Category Archives: Tech Stuff

Netbook Aweigh

Posted on 2010/06/25 by lost

Have you ever wanted to bugger off somewhere semi-remote to just get away from people? I know I have. However, my idea of enjoying such a location does not involve sitting around staring at the scenery or slogging through random … Continue reading →

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ACLs, PHP, and suPHP

Posted on 2010/03/05 by lost

At my day job, I maintain shared web servers. One of the biggest problems for shared web servers is how to protect different users from each other. In particular, one wants to prevent one user’s files from being read by … Continue reading →

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MongoDB

Posted on 2009/11/14 by lost

As some of you may be aware, I’ve been working on a scheme for cataloguing my book collection for as long as I’ve known what a book catalogue is, which is somewhere on the order of a quarter century now. … Continue reading →

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mod_rewrite-fu

Posted on 2009/07/17 by lost

Over the past few years, I’ve become increasingly impressed by mod_rewrite. Today a bashed up against a problem which turned out to have a fairly elegant solution, thought it looked like a lost cause at first. Continue reading →

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GNU Build System

Posted on 2008/10/03 by lost

I just had my first real experience with the GNU build system, otherwise known as automake and autoconf. I have been working on an operating system for the Coco (an old 8 bitter). This led me to creating a cross-assembler … Continue reading →

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Coco Project

Posted on 2008/07/28 by lost

I started a while back writing an assembler for 6809 and 6309 CPUs. While there are lots of decent assemblers for those CPUs available, none of them behave quite the way I want them to. The ones that handle forward … Continue reading →

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The State of Printing in Linux

Posted on 2008/07/20 by lost

I just bought a new printer today on account of my old one has some sort of electronics fault (it will only print one or two pages after a complete cold reset and reinstall of the printer on the host … Continue reading →

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Compiling vs Interpreting

Posted on 2008/01/13 by lost

I’ve recently started work on a program to catalogue my books and book-like items. After a large amount of thought, I settled on a GUI application even though I knew nothing at all about writing a GUI application. Once I … Continue reading →

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Hardware Fun

Posted on 2007/08/16 by lost

I had the opportunity today to play with a dual xeon 2.6GHz server with 12GB of RAM and a 3Ware RAID controller. Now that’s a cool bit of gear. The only hitch was that I had to break into it … Continue reading →

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Writing an Assembler

Posted on 2007/06/10 by lost

My first real experience with computers at any level was with the TRS80 Color Computer back in the 1980s. That machine has a Motorola 6809 CPU in it (which is an 8 bit cpu with a 16 bit address space). … Continue reading →

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