Posts filed under “General”

The Gimp

I’ve been experimenting with The Gimp after hearing it allows creation of icons. It’s a very nice tool and now, I have favicons my site. I intend to explore it fully and see what I can d with it because it’s quite complex [but good].

(K)Ubuntu

For some reason I’ve always had problems getting Linux to run on my machine — especially the boot-loaderĀ part. Lilo and Grub are just not my territory — I want to use the Windows boot-loader. All the tutorials I’ve seen on the net talk about installing Windows after Linux — but I already have Windows running. […]

AuthWare CMS

I had a minor problem getting AuthWare to function properly on Linux — as expected. I had to make some adjustments because PHP 5 on Linux returns $_SERVER[‘ORIG_PATH_INFO’] for Windows [‘PATH_INFO’]. Aside from that, everything functioned well :). I’m still tweaking the search results — I’m looking for a way to perform syntax highlighting (like […]

Knoppix, Linux, etc

I’m an open-source fan but I’ve had very awful experiences with Linux. Recently, my friend Kashif told me about Knoppix — or should I say convinced me to use it. I’ve always been scared of all those funny-sounding names – Knoppix, Morphix, etc — so I always stuck to Fedora Core and Xandros – both […]

Windows Live

I took a look at the Windows Live website today and had a good chuckle. Microsoft seems to want to overtake both Google and Yahoo in the search business. Looks like a pretty shoddy job to me because Javascript is a must. Personally I’m not looking for cool effects when I want to search. And […]

Gmail Flaws

I just read this morning about a flaw Google had in its Gmail system. It was uncovered by a 14-year-old boy called Anthony. Google seems miffed that he decided to make it public instead of telling them directly. It might be to save some face – or to ensure the word doesn’t go around among […]