A couple of months ago I was experimenting with Mandrake on my ancient Dell laptop. Well time goes on and so does my choice of distro for my laptop. Although Mandrake was working fine I decided to experiment a little, so I replaced Mandrake 9.* with Mandrake 10 via a net install. Once that was running "happily" it was time to change again, so the next distro I tried was Suse … [Read more...] about Linux on the laptop… Update
Archives for July 2004
Sony takes the chip
Sony has won a landmark case in the UK against a British citizen accused of illegally supplying mod chips for Sony playstations. The ruling follows on the implementation of stringent EU copyright laws late last year. Yet another blow against consumers has been struck. … [Read more...] about Sony takes the chip
Google PR and indexing
Google seems to have changed its listing criteria yet again. One possible theory being posited for this latest sea change is the growth of sales in text links. Whether this is true or not is really a matter of making an educated guess, rather than anything based on concrete facts. Why so? Well Google don't make a habit of releasing their secrets Some search phrases that I … [Read more...] about Google PR and indexing
Apache 2 configuration
This site is now running on Apache 2 on Debian. The last time I used apache 2 it was an early release and the configuration structure and methods was almost identical to the 1.* series. The current version uses similar directives, so implementing vhosts (virtual hosts) has not changed that dramatically, however the actual method for configuring them has. Under the Apache … [Read more...] about Apache 2 configuration
Spammers
In order to prevent spammers from posting hundreds of comments to this blog I have added an anti-spam check. It's not configured correctly yet, but at least it stops all the spam stonedead! (It also stops valid comments, but there weren't that many of them anyway :) ) … [Read more...] about Spammers