Soon, we’ll be greeted with 11 ton of ex spy satellite material on our heads… potentially.
That thing is going to land somewhere.
The satellite is as large as a school bus, has been powered off and is going to fall.
Some people think about shooting the falling satellite with a missile, but some argue that.
Read more about it here.
A month or so ago, Apple presented MacBook Air to us. Probably the wolds thinest laptop 
it looks to me like a tray, a plateau where you put your food (now that’s a good application )
It’s god a 13″ screen, no DVD, a CPU that was specially made by Intel, a convenient power plug etc.
External USB DVD is an option but you can also use a CD from any computer nearby to you if you install the provided software.
SSD (Solid State Disk) is an option if you’ve got the cash for it (it’s pretty expensive).
You can read more about it here.
I love mint tea 
I drink it every day, usually late at night before going to bed. No sugar, just the tea. It’s really cheap but I’m thinking about getting some leaves in the summer just for fun.
Today I found a good YouTube clip on mint tea
Check it out
This is good news. KDE is ported to Windows/Mac and the users of those operating systems will become more familiar with it.
Although some people think open source programmers should not waste their time on proprietary OSes such as Windows I still think this is a good thing.
The move was eased by using CMake build system. Also, it helped that Trolltech made Qt libraries GPL for non commercial projects on Windows/Mac.
Read about it here and at the KDE website Windows section.
Today we got to see the first public working draft of HTML 5 here.
The most interesting for me were the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 and the improvements.
HTML 5 adds support for 2D drawing by using the new canvas element. There are also audio and video elements, new data presentational elements, new types for user inputs (like browser based calendars) etc.
Although this is still a draft it looks promising. Check it out
I’ve finally started with my own web hosting. I got a reseller account on a Cpanel/WHM box that I’ve installed and still maintain. The box runs the most recent CentOS, version 5.1.
And I got several clients to start with and I want more
The reason I started with the web hosting was a part from frustration with the big hosting companies, like Lunar Pages. I’ve used their services and thought really good things about them but then problems started and they were really not doing their support job right. I have already wrote about them and I will make a separate post about the latest incident.
Right now, I can not offer hundreds of gigabytes of web space like they can but I can offer a professional support and hosting tailored to customer needs. I realized through experience this is the most important thing.
You can just throw away all those gigabytes (which IMO you’re not even going to use, most people have small websites) but when problems appear (and they will, no matter how good a hosting is) you want to know fairly what’s going on and how do you get that fixed. I fit there much more than those shaky support people at big hosting companies.
But to tell you all the truth, I’ve been really impressed with Cpanel support. Really.
They do a wonderful job fixing the issues and they’re that good that I forgive them for their bugs.
Err, maybe not all the bugs but they got credit with me. Keep up the good work guys.
And you can contact me anytime to get a fair offer on your web hosting needs.
Or maybe you want to make a web hosting company? I’m open to do that for you too
Well these aren’t your tipical Lego parts. Here, a part is actually a piece of hardware that you can combine with other pieces to build something.
There are parts for a camera, gps and other stuff. And the interesting thing is that all of them communicate via HTTP, which makes it easy to use and programm.
I’ll go and read about these a lot more later. Don’t wait like me, check it out now.
I saved some pics of Soko Banja and I thought this should be really on my blog
So here it is
It’s so easy to setup NFS server. I needed NFS so I could export my OGG files to my dbox.
I’m runing Ubuntu.
Here are the commands
root@warlock:/etc# apt-get install portmap nfs-kernel-server
After that, I had to edit my /etc/exports file
root@warlock:/etc# cat /etc/exports
/exports dbox(ro,sync)
And now, whenever I change the contents of /etc/exports I need to do exportfs -ra
Happy new year!
I took a few days off from writing since I started my own hosting (more on that later) and I’ve been busy.
Cpanel 11 on CentOS 5 (and 5.1) has DNS issues. Actually from what I’ve read the problems exist also on CentOS 4.something and Fedora. I was reading the posts from here.
The problem is that Cpanel is only concerned about the external view. Now, I’m talking Spanish, let me explain.
The new bind (named) server now has by default 3 views, localhost_resolver, internal and external.
View is actually a separate config. It means I want to have this config for the local box (localhost_resolver), this setup for my network (internal) and this for all other boxes (external).
Now, when you define a domain in Cpanel they add it only to internal and external views, but not to localhost_resolver
And if you’ve put the ip of the local box in your /etc/resolv.conf (as I have did) then you do not get anything about your local domains, DNS ain’t working!
It’s a big problem.
The last time I found a “solution” on the net that advised to remove the first two and leave only the external view. I did that and it worked great.
But then, I guess some auto update process kicked in and it overwrote my changes to named.conf
Whaaaat!
Then I figured it out… They actually do not want you to have localhost ip or the ip’s of your server box in the /etc/resolv.conf
They want you to put there the ip of your ISP. So I did just that and guess what? Everything works!
So I guess you should do the same and fix this issue
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