Bad day for a SunFire 12K
Woah, this SunFire 12K certainly had a bad day due to the courier company’s mistake.
Thanks Azeem Jiva, via PlanetSun for the link.
Thursday July 22, 2004 · Permalink
Web Content Filtering on Linux
NewsForge has a tutorial on setting up a web content filtering proxy
Thursday July 1, 2004 · Permalink
Creating QIF Files for Quicken
I have the need to convert some data from a simple flat file format into a form that I can import into Quicken. Here are the documents that I’ve found on Intuit’s web site that will help in the construction of a valid QIF file for importation:
- General structure of Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) files
- Example of a Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) file
- Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) identifiers for non-investment accounts
Thursday July 1, 2004 · Permalink
Old Articles Now Imported
All the old article have now been imported from my old blosxom weblog that lived at osbourne.org/weblog.
It was a bit more work than I expected since I couldn’t use LOAD DATA INFILE, so I ended up generating a bunch of SQL statements to insert the old data into the textpattern table a line at a time.
Thursday June 24, 2004 · Permalink
1.2 Terabytes of Storage for under $1600
If the price of EMC storage is getting you down, here's an article on how to make your own 1.2 Terabye Storage Server for under $1600.
Best quote: "I'll probably be crying when I look back on this article in 5 years, when terabyte drives come free in specially-marked boxes of Captain Crunch."
Friday June 18, 2004 · Permalink
Using ProxyPass and RewriteEngine on Apache
When looking for examples of using ProxyPass and ProxyPassRevers usage in Apache, I found this great article on Apache mod_proxy in the CocoonWiki. The article talks about using the proxy setup for allowing access to a Cocoon servlet container, but the setup is applicable to any servlet container or back-end web services you can imagine. The author even shows how to mix serving static and dynamic pages from the proxy and how to make sure a decent error page is shown if the proxied service is down.
Wednesday June 16, 2004 · Permalink
Blosxom to TextPattern Links
I’ve become one of the VC200 of TextDrive the new venture of Dean Allen of TextPattern fame, I’m starting to look how I can move my Blosxom weblog posts into TextPattern. I’ll be using this entry to document any helpful links I find.
- Peter Gallagher’s TextPattern Forum post How do I move from blosxom to TP?
- Jason’s note on dumping/restoring a TextPattern database. Could be useful to dump a small test database to get the SQL format.
Thursday June 3, 2004 · Permalink
Two Flash Games
Following links from all over the place (but ultimately starting at Bloglines) I found myself at Clive Thompson's weblog Collision Detection. There he mentioned Plastic Balls (think circular breakout with magnetism) and Blob Lander (Lunar Lander with fun graphics and challenges); both are very stylish fun to play Flash games.
Thanks Clive!
Friday May 28, 2004 · Permalink
Pixel Perfect Digital
Pixel Perfect Digital is another site with a growing collection of digital photos and images for use in website designs. Interesting is the fact that they even have a category of web banner designs at 800×200 all ready for use.
Thanks xBlog
Friday April 16, 2004 · Permalink
Hello Bloglines, Sayonara Blagg
I’d been using Blagg for quite a while to produce my Dailynews weblog from a few dozen RSS feeds.
A couple weeks ago I ran across Bloglines and decided to try it out. It was very simple to setup my account and import the OPML file that I was using as input for Blagg. Even better than my Blagg/Blosxom setup was the fact that I could categorize the RSS feeds and Bloglines would let me know how many new articles were there.
Since I read my RSS feeds both at home and work, Bloglines is even better than my setup, since it keeps track of which articles I’ve read from whereever I was.
So I’m retiring my Dailynews setup and going to Bloglines exclusively.
Saturday March 27, 2004 · Permalink