SSH is a time-tested, powerful, and generally outstanding utility for connecting two systems in a secure and efficient manner. Enabling anything from simple command-line access to full X Window sessions, it would appear there is almost no limit to what SSH can do. Reading on will only affirm this assertion, as two open-source projects –…
Yahoogle! or Goohoo! – that is the question
I’ve really been thinking about it a lot lately, and now I’m close to the point of certainty that the near future of the Internet will include the merger of the two dot-com giants, Yahoo! & Google. All that’s left, in my eyes, other than some business paperwork and antitrust litigation, is choosing the name…
A day of quotes
In my usual banter with one of my coworkers today, I said the following line, which seemed to make a lot more sense at the time than it did in hindsight: Life is a lot easier when you consider it a figment of your imagination… Later on in the day, in a discussion regarding the…
phpBB 3.0 Beta5 released
Alhamdulillaah, phpBB 3.0 Beta5 has been released! They mention in the announcement that they are anticipating the next release to be a Release Candidate, which means we may possibly have phpBB 3.0 final by this Summer, in shaa Allaah. I have been anxiously awaiting phpBB 3.0 for a loooong time (predating this blog, that’s for…
WPA Wireless, Fedora Core 6, & Intel 2915ABG
After a long series of well-meaning but misleading tutorials, Google searchs, and finally, just plain-old reading, I’ve been granted success at connecting seemlessly to my WPA wireless network at home with an ease that rivals Windows’ own wireless setup (that may not be as flattering as my wording has lead you to imply…), alhamdulillaah.
Upgrades & Updates
Alhamdulillah, it appears as though my upgrade to 2.1 went well. I guess I should probably start upgrading my other wordpress sites. One more thing I noticed, is that nested lists seem to be working perfectly in the newly revamped visual editor. This upgrade seems well worth it. One other minor modification I recently made…
WordPress 2.1 released
Somehow I missed the announement of a new release of WordPress (my blogging software), “Ella”. I don’t know how or why I missed it, all I know is that I have an indescribable urge to upgrade now. I will fill you in on how it all goes. If all you see is a blank page…
Obvious obliviousness
While chatting with a good friend on MSN about a particular forums post, I uttered the following phrase which I found to be very enlightened (and such modesty!): I was really surprised that their obliviousness would be so obvious… For background on this quote, the viewer is encouraged to read the entire thread. The quote…
Installing Gentoo…again
In light of, literally, recent comments, I’ve decided to take a shot at installing Gentoo once again (I can already imagine one person cheering…). One thing that you have to admit is that Gentoo has outstanding documentation. Additionally, the idea of compiling nearly everything from souce, which may seem tedious to some, just seems natural…
The Analemma Project
A recent APOD entry showed a simulated photograph of the relative path of the Sun in the Martian sky, a phenomonon known as an analemma. On another entry linked from the first, I found yet another link to a site called The Analemma Project. This is a fascinating article describing one student’s attempt to create…
Texas Dawah Convention 2006
Alhamdulillaah, I’ve really been enjoying my stay down here in Houston for the Texas Dawah Convention (TDC). Without a doubt, the lectures, workshops, and other programs are all very beneficial, but what I continue to value the most is the new relationships that I am able to forge as well as taking back the fond…
Duck and Cover redux
With much appreciation to Andrei (I make it sound like we’re on a first name basis) and his linkblog, I would very much like to share with you the reason I was laughing hysterically at work today. Reminds me of the hype about duck-and-cover in case of a nuclear holocaust. I say, if you see…
Fedora Core 6 & ATi Radeon x1600 AGP finally working
Alhamdulillaah, through some diligent searching and more than a few unnecessary steps, I was able to get my not-bottom-of-the-line ATi Radeon x1600 AGP video card working reasonably well on Fedora Core 6. Sadly, this series of discoveries happened after I had decided to resort to a complete wipe/reinstallation. However, the decision to hose the old…
Fedora Core 6 running at work
I just got through installing Fedora Core 6 (x86-64 of course!) at work, and alhamdulillaah, the installation went through without a hitch. However, as my workplace is primarily a Microsoft shop, I couldn’t just hose my old WinXP installation, so I needed to do a dual-boot setup. So, while yumex is running in the background,…
phpBB 3.0 Beta3 released!!!
Alhamdulillaah, the final release of phpBB3 approaches ever nearer with the release of Beta3. I’ve always been an avid phpBB fan, and although I was the friendly admin of a vBulletin 3-powered forum for well over a year, phpBB has always been my choice when it came to deploying my own bulletin board sites for…
The heroic story of the recovery of a crashed laptop with a corrupted hard drive
A close friend of mine contacted me about a week ago regarding a problem with his laptop. He has an HP tablet PC, and he had inadvertently allowed the laptop to run the battery down completely. When he tried to turn it back on, he was greeted with a message of doom: NTLDR is Missing…
Upgrading to FC6 – Aftermath
Well, the upgrade is done, and while there didn’t seem to be any unrecoverable issues, I can also say that I’m less than impressed with how the upgrade recognized the system after I ran the install DVD. However, I am also more than willing to give excuses given that I tend to munge up my…
Upgrading to FC6
I’m going to try to upgrade to Fedora Core 6 right now, in shaa Allaah. I’ll let you all know how it went. I usually prefer to install OSes from scratch, but in this case, I’m just going to give upgrading and try and see what happens. If worse comes to worst, then I’ll just…
Fedora Core 6 announced
Fedora Core 6 final has been released, and torrents are up! You can read the announcement, see the release summary, or just go straight to the torrent page. This release is called Zod, but we can forgive them for that, because amongst other things, this release should have Eclipse 3.2, which means I can finally…
Classic Gaming – BBS Doors/Games
Procomm Plus Terminal *beeeeeeee-tshshhhhhhh-khkhkhkkhkhkh* Connected at 9600 bps to Pyro VBBS I can only wonder how many times the above (or whatever the equivalent was…my memory is fuzzy, at best) information flashed on my family’s Casper 14-inch monitor in the early 1990s (of course, back then, it would have just been “90s”, when we were…