A fire at the OVH data center in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday, wiped out a number of popular websites, including all of my own sites and services. Businesses such as WP Rocket, Imagify, and the survival game Rust, went down as well. Luckily, I had backups of most of my data, as well as the […]
Swype doesn’t quite work with Gingerbread (Android 2.3.2) on Galaxy S GT-I9000 due to a small, silly bug. If you attempt to select Swype as the input method, it gives the following error: The Swype package you installed is configured for another device and will operate with limited functionality. Please contact Swype about this issue. […]
My Samsung Galaxy S is doing relatively well. I’ve found some amazing apps for it and it is both productive and fun, though it is probably in for another update. Like I said, I wasn’t planning on doing anything funky with it at first, but Sohaib convinced me to work on it to get the […]
I’m writing this from my new Samsung Galaxy S, my first ever Android phone. I was considering buying the Tab instead, but lots of bad reviews put me off it (size is not much of an issue, especially if you use it with a Bluetooth device). It took a lot of sweat and tears, but […]
I just spent so much time and effort upgrading to WordPress 3.0, instead of blogging about all the important topics I had in mind (except this one off course). How geeky is that? Anyway, the interface looks a little slicker, and there must be some hidden features I’ve yet to try out, but there’s nothing […]
It’s finally here. Tux’s 18th birthday. It was 18 years ago today, 26th August, that Linux Torvalds unleashed Linux upon the world via this message: Hello to all those using Minix. I am creating an operating system (free) (for pure hobby, will not be as big or professional like gnu) for AT clones 386 (486). […]
This is a piece I wrote a while back and lost when my hard drive died. Just found it again in one of the backups These days, it’s not uncommon to have multiple ways to access the Internet. It is quite likely that you have a home DSL connection and another wireless connection via your […]
The last few months, I was doing a lot less system administration, a little bit of project management and lots of web-related work (mostly on my blogzine). Though Linux by itself can easily handle the first two jobs, as any web developer/designer will know, web design is a lot about making your site work consistently […]
Been pretty busy so a quick post after such a long pause. Getting quite sick of PTCL. They took around 6 months to install a simple phone line and another few months before I had DSL at home. Then they billed me for all the time that I was waiting for them. All that despite […]
Eweek has this article on the ten programming languages you should learn right now. The (sorted) job availabilities they list for each language are as follows: Java: 14,408 C (and all derivatives): 6,164 VB.Net: 2,090 C#: 5,111 Perl: 4,810 Javascript: 4,406 PHP: 1,152 AJAX: 1,106 Python: 811 Ruby and Ruby on Rails: 210 & 54 Interesting to note that Java still has more than twice the […]