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Eric Mesa | May 25, 2005
It has been a wonderful journey with this server. I have been able to be liberated and have my very own server. I am limited only in the space and hardware constraints of the machine. I can have SQL databases, php, and whatever else I wish to support. I have been [...]
Eric Mesa | May 24, 2005
One of the best things about Linux is the ability to write shell scripts. These are most often used as utility programs to do repetitive tasks for you. I just wrote my first one on Sunday and here it is followed by commentary.
#!/bin/bash
echo “starting xchat…”
xchat&
echo “starting Gaim…”
gaim&
echo “starting Thunderbird…”
thunderbird&
echo “starting Gkrellm (docked)…”
gkrellm -w&
echo [...]
Eric Mesa | May 23, 2005
Two panoramas I’m really proud of. They’re being hosted on flickr and you can click on them to go to the photo’s page.
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Eric Mesa | May 23, 2005
Here I have decided to run the “top” command in the top transparent Eterm window. This is a great command to have running on the desktop. Basically it’s equivalent to hitting control-alt-delete in Windows and then clicking on “processes”. It tells you what you are running on your system, how much RAM/CPU [...]
Eric Mesa | May 23, 2005
This server will go down this Wednesday. It will be down at least until Tuesday while I move out of my university apartment.
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Eric Mesa | May 18, 2005
While it turns out that the place I’m living at never went with wireless, thus allowing me to keep the server running, I know for sure that we will be shutting down soon. There is always one problem with running your own server at home – when you move there’s no way to keep [...]
Eric Mesa | May 16, 2005
Finally I have figured out something else I have wanted to do for MONTHS! If you look on the top-right corner you will see what looks like an embedded terminal in my desktop. The biggest reason why I’ve wanted to do this is simply because it looks really neat to have a terminal [...]
Eric Mesa | May 15, 2005
I wanted to share my Fluxbox desktop on my main Linux computer both for the geeky motive of showing off my desktop like jocks show off their cars and also to help others achieve the same configurations that I have. Fluxbox, like Blackbox and other *box window managers, are very, very customizable.
Here is the [...]
Eric Mesa | May 14, 2005
As we saw in yesterday’s post, one of the things the author of the article suggested was that Linux needed to get simpler in order to gain a wider audience. But I say, hell no! Do not dumb down Linux! One of the most powerful things about Linux is that we still [...]
Eric Mesa | May 13, 2005
Another reason why Linux will take over the world.
25 Years After DOS: Lessons Learned for Linux
by Walter V. Koenning for the Reallylinux.com OPINION/EDITORIAL section.
NOTICE: Our other recent OP/ED postings include:
Microsoft’s Approach May Isolate U.S. Permanently
Open Source VS Windows: Reality of a Better Paradigm
Microsoft Corporation is preparing a gallant pageant to celebrate 25 years of what [...]
Eric Mesa | May 12, 2005
Here’s an example of when a rich person does something for the good of humanity. Sure, he mentions in the article that he wouldn’t mind making money, but he is genuinely doing good for the planet.
Ubuntu Linux encourages sharing and copying
10 May 2005
Free operating system Ubuntu Linux has been heralded as one of the [...]
Eric Mesa | May 11, 2005
Today I made my first 911 call ever. Of course, the events leading up to this event were the most surreal of my life. As I was waiting to cross the street into the Gun Hill parking lot, a bunch of cars started passing by, as usual. We have a joke that [...]
Eric Mesa | May 10, 2005
“If a man owes you $1000 that’s his problem. If a man owes you $1 000 000, that’s your problem” – Anon
Confusion that only occurs with computer nerds:
Me: did tyhey teach you about “this” in java yet?
Danny: yeah
Me: it’s the neatest thing that noeone actually uses
Danny: we do sometimes
Me: that’s cuz it’s a [...]
Eric Mesa | May 9, 2005
Well, I can’t get into too many details at this time because of professionalism, but I had been praying for certain things to happen in my future and they had occurred! I know we’re not supposed to make deals with God, but I did promise that if He delivered that I would share it [...]
Eric Mesa | May 9, 2005
I hope to get the promised slope day post up soon. In the meanwhile, for those of you who were wondering, the new ipod commercial features the new Gorillaz single, “Feel Good Inc”.
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