of reasons to use linux but the most obvious one is its price — it costs next to nothing or around the price of an ice cold bottle of beer (php 25.00?). i will not go into head to head comparisons regarding features of each operating system or office suite. [...]

5 segment ip address

Friday, 8 September 2006 9:07 am by noel
posted in firewall, internet

i got this strange hit on the firewall. it blocked a 5-segment ip address. normal ip addresses today (ip4) has only 4 segments i.e. 192.168.2.1. the ip6 addressing (5 segments) is not yet in popular use.
either someone out there is using an ip6 address already or the firewall blocked a stupid spoofer/hacker.
har har.

adding a group to samba

Thursday, 7 September 2006 7:53 am by noel
posted in linux

its easy to add users to a file server (samba on clarkconnect) but adding groups is not so easy on a stock configuration unless i add webmin. and in an effort to keep things simple i didn’t add webmin. instead i use the console. the following was taken from one of the threads in the [...]

more widgets

Wednesday, 6 September 2006 1:32 am by noel
posted in software, web development, wordpress

i needed to put some php into the sidebar of one of the blog-turned-into-news site (using wordpress) i am managing parttime. i was already using widgets in that site so editing the sidebar.php will not work. the solution is another widget.
and i found several gems in media projekt — a media company based in germany. [...]

my next computer

Tuesday, 5 September 2006 4:36 pm by noel
posted in hardware, stuff

i’ve decided that it would be best if this post was a moving target. things change quite a bit with technology and some items listed below will definitely change. last update: 16.sept.2006
with intel and amd coming out with dual core processors with the promise of faster processing, lower power consumption and low price, i cannot [...]