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Good guide on installing and configuring Debian to be used as an ISP server. Has some good information on configuring various interesting stuff… The Perfect Setup

from the “it-just-works” dept: three people, three computers, three operating systems - one new WLAN access point in my office. Installing the access point (D-Link AP2000) and finding the DHCP setting for it’s IP adress: 5 minutes (D-Link could use some help designing the web interface for their access point… Good: You have to change the default admin password to use it) Mac OS/X: online without intervention Windows XP: online with one manual intervention (select to connect to insecure WLAN) Linux: online with severe manual intervention (and writing obscure stuff in some configuration files) All in all - a really enjoyable experience… ...

Simon always has interesting reading, and the Python Filesystems article is no exception.

What a joy… coding a simple website with some text on the lower right, independent of browser window size. No, no JavaScript please. And no - no tables, they are so 90s. So - because it’s “àla mode” it’s XHTML and CSS. And because it’s commercial, it should look good on a number of different systems. Also on a Mac. With IE on a Mac. A couple of hours later - I give up. IE/Mac is so broken, that there are websites that deal with a lot of annoyances. ...

I know and write in way to many languages. Specifically in computer languages. Over the years I have written code in C, C++, Java, JavaScript, LotusScript, LotusFormulas, Smalltalk, Perl, Python, Ruby, Pascal, Modula-2, APL (read only, thanks god), 8051 Assembler and probably a couple of things I have hidden from my conciousness. I love languages. But I hate writing them. I’m constantly switching between languages (at the moment: LotusScript, JavaScript, Java and Perl) and I always get the small things wrong: ...

I moved my Linux Home Server from a Sereniti 2000 case (which is a hopeless piece of crap, cheap metal, had to hammer one screw through the aluminium because it was stuck and the screwdriver literally screwed it, and noisy as hell) with a smaller Morex 2688 which sports a lot less space inside but has no fans! Ahh - a quiet server - unless it’s accessing the harddisk… This will go in a closet soon and serve my music and my videos and backup my Windows PC’s here at Chaos Central. ...