Formatting Text in Typo
This Typo blog is setup to use Markdown, and here are some basic formatting rules. Input: Header 2 ——- ##Another Header 2 emphasis strong * List 1 * List 2 – Another List 1 – Another List 2 1. Ordered...
View ArticleLinux Setup
When we moved in September, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to keep the Internet connection to my home server going continuously, so I transfered all the email and web accounts I was hosting to a 1and1...
View ArticleHDTV Setup
HDTV (High Definition TV) is so cool, once you see it, you will never want to go back to regular TV. It is like the difference between listening to a weak radio station in the car that has a lot of...
View ArticleAlfresco architecture
Alfresco is a new but promising open source document management system. It is Java based and supports many of the latest standards including the JSR-170 file access API, the JSF tag based interface,...
View ArticleEclipse: Closing Projects
Eclipse is known to be a memory hog and slow at starting up and shutting down. Especially if yo have a lot of projects with a lot of files, it can be painfully slow to start. A friend of mine took a...
View ArticleGoogle Map Mashup in Rails
How would you like to put an interactive Google map in your Ruby on Rails page with single or multiple markers? Here is how to do this.
View ArticleEclipse and Subversion
It can be a little confusing to set up Eclipse to work with your Subversion repository. Once you have downloaded and installed Subclipse, follow these instructions to connect to your SVN repository:
View ArticleGetting Started With Flickr on Rails
I have been working on a Flickr mashup on my wiki so that I can easily insert links to my Flickr pictures. There are several Flickr libraries for Rails, but the documentation is not very good. So here...
View ArticleHow To Really Mess Up a Hard Drive (Then Fix It)
Yesterday, I almost lost everything on my hard disk – very scary. I was playing around with Ubuntu 6.06 and it ran well from the CD, so I let it install itself to the hard disk. I knew that it was...
View ArticleOn-Demand Document Management
Here are some of my thoughts regarding on-demand document management.
View ArticleTest Post From Windows Live Writer
This is a test of the Windows Live Writer. It works pretty well!
View ArticleImproving Hard Drive Performance
My computer is pretty lame. It is a lightweight Averatec 3280 laptop running Windows XP, and I bought it at Staples for under $900. This is half the price of a comparable Dell, so I willing to live...
View ArticleApache Redirects to the Rescue
There are a couple of technical problems with my web site. The first is that to get into this blog, you need to add the trailing slash at the end of “typo” like this: http://www.maxdunn.com/typo/...
View Article"svn: Malformed network data" error in Eclipse
Several weeks ago, I changed from a Windows laptop to a MacBook. After I got Eclipse setup and went to check-in some code to RubyForge, I received an error: svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn:...
View ArticleSVN Connection problem
We use RubyForge to host MaxWiki. A few days ago, I started having problems connecting to our Subversion (SVN) repository on RubyForge. In Eclipse, I would get the message: svn: Cannot connect to...
View ArticleInstalling MySQL Ruby Gem on Mac OS X 10.4
There are some problems installing the Ruby Gem MySQL on the Mac 10.4. When you do a: sudo gem install mysql you will likely get an error like: *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due...
View ArticleDifferences between RewriteRule in .htaccess and httpd.conf
This is probably obvious to people who know Apache well, but I just spent a half day struggling with the differences between RewriteRule in .htaccess and httpd.conf. I was assuming they would behave...
View ArticleSetting up Subversion 1.4 with Apache 2
I like Linux, I really do. That is one reason why I got a Mac last year and also why I host my web sites on Linux servers. However, for all the talk about Microsoft’s DLL Hell, it is nothing compared...
View ArticleMySQL Recovery
We had a bad crash yesterday on our MySQL 5.0.22 database. Our guess is that we ran out of hard disk space during a large transaction and the database somehow got corrupted. Worse, restarting MySQL...
View ArticleAutomatically starting Apache with chkconfig
It is interesting that Apache 2.2 doesn’t include a startup script that is compatible with the Linux ‘chkconfig’ command. Here is how you fix this: First, add this information to the top of...
View ArticleInitial Subversion (SVN) import
If you are using the SVN command line, here is a trick that makes it easier to import your files into Subversion. The problem with the usual method is that after importing your files, you have to check...
View ArticleDesigning Web Sites That Look Good Everywhere
There are three main issues to consider when designing web sites that will look good to the widest number of visitors: monitor size, OS/browser and colors. Monitor Size First, no-one uses 640×480...
View ArticleAvoid Spam - Don't Use Simple Email Addresses
When choosing an email address, it is often tempting to use just your first name or last name like lisa@mycompany.com or smith@mycompany.com. Don’t do it! The problem with these simple email addresses...
View ArticleMythTV Trial
Several weeks ago, my Windows Media Center started having problems. TV playback would stutter and the CPU was pegged at 100%. After looking for solutions on the web, I deinstalled all codecs and then...
View ArticleProblem submitting form in an email
For COZMOS, we are implementing an advanced email discussion system where users can type in their responses to multiple posts right on the email and then hit Submit to submit all of them. However, we...
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