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Posting From Emacs

telcor — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:26:26 +0000

Today marks at least my 10th attempt at making Emacs my main editor. I’m trying harder this time however. For example, this entire post was composed and submitted directly from Emacs. A co-worker has been using Emacs exclusively for 1 year and I’m drawing on his knowledge and experience to improve my conversion. One element [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

OpenSUSE Meanderings

telcor — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:00:52 +0000

At work we debated adding OpenSUSE 11 as an officially supported platform[ 1]. In the past, when doing this, I’ve preferred using the targeted platform exclusively for an extended period. For various reasons, this hasn’t been feasible this time. While testing time has been devoted to it, that doesn’t give one the same familiarity as [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

From Tech Support to QA

telcor — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:17:10 +0000

Resolve the issue and move to the next one. This is a common mind set among the Tech Support personnel where I work. This is certainly commendable from the customer’s view point as the customer certainly wants the issue resolved and in a timely fashion. However, what benefits the customer more:

Resolve the immediate problem; [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Xen to the process

telcor — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:52:50 +0000

For two years now my testing platform has consisted of half a dozen physical machines (running a mixture of CentOS Linux and FreeBSD) and two powerful servers running VMware server. During that time I’ve had a couple instances to introduce Xen into the mix, but never on a permanent basis, usually due to time constraints. [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Securing PHP in Shared Hosting Environment

telcor — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:54:27 +0000

One of the problems inherent to using an Apache Module in a shared web hosting environment is the fact Apache modules gain all the permissions of Apache. Hence, using something like PHP as an Apache module can create serious security vulnerabilities. Since the PHP scripts run in the Apache context, users can easily cause problems [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

My First Program

telcor — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:02:20 +0000

My First Program

Back in 1998 I took my first job in “the industry”: an EDI Clerk/IT Assistant. Being completly self-taught, from the corner or nowhere, I was extremely happy to have the job. It offered potential to learn about the IT field and would give me real-world experience, not only in solving problems, but [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

The Mighty Mouse – a Great Disappointment

telcor — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:58:44 +0000

My workplace recently bequeathed a G5 Mac to me, my first “real” Apple computer. With it came two mice:

A mighty mouse A wireless mighty mouse

After using the Mighty Mouse for a couple months, I can honestly say this is the worst mouse design I’ve everused. Oh, don’t get me wrong, aesthetically, the mice [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Mandrake/Mandriva: Your Time Is Gone

telcor — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:00:28 +0000

There was a time when Mandrake generated a lot of excitement and talk within the Linux community. The first distro to use egcs, compiling the binaries for Pentium class processors. Then the first to put a lot of focus on first time Linux useres by developing simple to use wizards and control panel applets (among [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Installed: Disappointment

telcor — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:14:22 +0000

During the past few weeks, I’ve had opportunity to install more than my fairshare of GNU/Linux distributions. Indeed, likely I installed more distributionsthe last three months than the prior 10+ years of using GNU/Linux. The distributions installed are:

cAos i386, x86_64 CentOS 3 i386, x86_64 CentOS 4 i386, x86_64 Fedora Core 1,2,3,4,5 i386, x86_64 (for [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

VMWare

telcor — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:26:15 +0000

At work, I’m in charge of putting together two “massive” VMWare servers for developers, QA and tech support. These servers will be duplicates of each other and are using the free version of VMWare server.

Each server will have 5 VMWare guest installations of every operating system we support, not counting MS Windows. That’s about [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.