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Monthly Archives April 2010

Great pictures

If you don’t already know APOD (Astronomy Picture Of The Day), go check it out now: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod - there’s a new picture every day, with explanations from professionals. Many of the pics are just spectacularly beautiful even if you don’t know anything about space or science or any of that difficult stuff. For example, check out [...]

| Posted 22 April 2010 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

Why be clear when you can be confusing?

I’m a long time user of virtual machines, and I’ve grown to like Microsoft Virtual PC – it’s not the greatest, but it seems to just work and is quite easy so why not. Recently I had to look for support of USB devices, and after a bit of searching I was baffled – this [...]

| Posted 19 April 2010 | Antti | Old crow whining | Programming | Comments Off |

Installing Apache

Ever tried to install Apache and got a funky error message saying something along the lines of “cannot bind to 0.0.0.0:80″? Here’s a quick tip that should be more than 80% accurate: quit Skype before installing Apache. You see, Skype uses port 80 by default for it’s connections. It’s a lame ass trick to get [...]

| Posted 14 April 2010 | Antti | Programming | Comments Off |

Development blog

Oh, btw, if you’re using any of my software – Skuuppi, Toimari or Docman – you might want to check out my development blog at http://blogi.bluerose.fi . It’s all in Finnish, but if you can handle that you may find some interesting tidbits there every now and then. I’m not writing to it every day, [...]

| Posted 08 April 2010 | Antti | Programming | Comments Off |

Maybe there’s a replacement keyboard available?

A friend (thanks Jukka) suggested that maybe there are aftermarket keyboards available for the Thinkpad I have, where they Ctrl+Fn keys are swapped. A great idea! I did some googling, but so far haven’t found anything, so here’s a cry for help: if anyone knows of such thing existing, please, PLEASE let me know. If [...]

| Posted 08 April 2010 | Antti | Old crow whining | Comments Off |