This is a first for me; starting a kind of photo diary of the past month. Some of you who follow my blogs will know that I have Myalgic Encephalomyelitis aka Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). If you want to know more about this disabilitating disease, visit my blog ‘Life with ME/CFS‘. This disease can affect people in different ways; some people can still have a more or less normal life and go to work, while others are bedridden. Some ME/CFS patients are bedbound, some are homebound and I am more or less citybound. On an average day I can go anywhere in my hometown Ostend using my bicycle. Read more…
Pictures ME/CFS, oost, photo
This was my tryout blog and I learned a lot from it. But as I felt the need for a personal blog I decided to revitalize this blog after 6 months of inactivity. Read more…
Personal blogging, ME/CFS
I confess, I was the kind of guy who never clicked on an ad. My eyes were trained to ignore ads in all shapes and sizes to the point that I didn’t even noticed them. That changed when I added AdSense to my blog. Read more…
Varia review
Just as I was finishing my review of the beta version of Zend Server CE, Zend proudly announced the release of Zend Server and Zend Server Community Edition (CE). So I had to start all over again with a fresh installation of Zend Server CE 4.0.1. I was pleased to see that they fixed some of the quirks and bugs I had encountered in the beta version, but oddly enough they introduced some new ones too. Read more…
PHP LAMP, Linux, PHP, review, Ubuntu
Rating: 8/10
How do you build or in this case rebuild a nation ? Is there more than one way to do it ? What do you need ? How do you deal with the voices from the past (aka tradition) ? This and much more you will find out in Terry Pratchett‘s latest novel, Nation. This review contains no spoilers or at least a lot less than you will find in other reviews on forums, blogs, online bookshops and newspapers. Read more…
Books fantasy, review
Rating: 7/10
The Demonwar Saga part 1 – Rides a Dread Legion by Raymond Feist
This review does not contain any spoilers. If you haven’t read any books of Raymond Feist yet, this book is not a good place to start. Although it is the first book in a new series, The Darkwar Saga just like the other series (The Empire Trilogy, The Riftwar Saga, The Serpentwar Saga, The Riftwar Legacy, …) is part of a bigger series. I recommend reading them in a more or less chronological order. Read more…
Books fantasy, review
I only have an iPod Touch, but the software and features I will describe in this post are also valid for the iPhone. In the title I carefully avoided calling the iPod Touch an ebook reader. Yet, I do know the expression, ‘If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck’. Ebooks can be copied or uploaded to, stored on and read using the iPod Touch and iPhone, but I am still reluctant to call the iPod Touch an ebook reader. My definition also includes it being based on E-Ink/Vizplex technology that is less straining for the eyes than a computer screen. But that’s just me, if you want to stick with the duck test, that is fine too. Read more…
iPod ebook, iPod, reader
I started this blog on January, 1 2009 mostly out of curiosity. I had no prior experience with blogging, I just wanted to give it a try. Never did I expect it would be this much fun and excitement: the writing, the attention, the response, … When I activated my blog I thought of attracting a 100, maybe a 150 visitors in the first month, but I didn’t expect it would reach 1639 unique visitors. Read more…
Varia Personal, stats
Virtualization is a hot topic in ICT. How can you put this to use at home and more specifically on your Mac ? You can use it to run Windows on your Mac, but also to try out different flavors of Linux or to run a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) development server. If you have a spare recent pc you can install a baremetal hypervisor like XenServer5, but that’s a different story. If you want to install a hypervisor or virtual machine monitor on your MacBook, Mac mini or iMac, there are a number of solutions available. To name a few: VMWare, Parallels, Q and VirtualBox.
First requirement: it has to be free, free as in made freely available by the software vendor, not as in a pirated or illegal copy. So skip VMWare (unless you stick with the VMWare Player) and Parallels.
Second requirement: it must be a hypervisor project, preferably open source, with active development, user groups, forums and good documentation.
So I chose VirtualBox. For the cross-platformers among you, like myself, VirtualBox also runs on Windows, Linux and OpenSolaris and supports a large number of guest operating systems including Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris, OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
But this post will be about installing a virtual Ubuntu LAMP or web server on Mac OS X using VirtualBox. Read more…
Linux, Mac OS X, PHP, Virtualization LAMP, Linux, Mac OS X, PHP, Ubuntu, VirtualBox, Virtualization
I have been using my BeBook ebook reader for one month now, so I thought it was time for a first review. In this post I will write about the BeBook, what you can use it for, its features, possibilities, limitations and quirks and give you some advice before you buy an ebook reader. I have used a lot of its features, but not all of them and I also encountered some of the limitations and quirks. I will probably post an extra review in a couple of months when I had the time, the need or felt the desire to explore the rest of the features and possibilities. By the way, I love my BeBook. Read more…
BeBook BeBook, ebook, Hanlin v3, reader, review
