Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Cut over to (mt)

I have cut my hosting over to media temple (mt)

Posted by Andrew on December 23rd, 2008

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An ASUS eee PC with Debian Linux

I like Linux, but I know Red Hat, Fedora and Ubuntu a little better than Debian - bit I am keen to get myself an eee. I have been thinking about a 901 or perhaps a 1000H and wiping XP off it.
Anyway a mate has a 701 up for sale as he just got himself [...]

Posted by Andrew on November 15th, 2008

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More on Linux

Yes, I am still working through that Linux server I inherited without adequate documentation. So my next step is to find out the hardware specification of the server.
CPU info:

cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ‘model name’

Memory info:

cat /proc/meminfo
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree

Storage info:

cat /proc/partitions
hdparm -I /dev/sda

Posted by Andrew on November 12th, 2008

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Do you think you can ignore web accessibility?

I am feeling really frustrated today.
I have been interacting with some organisations here in Queensland that feel that feel that web accessibility does not apply to them.
Can I point out that:
Under section 67(1)(k) of the Disability Discrimination Act, the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Hreoc) issues guidelines for the purpose of avoiding discrimination [...]

Posted by Andrew on November 7th, 2008

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SUMO Paint

I am always tweaking images for one reason or another, sometimes for a client sometimes for me, but this looks handy…
Sumopaint is a fast, easy, simple but powerful image editing software.
Try it out here: http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint

Posted by Andrew on October 31st, 2008

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