Author Archives: Dennis

Upgrading to WordPress 2.3 and the New Built-in Tagging Feature

Posted on October 9, 2007 by Dennis

I’ve barely completed an upgrade to WordPress 2.3. Out of many new improvements, one which stood out to me is the integrated tagging support. No longer, is it necessary to download one of the many tagging plugins. Some things I … Continue reading →

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More RAM? Or maybe a new Computer?

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Dennis

Well, my sister asked me today which is better, getting more RAM, or just getting a new computer. I’ll do my best to explain. Your CPU is directly responsible for the speed at which a computer program runs. If programs … Continue reading →

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Gentoo Init Scripts for Cherrypy

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Dennis

A few of the web applications I am hosting/developing are written with TurboGears which uses Cherrypy as its applications server. I have a couple things that need fixed for hosting CherryPy web applications on my Gentoo systems. First, there are … Continue reading →

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Pardon my dust

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Dennis

I found that my theme was not working correctly in Internet Explorer (Gee, imagine that.) Rather than search for another, I’ve decided to tweak it myself. Pardon my lack of styles for a bit. Edit There. I’ve created a new … Continue reading →

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Upgrading an OLD Gentoo Machine.

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Dennis

I’m in the process of re-installing a pretty old machine with the latest Gentoo. I’ve got a shared NFS directory with portage and all my machines are using a packages directory. After one machine builds something, another machine can simply … Continue reading →

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One way to unemerge lots of unneeded packages on Gentoo Linux

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Dennis

As part of a recent project, I had installed a lot of packages on a separate machine to test my configuration. As is common, with Gentoo, you want to run the following before you actually emerge anything: emerge -p <package_name> … Continue reading →

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