I was wondering what feed reader I’ll use since I switched from Windows to [Ubuntu] Linux, again… … when I saw a very pleasant surprise from Google Reader: Set up Google Reader for offline use. This feature enables you to read your 2000 most recent items even when your computer is not connected to…
NoMachine’s NX is a cool technology to GUI-ly remote your server using less bandwidth and more power responsiveness. If you miss your GUI luxury, let’s install it on your VPS, shall we? Get some Ubuntu first, Dapper or Edgy or Feisty all work fine. Installing some kind of desktop GUI will make the journey smoother…
EC2 is a new server clustering services by Amazon. The difference between traditional servers it’s that this is very on-demand and automated. You won’t need to phone call an admin and “hey, we need a server” anymore, all you have to do is click “launch” and you’ve got a server running. (and the billing starts…
Everybody knows Firefox, Mozilla‘s flagship browser that’s being used by most geeks worldwide (and increasingly used by non-geeks too.) In the emerging Rich Internet Applications platform market, we are seeing more and more vendors jump in: Adobe with Apollo, Microsoft with Silverlight, Sun Microsystems with JavaFX, and a bunch others. So has anyone considered using…
Having problems using your blog client with WordPress? I have been getting errors for awhile without being able to post to WordPress using a blogging software. I was lucky enough to be able to get the following error messages: “XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.” or “The server returned an unexpected reponse code: 403” or…
Unable to find a “good” software to quickly control Windows Services. Here’s what I came up with: It’s written using Microsoft .NET which isn’t “portable” (yeah, like Windows services is portable?) 😉 If anybody wants it I’ll provide it for free including source code. 🙂
