ewindisch on June 6th, 2007

Dear LazyWeb, with what should I replace wordpress? This blog is using wordpress. However, for reasons both technical and political, I would like to move this blog to another application. I’m just not sure what. I’m looking for something fast and easy to setup, I don’t have time to invest in setting up something really [...]

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ewindisch on June 6th, 2007

GrokThis.net VPS accounts now support both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. New customers, or those looking to reinstall, now have the option of choosing a 32-bit installation. However, we still recommend customers choose 64-bit operating systems whenever possible. Our new 32-bit systems will employ the use of a wrapper program to override the necessary function(s) [...]

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ewindisch on June 1st, 2007

I’ve released a copy of Yabus 2.0.1, which added experimental support for locating, mounting, and making backups of content stored within VMware disks on your LVM logical volumes. This is experimental because I haven’t at all tested this script, but I suspect it works ;-) Patches welcome. To use, you should create LVM LogicalVolumes onto [...]

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ewindisch on May 26th, 2007

I’ve finally gotten my cellular internet connection, “BlueConnect” from Era.pl, working on Linux.. not that I spent that much time on it, but it wasn’t a “5 minutes and done” like in Windows… or at last, to my own fault, it wasn’t.. In the end, it turned out to be as simple as inserting the [...]

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ewindisch on May 23rd, 2007

It seems I won’t be seeing the Lost season finale, at least not on my Linux machines… unless I turn back time or find it on BitTorrent.  Today, of all days, it appears that ABC has disabled their “original player” that had been working fine on Linux.  A month or so ago, ABC revealed a [...]

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