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ThoughtMatrix

// December 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // General, SysAdmin

I can finally say it, I’m officially a Systems Administrator. Not the kind that tinkers around with his old *nix server in basement reassuring himself that he’s learning something not just procrastinating. But the kind that actually gets paid.

Apprentice to Senior Sysad at ThoughtMatrix, Inc.

AutoBox – More Than Plain Vanilla Torrent Downloading

// October 17th, 2010 // No Comments » // Linux, Movies & TV, Tech

Ubuntu Server Setup

Hardware You Need: Any box that runs Ubuntu server edition with respectable performance.

Software:

  • SSH
  • rtorrent
  • Samba
  • Apache

More as I find time…

Scheduled Maintenance This Weekend

// March 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // Tech

My one long year with multiple site outages and high ping response times is almost over. I’ll be moving from Dreamhost to my old host – Netfirms. I would be moving my blog and a couple of other sites so people who do stop by once in a while expect some downtime over this weekend while I’m doing this. If everything goes as planned this should be a smooth and easy transfer.

CSS3 and A Few Things I Should’ve Know Before Today

// March 7th, 2010 // No Comments » // Tech

With CSS3, which is currently under development, you don’t have to break an arm and a leg to get rounded corners. Yes I’m a big fan of rounded corners. Just include this in your css.

border-radius: 5px;

Google Chrome recognizes this out of the box. But on Firefox, which is my default browser, it doesn’t show up. A little more research gave me this.

Layout Engines used by different browsers:-

Gecko: Firefox

Webkit: Apple Safari & Google Chrome

KHTML: KDE Konqueror

Presto: Opera

So for rounded corners in Firefox just include this line in addition to the border-radius rule.

-moz-border-radius: 5px;

-webkit-border-radius: 5px;

That should take care of Firefox and the second line for webkit should take care of Safari. Frankly speaking, these are all the browsers that I really give a shit about.

The Linux Phase

// February 27th, 2010 // No Comments » // General, Linux

Hope I’m NOT going through the same phase. I tend to pacify myself by saying that I’m learning something new everyday. Even my router has custom compiled Linux now! And I have to say I’ve gone through my fair share of kernel hacking.

cautionary

From: xkcd