By epb on November 15, 2010
I got my CherryPad America toward the end of October. It’s a low-end tablet, comparable to the ones you can now find at WalMart and KMart. I bought mine primarily to function as an e-reader, and quickly found that it had impressive video codec support and could do more than I was expecting out of [...]
Posted in linux | Tagged android, CherryPad
By epb on June 23, 2010
I have a sizable collection of music, so sizable in fact that I can’t store the full collection on any portal media. Since I only use Windows to play video games, I use Rhythmbox to manage my music and found myself in need of a way to sync to a USB thumbdrive. Now, the issue [...]
Posted in linux | Tagged linux, mp3, music
By epb on March 12, 2010
You can do quite a bit of unorthodox stuff with PHP. If you head over to epbsoft.com, you’ll find several flash coloring sheets I made with PHP, not Flash. (Sort of anyway.) I make them by first creating specially formatted SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files and feeding them to a PHP script that writes ActionScript [...]
Posted in linux, php | Tagged actionscript, flash, php
By epb on March 3, 2010
I might take a look at installing MongoDB on my server. I like the idea of a document-driven, NoSQL database, especially after working with relational SQL databases for years, and MongoDB looks interesting. You can read more about it in Developing scalable PHP Applications using Mongo DB. What caught my interest is how flexible using [...]
Posted in linux, php | Tagged php, rambling
By epb on January 17, 2010
Let’s say you have a VHD file you’d like to access while in Linux without attaching it to a Virtual Machine. There are many reasons you might like to do this, but it’s not immediately obvious how to do so with Linux. There are two ways I know of: You can use vmware-mount provided by [...]
Posted in linux | Tagged fuse, linux, mounting, vhd