It has come up a number of times in the past few weeks, people I know looking for pointers on getting started writing their own website in the PHP script language. After sending my last lengthy email on the subject to a friend of mine I thought to myself; “Self? Why don’t you put that [...]
A few years ago I switched from Red Hat to Mandrake. But Mandrake has one feature that I find annoying, urpmi, which makes keeping up with updates something of a chore on non-X and headless boxen. Now I have found a website that offers a urpmi source configurator. Enjoy!
Red Hat, Debian, Slackware SuSE, Turbo, Caldara, Mandrake: I’ve used them all at one time or another. And as each grows up a bit more, focuses change here and there, and my own tastes and needs change. I love them all, but, for the last couple of years Mandrake has been my flavor of choice [...]
So I’m a geek. When I do occassionally use KDE’s file browser I like my files to show up as the correct mime type. While there are a number of text files that don’t show up correctly there is one that I can and did fix with this icon.
Pointman is a Hoosier who works in the IT industry, is an amateur photographer an avid motorcycle rider, shooter and firearms collector.
Please feel free to email Pointman at pointman -at- pointmanspage -dot- com.
The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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