My respect for the N800 just went up, the whole procedure must have taken 15-20 seconds. Nokia-N800-50-2:~# wget -sh: wget: not found Nokia-N800-50-2:~# curl -sh: curl: not found Nokia-N800-50-2:~# apt-get install wget [snip apt downloading and install wget] Nokia-N800-50-2:~# wget wget: missing URL Usage: wget [OPTION]… [URL]… Try `wget –help’ for more options. Nokia-N800-50-2:~#

This website is now hosted on Slicehost (along with section99.net). It’s a little early to know how it will turn out, but so far I’m loving having not only a shell, but root access. Signing up was completely painless and the the VPS was provisioned within minutes with several different operating system options (though I’m [...]

$ date Fri Sep 14 12:48:47 EST 2007 $ php -r "echo date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, strtotime(‘Friday’));" 2007-09-14 00:00:00 $ php -r "echo date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, strtotime(‘next Friday’));" 2007-09-21 00:00:00 $ date -d "Friday" Fri Sep 14 00:00:00 EST 2007 $ date -d "next Friday" Fri Sep 14 00:00:00 EST 2007 My first thought was that PHP was [...]

I’m amazed that somethings just work: I’m currently editing a remote file in Komodo Edit (on Windows) via SFTP, to a computer inside another network via a SSH tunnel (as it’s not directly accessible from outside), which has a sshfs (fuse) mount to another computer (on the same network though). Still, I do wish for [...]

This (almost) marks the end of my running Linux (Ubuntu 6.10) on my laptop. I run Ubuntu at work, so this is more about compatibility than Ubuntu as a distro. Laptop: HP Compaq Presario v6000-something-or-other (the Core2Duo one with the 100GB HDD) Good things: Installed without any problems Audio and video acceleration worked out of [...]