Author Archives: Donncha

Garret wasn’t too hopeful for his grandmother a few days ago. I hope she isn’t in pain and you get to tell her all you want to.

I can only guess at what Zimran means when he says, “She said yes! I am the happiest man in the world.” Congrats!

He also has a piece on Palladium – It’ll be a digital content management system. Old legacy apps and unsigned applications (such as GPL or open source apps) will run fine on it. As will viruses and worms, “just as they always have.”

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, if you’re running some form of Unix get GnuCash to manage your money.

Say NO to Netscape. Not version 6 of Netscape, but he thinks the sun shines out of MSIE..

Dave likes Minority Report. I’m going to see it tonight and I can’t wait!

drive-thru – another blog to watch out for.

ILUG: Microsoft at LinuxWorld?

Simple benchmark using Smarty and PHP Accelerator:
Using the simple example given in the documentation, my test server served 23 pages/second. That was without any accelerator.
When I enabled the accelerator, the server served 51 pages/second! I’m impressed!

The Vim Online site has lots of useful Vim tips and scripts as well as download links to the latest versions of this fine editor!
I found out about word completion quite by accident a long time ago, the previous link provides more detail and explains how to use your dictionary file as a source of words.
This is the most popular tip on the site. Use * to search for the word under the cursor.
word completion using tab instead of the usual CTRL-P.
The syntax highlighting sometimes gets screwy in long documents (over a few hundred lines), but there’s a way fix that.

APOD Links!

• Apollo 17’s lunar lander from 100km away. You can explore other landing sites too!
• Asteroids have moons too.
• The Fox Fur Nebula just looks amazing.