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      • The search for the new text editor
        01/27/05
        Changing from one editor to another... wow! An editor is a tool that i'm using so much, that changing from one to another feels like moving to another appartment.

        On windows, I'm using homesite 3 for quite some years. Homesite 4 and 5 never attracted me: adding feature after f

      • Oracle on Gentoo
        01/21/05
        Oracle installations are always a pain, and on a non-supported distro like gentoo it will probably be much worse. Lets see what we get.

        The oracle CD (9.2) contains a script called runInstaller.

        * Create a user oracle and group oracle to run this script in.
        * run r

      • oracle vs mysql
        01/21/05
        after fiddling with mysql a bit, you normally want to use a real database. The limitations of mysql are numerous: no views, no triggers, no stored procedures and so on. For very simple applications its ok, but sql is more than just a select statement. Therefore someday you move over to oracle. Oracl

      • mysql from a remote machine.
        01/21/05
        Assuming you can connect locally to mysql, you'd expect to be able to connect remote...not! This is not as easy as it seems.

        First make sure you CAN access the mysql server from a remote machine. By default, the my.cnf file contains a statement:
        bind-address=127.0.0.1
        that

      • Gentoo and the pvr350 with ivtv support
        01/21/05
        Getting mythtv to work is the final step in a long range of sub-applications that need to work first. Amongst these are:

        Mysql
        One is mysql. Emerge mysql does the trick, but then
        /etc/init.d/mysql start
        told me that I still needed to run a script. The ebuild doesn't do

      • The Via Epia M10000 with Nehemiah cpu
        01/21/05
        Great stuff coming from via nowadays. I am experimenting with those via boards for a while now, and they are fun! Why buy a noisy, expensive 3Ghz intel or athlon, when all you need is a 600Mhz pc. On top of that, it does not need a fan, so it's completely silent.

        Tutuut
        One of t

      • getting the gentoo live-cd to work
        01/21/05
        The gentoo manuals are great, taking you step-by-step through the whole process. Following this, i first needed their live-cd for booting this old pentium 166mhz. So i burned the live-cd 2004.2 iso (the minimal one).

        Watch out that you burn this one as an 'image', so do not crea

      • Tired of redhad/fedora: The Gentoo case
        01/21/05
        After using redhat for quite some years i decided to give gentoo (www.gentoo.org) a try. The main advantage is their impressive package system called 'portage'.

        The drawback of the redhad distributions is that you always need the correct rpm if you want to install something, and