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Don’t put your heart into it - too much

I’ve found a common trend among developers that I thought I would share..
I have found that their ‘creations’ are very much a part of their being. Their children become so precious to them that they are not just simply programs or designs but perfect creations - created in their own likeness pehaps?
I encourage you all […]

Running our own web server

( Tech )

Me and a friend have had this idea that it may be good to run our own web server.
Who would have thought running a web server was so complicated?
So what I am thinking is..
The physical box would be something similar to this linky linky.
Operating System - Unix, FreeBSD
It would run Apache, MySQL, PHP5, PostgreSQL, Ruby, […]

Desktop background - DHTML

I didn’t know it was possible to set your background as a html file..
Mario!
I think as a sign of respect we should all set our desktop backgrounds to this

Not pretty piece of code

Well the task didn’t seem too difficult to me but then this is what I came up with..
As part of a file upload on a web form I needed to check if a file with that name existed on the server, if so I wanted to append _2 to the filename then append the extension..
If […]

I got a broken xorg.conf

( Tech )

Ok, so I installed Ubuntu (Dapper) last night and in trying to add a resolution preference for a widescreen (1440×900) I broke it and now nothing works apart from good ole’ stable windows.
I did as the was suggested and saved a copy of the file elsewhere ( Ubuntu desktop )
I’m only a little […]