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On Mar. 7
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8550219.stmBoost C++ Dev Setup
On Jan. 29
Get Python I use boost.python, so python must be installed before building boost. No need to build from source, just get the Windows installer from http://python.org/. I'm using python 2.6 right now, haven't tried the 3.X series yet. Add C:\Python26 to your Windows PATH environment variable. (You can do it when you modify that below.) Boost Build The boost windows docs has all the instructions you really need to build boost. This guide only adapts that to my local dev conventions Get the boost source from http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/ Also, get the Windows bjam .exe, currently ... more
Remount a readonly disk readwrite
On Dec. 9 2009
Just a reminderHow To Build a Vhosted Linux Development Server on Windows using VirtualBox
On Aug. 6 2009
I've been doing a fair bit of PHP and Python on Linux recently. My favorite PHP editor, PhpEd is Windows only. However, I prefer to develop LAMP code on LAMP. Here's a solution: Linux on VirtualBox, networked to the host Windows OS.
Better Broadband Bandwidth Utilization Using Wondershaper on a Linux Router to Limit the Uplink
On Aug. 6 2009
Since I did some streaming video experiments in the early years of this century I've known that maxing both directions of an internet connection kills throughput. I did some experiments, initially to improve my SIP Phone performance (when my son is playing online games, TBH) and came up with a "low-hanging fruit" solution.Convert a .crt Certificate to a .pem file
On Apr. 22 2009
Every year or so I update CA'd certs and usually forget that my mailserver (cyrus+postfix) needs a PEM format file. Then, I have to fish around for the openssl commands that do the job.VirtualBox for Ubuntu on Vista 64 (The VMWare Killer for Developer VMs?)
On Feb. 13 2009
Ok, that's an overstatement. I used VMWare Workstation successfully for a year to develop for Win2k web servers on my XP desktop. However, when I needed an Ubuntu guest on Windows Vista host (for Python/TurboGears dev), VMWare got ugly with various host apps. I searched...and I found...VirtualBox.This doc is a loose how-to, because some steps were poorly documented.
My Choice: Best IPTables Tutorial
On Feb. 10 2009
This link is hands down the best tutorial of IpTables I've come across.PostgreSQL 1A
On Jan. 28 2009
I spent the last 8 years on a lot of MySQL and little MSSQL. Now, I'm on a PostgreSQL project. Here's my cheat sheet of DBMS specific commands I needed to figure out right away.WxPython 2.8 Vista 64 bit crash - workaround found
On Dec. 9 2008
Originally posted on the wxpython-users list
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