Any decent web designer nowadays understands the value of cross browser and cross platform compatability. You can put a serious dent in your site traffic by only making it available to say, just Internet Explorer. Unfortunately the luxury of having every browser on every platform isn’t something alot of agencies have the time or money [...]
Continue readingI happened across a technology known as Xgl in my new exploration of the world of Linux. First thoughts were along the lines of “sounds nice, but whats the use?” when reading about 3D desktops and transparent windows. However, I then watched a video by Novell and thought “Looks REALLY cool, i’ll have a play [...]
Continue readingThis information is everywhere and is by no means anything special. But as a recent convert to apache from IIS I need somewhere to put this as reference: To setup multiple hosts in apache, add the following into http.conf <VirtualHost 10.1.2.3> DocumentRoot /www/vhost1 ServerName www.my-dom.com </VirtualHost> Full details over on apache.org Genius huh? I’ve also [...]
Continue readingI’ve been playing with Suse 10.1 for almost a week now. I’ve certainly had some ups and downs with it. A big part of the problem was my own lack of knowledge in the Linux department. One of the great features of Suse is Yast2 basically a tool for managing everything. The neat part of [...]
Continue readingI’ll be adding to this list as I go, it would seem even with the very beautiful Desktop engines (i’m using Gnome at the moment) there is still very much a necessity to know some command line stuff. The Basics Linux Console = Command Line in windows, there are various flavours available File structure referencing [...]
Continue readingWhilst it may have taken two days to finally get sorted, the installation process was relatively painless. The main delay was that my first effort at suse 10.1 install hung whilst “initialising catalogues”, not knowing if it had hung or not at the time i left it overnight. I’m not completely sure but i think [...]
Continue readingIn a previous post I discussed signing up for webhosting, since then I tried to sign up for some budget hosting with 1and1. I am aware of a lot of bad press for 1and1 but I didn’t have overly high requirements and I didn’t want to spend a lot. However, true to form there was [...]
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