More problems with the hosting company pSek for another job. For the most part we get a dedicated and all is well, but they are somewhat reckless/negligent. In the past they’ve reverted an entire custom configuration back to vanilla to “fix” everything. Recently they’ve been just reading tickets partially and doing things without understanding the whole …
Sam ported the Simple Animations plug-in to the new version of Compiz (in C++), so I’m checking it out and going to see if anything is in my version that is worth porting. I only slightly modified it to slide entirely off the screen for a minimize animation and took away some blending operation hooks …
I had a short email discussion with the folks from ePoc, making the headset I blogged about a bit ago. Their SDK is available for beta on Linux, so finally I can start the real work – and put their SDK to a test. This is pretty good timing too because 0.9 is released and …
I’ve noticed that cPanel and WHM are somewhat inconsistent (mainly with EasyApache) in if they update/modify a configuration file or overwrite it. Here are some common gotchas: Will the Tweak Settings feature in WHM nuke my configuration? It appears not. This modifies a cPanel configuration, not your php.ini or other system configurations.
It’s been mailed and blogged about to death, but I’ll explain how to increase you TCP performance for usage on a laptop or notebook that will having heavy bandwidth usage. With a common cable provider and wireless device ratings these days you can get about 2 MB/sec connections. However, it’s unlikely you’ll find many HTTP …
It’s interesting to see what’s happening with the latest Ubuntu (9.10, Karmic Koala), which is in Alpha 4 of testing. Firstly, I would like to point out that I think the releases are getting slightly worse as of recent, which may be partly due to the economic crisis and lack of good developers being fully committed. …
Google Chrome for Linux isn’t out yet, but for the meantime the Open Source Chromium project is doing some nice things. Oh, and it’s really fast too. If you man chromium-browser, assuming you’ve already installed it from the PPA, then you may be tricked into thinking it has no options. I’ve only messed with a …