Behind the scenes, I’ve been struggling to learn Linux. I want to move away from Microsoft WinXP toward open source Linux software.
First I tried openSUSE v10.2 but the transfer speeds were too slow because they didn’t have a server in Vietnam, only China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Australia. However, Ubuntu has […]
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Mar
2007
2
First Post from AMD 64×2 System Running Ubuntu 6.1 [Linux]
Published by The Alchemist? 1 year, 5 months ago in Vietnam, Computer and Blog/Website. 2 CommentsDec
2006
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Mai’s Dec 18th Birthday
Published by The Alchemist? 1 year, 8 months ago in Vietnam and Blog/Website. 4 CommentsMegan counted the days until Mai’s birthday and was adamant about having cake and ice cream. We had a great time and Megan is now looking forward to Christmas, but she still is wondering how Santa Claus is going to get into the house because it doesn’t have a chimney nor fireplace.
Mai had a […]
Sep
2006
10
‘Random Recent Photo’ Notes
Published by The Alchemist? 1 year, 11 months ago in Blog/Website. ClosedMoving your cursor in the area over or around the photo will display the photo until you move your mouse cursor away from the gallery area.
Clicking on the photo will take you to a Gallery2 page which displays a much larger image. On this page you can change the image size, view a slideshow […]
Sep
2006
9
My STUPIDITY almost makes me cry!
Published by The Alchemist? 1 year, 11 months ago in Vietnam, Computer and Blog/Website. 1 CommentThe motherboard and CPU which I brought here from the US is dead! Killed by NOT being grounded! …. I then told Mai how my stupidity had ruined $200-$300 of my computer equipment — motherboard, CPU and probably memory. I almost cried from my stupidity.
Sep
2006
9
Success, I finally did it! Come take a look!
Published by The Alchemist? 1 year, 11 months ago in Computer, This'n'That and Blog/Website. ClosedI finally succeeded in:
- being able to choose which pictures I want to include/exclude from the sidebar photo sideshow.
- adding a caption below the picture which uses the EXIF info stored in the picture (JPG) itself.
Aug
2006
24
Can You Weather the Weather?
Published by The Alchemist? 2 years ago in Blog/Website. ClosedSpent much of yesterday trying out different weather add-ins to WordPress.
One program used governmental weather gathered data, however, the information for Hue, Vietnam seemed to be only for 5pm each day. Another add-in only put you on the sponsor’s webpage and the third addin used Weather.com’s SOAP feed which was regularly updated and included […]
Aug
2006
22
PHP, Ruby and other programming paradoxes.
Published by The Alchemist? 2 years ago in Computer and Blog/Website. ClosedI’ve been really struggling with PHP. Yesterday I widgetized my fist WordPress plug-in. If you look at the sidebar (the right side of the front page), you will see a slideshow on the right sidebar.
I really didn’t do much: found another guy’s code, copied it and did some factoring (replacements) from the original to […]
Spent much of today, Sunday, re-installing Gallery2 onto the host server and learned a few tricks.
I used their “pre-install” program with automatically downloads Gallery2 on the remote host and explodes the zip putting all the files into their respective subdirectories.
The only problem was that I started everything from the Gallery2 subdirectory which I should have […]
Aug
2006
17
Just Can’t Remember
Published by The Alchemist? 2 years ago in Computer and Blog/Website. ClosedToday I worked to choose some more pictures to upload onto the website. I worked several hours choosing and tweaking the photos and started to upload the pictures.
In the process I needed to enter my username and password, so I typed in what I thought it was. It wasn’t and I tried several […]
Aug
2006
15
‘Puter Problems
Published by The Alchemist? 2 years ago in Vietnam, Computer and Blog/Website. ClosedI brought the motherboard, video card, disk drives, etc from one of my desktop computers to Vietnam. I had the case and the monitor from when we were here in 2001-2002. It’s set on my computer tables since we left.
I installed the motherboard and other components into the case and nothing worked. […]
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