Running a Website on a Minimal Server Currently my website is being hosted on a tiny account on A Small Orange servers. It includes 150mb of disk space and 4.5gb of bandwidth.This might not seem like a lot of resources to most people but it is more than enough for many websites. I run many …
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My Notetaking System
Recently I have begun on the noble quest to try to organize my notes. I had never thought about archiving important information in a centralized place until recently. It took me quite awhile to figure out which software did and did not work for me in my pursuit of note taking nirvana. For the last …
Geany Review
In my limited C++ carreer I have been limited to using Windows to write and execute my code. I have now officially gone across platforms to Linux. Why? Because Linux is faster and it doesn’t take five seconds on my netbook to compile “hello world”. Before I could start coding I had to start out …
The Fountain Pen Freak
Currently I am waiting for my new bottle of Noodler’s Eel Blue fountain pen ink. This is the second bottle of ink I will own and I can’t wait to play with some new color! Now Noodler’s Bullletproof Black & Blue Eel will be on my desk. I have to admit being a fountain pen …
The Killer Apps for Blogging
There are many tools that the common blogger relies on each day to write their articles and stay on track. These tools need to be simple enough to be easy to use, but not too simple that they are useless. It definitely takes awhile for each blogger to find their own tools to fit the …
Using Terminal Applications
Linux is known for its ability to be used exclusively through its terminal. Over the years the mainstream populace has started using a command line less and less in favor of GUI programs. The terminal does not exactly invite people to play with it. Many people are turned off by the sparseness of its interface …
You Know You Are A Nerd When…
When you use a non-gui mixed-breed email program. I know I know, I haven’t climbed up the crazy tree yet. I don’t know whether you have heard of Mutt of not. Frankly, I don’t care. Mutt is a highly configurable email client that has been around since 1995 and is still making people ie nerds …
Chess
It has been around for hundreds of years. It is a truly universal game. Chine, Britain, Russia, and even we ”uncivilized” people from America play it. No I am not talking about Soccer and the current World Cup happenings. Well let me start off first with asking you a simple question. What do you think is the …
How To Get Out of WordPress Maitenance Mode
It is a very bad problem if your wordpress update fails if you have wordpress 3.0 installed. Because WordPress automatically puts you blog into “maintenance mode” when you update plugins or your core install and redirects all traffic to a maintenance page you can be easily locked out of your own blog. Luckily if you …