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Joomla! vs. Wordpress

on in Other, PHP

I’ve been using Wordpress for over two months now and I’ve already written 24 posts! I thinks that’s a nice average.

When I look at my old blog: v2.vanutsteen.nl, I think my average there is about two posts every month or so.

The difference is that...

Some Wine and Hardy (post 2)

on in Linux

No, it wasn’t the fault of wine. It was my fault. I installed the nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website. Wine then couldn’t find the opengl library and segfauled. So after installing the drivers from the Ubuntu repository it worked again. Now I can...

Some Wine and Hardy

on in Linux

Wine still segfaults on me with Hardy Heron! I’m gonna look if this still works:

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Does not work (segfaulting):
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
sudo -i
apt-get build-dep...

Disabling a cpu-core in Ubuntu

on in Linux

When we play unreal tournament GOTY it always runs bad on newer machines. One of my collegues found it the problem was the smp support of UT. Disabling all cores except the first on solved the problem. In Linux that’s like doing:

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Image resize script for wordpress

on in Development, PHP

Wordpress is a great blog application. It has some nice free templates and the default installation has everything I need without being bloated. I miss one thing: automatic resizing of images who are too big. So I plan on making it myself. Something...

Reading blog posts

on in Linux, Other

I daily read a lot of blog posts. To keep up with what’s happening in the ruby/linux community and what’s the latests buzz in the webdeveloper world.

I’m now using google to keep track of the RSS feeds. I’ve used some desktop applications in the...

Up to date on GIT

on in Development, Ruby

I’ve been using GIT now some weeks (for my ultra-secret ruby project) and I must say it’s nice. Nothing more than nice. Just like svn was nice to use (compared to old-school full backups). When I first saw the GIT commands I was dazzling with confusion...