New A64 server

Posted by cpbotha on March 26th, 2005 in · 1 Comment

I finally caved in and upgraded my sweet little Celeron 300A Linux server…

Lush, OCaml and more, part deux

Posted by cpbotha on March 24th, 2005 in · 3 Comments

In a previous blog entry, I did some extremely informal benchmarking with Lush, OCaml, Python and C…

Hitchhiker`s Guide to The Galaxy

Posted by cpbotha on March 13th, 2005 in · 0 Comments

Whatever you do today, make sure that at some stage it involves watching the third trailer of the new Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy movie by going here. It truly does rock…

Ubuntu 5.04 preview on Stoeptegel-1

Posted by cpbotha on March 11th, 2005 in · 3 Comments

I needed a machine to install Oracle 10g on and although my 300MHz Celeron Ubuntu 4.10 server (with 192M of RAM) is just perfect as fileserver and mini linux playground, those specs just don’t cut it when a real man decides to slap Oracle around for a bit…

Hyperlinked AVIs and PowerPoint 2003

Posted by cpbotha on March 6th, 2005 in · 2 Comments

In my new life as PowerPoint 2003 flunky, I experience many and exciting adventures!..

Blagg and Wordpress

Posted by cpbotha on March 3rd, 2005 in · 2 Comments

My infamous weblog aggregator relies on Bloxsom Blagg to do the grunt work.
The Wordpress blogs of some of my friends were generating feeds with a CDATA tag in the description field…

The Commonly Confused Words Test

Posted by cpbotha on March 2nd, 2005 in · 2 Comments

I saw this on MJ’s blog, so I had to take the test…