Back Story Recently, I set up a media wiki installation. The surrounding requirements were such that I was forced to use a Windows 2003 server instead of Linux, which would have been my preference, but hey, when life gives you lemons, turn the lemon into a WAMP stack. And that’s just what I did. The…
In an earlier post, I described how one can go about installing a Belkin USB dongle and a very recent version of Ubuntu on a dinosaur PC. Tonight, I’m going to describe a similar thing, except that instead a new piece of hardware, it’s a dinosaur that came with the PC itself. I must admit,…
One of the things that I take for granted and figured that I probably ought to document is a tool called Synergy (or now, Synergy+, apparently). Found here, this is a tool that is perfect for someone who wants to control multiple computers on a desktop without having to deal with the inconvenience of swapping…
As I’ve previously mentioned, one of the things that I spend a good bit of time doing is home automation. For prototyping, I have a bunch of very old computers that I’ve acquired for free. These are scattered around the house (much to the dismay of anyone with a sense of decor) and I use…
One of my favorite OSS tools is Subversion. I’ve used it a great deal professionally for managing source code, and it’s also the tool of choice for my academic collaborations between students not located on campus (which describes me, since my MS program is an online one). It seems a natural progression from CVS, and…
