old stuff from November, 2006

dev server: post-install apache setup

Tuesday, 28 November 2006 1:44 pm by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

now that apache is up and running, i want to set up its working environment. the target is not to have internet access to the server since its for development purposes only; to set the server so that it does not start up automatically when i turn on my workstation; and to put an “on/off [...]

dev server: installing apache

Monday, 27 November 2006 9:49 am by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

my reasons: i wanted to set up a web/php server for use as a local development platform. i got tired of uploading php pages to a test subdirectory in a production server just to see if they would work; and i didn’t want to forget what i did to get things working.
note: the combination of [...]

limp computing

Wednesday, 22 November 2006 8:58 pm by noel
posted in hardware, opinions, software, stuff

i’m limping about. one of my memory modules went south and i’m left with 256 megabytes of memory. i thought to myself that this should be enough for most of the stuff that i do with the computer. i was wrong.
i remember a couple of days ago i finished a complete reinstall of windows on [...]

geek funny

Saturday, 18 November 2006 8:59 am by noel
posted in linux, opinions, stuff

i found this really funny — well, if you’re a geek anyway.
its part of a thread over at slashdot about ballmer (ceo of microsoft) saying that linux users owe microsoft. har har.
liquidcooled: alright, own up. who merged the linux genuine advantage code into the tree? come on, speak up - i know it [...]

curbing brain drain

Sunday, 12 November 2006 1:10 pm by noel
posted in opinions

i was reading this article in the philippine star about asian development bank recommending “taxing brain drain in order to curb the growing problem of losing educated laborers in the country.”
i do not see this recommendation as a positive solution to the problem. i see it as leading to more problems.
what these laborers want is [...]