Yesterday foxwolfblood told me that his WRT54GS was capable of doing IPv6 (via tunnel) so I decided to put my WRT54GL to some use, so here goes:
Things needed :
- OpenWRT capable router
- IPv6 tunnel (preferably from HE)
The browser is dead, The browser is alive.
Blah blah Chrome OS blah blah Google blah blah the cloud is the future. I have been on that horse for more than a year now, and with due therapy, I can finally admit that I am wrong. The browser is dead for applications, everything will be on the Internet. But it will not be on the web.
The World of VPS
This will be a bunch of small reviews of all the VPS services that I have used in the past few years. Some of the details are a bit hazy (especially if the service was bad) and mostly put together from Paypal invoices so here goes something.
Programming and me
Wow, writing this post at 12:26 AM on the 21st while listening to k-pop, so excuse any random rambling. Eh, rambling? What the hell, this is my blog, I post whatever the hell I want to………
(And no I’m not high)
Theme concerns
So I’ve been told that the current theme is ugly. Yeah, it doesn’t have fancy CSS animations and backgrounds with fancy fonts using the Google Fonts API (and fuck Roboto for web pages).
But hey, its damned readable and clean. So unless you have a theme that is :
a) clean and readable
b) not filled with a shit ton of JavaScript
c) preferably not fixed-width
Don’t bother telling me to change it.
Python development on Windows
This post will be talking about how to set up a proper Python environment on Windows for development work.
Things that we need and where to get them:
- Python (make sure to get Python 2 or 3 depending on what you are developing for)
- Pip
- Cygwin (optional, but can be helpful for the tools it comes with)
- Windows Powershell (comes by default with Windows 7; you can still use cmd but I prefer Powershell due to its nice aliases. )
- A text editor of your choice. (My preference is Sublime Text 2)
Why KDE is the future
KDE, not Unity, is the future of desktop GNU/Linux.
If you haven’t been living under a rock this past week you probably know that the KDE Software Compilation version 4.8.0 has been released. This version brings a lot of great improvements and in my opinion is the best KDE release to date. Among the rather large list of new features, this release includes several kwin optimizations, the blur effect has been fixed, a new dolphin view engine, improvements to gwenview, a new QML splash screen (as well as most of the plasma widgets being ported to QML), the new Secret Service framework and many more. Rather than bore you with all the details which can be obtained from the announcement page, I’m going to visually showcase why KDE had it right all along.
Moving to nginx + php-fpm : A lesson learnt in verbosity
So yesterday I decided to move my web server from a typical LAMP setup with Memcached to a nginx + php-fpm setup. This in of itself is a rather simple task, I have already moved another site of mine to the same setup. But I ran into some issues while I was moving.
The issue was that my VirtualHost for this site wasn’t working, it decided to redirect to my web root (which resulted in a 503 Forbidden of course since there wasn’t anything there).
Commentless?
Well, once again MG Siegler has done it again; wrote an article on Tumblr that somehow ends up affecting a some random web sites out there. Link
He makes many good points, and the article in question he was talking about makes good points. So that leads to today, where we decided to jump on the bandwagon and turn off comments. The bottom line is this, “these are our words and you don’t have the right to put your words on it.” Does that make us sound like a bunch of dicks? Of course. Do we have a good reason for this? Yep.
Don’t get me wrong here, comments are a great thing when done right. But there lies the issue. For every good comment, there is around 5 more ones that add no value and just add trash to the site. And for those who do actually write cohesive and great comments that are tasteful and add value? We are sorry, this was not meant to offend you in any manner. But with the couple other hundred ways you have to contact the author, the hope is that you will partake in that.
To summarize, we have better things to do (like make articles of good quality) then moderate comments all day. Now I know this blog isn’t that popular compare to other more spam-filled ones. But you could ask anyone who watches over their comments and you would be told that it is a pain.
As always, thank you for reading and have a great day.
(Due to the lack of comments, if you want to actually discuss this with me, you can contact me via a plethora of ways. Twitter, Google+ )