Search engine wars inside your computer

March 27, 2005

This post is not about the likes of google desktop search. This is about building your own search engine. There are plenty of software freely available that let you do this quite easily. Out of these programs mnogosearch and aspseek...
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Rad Upload 2.02

March 23, 2005

Released version 2.02 of Rad Upload last week. This is primarily a bug fix release. When version 2.00 was published we added a lot of different features, with the ability to resize images as they are being uploaded being the...
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Rad File Manager

March 20, 2005

Three months ago, while I was struggling with a busted hard disk, mother board stew and a fedora upgrade, Rad Inks released a new product. I never blogged about this product and since the saying is 'better late than never',...
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phpBB2

March 18, 2005

This is another residual post from my study of BB and CMS a few weeks back. phpBB2 is something that I installed on one of my other websites about two years ago. I picked it not because I had a...
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postgres and case insensitive column names.

March 17, 2005

One of the issues that I overlooked when converting the Rad User Manager, from mysql to postgresql is the fact that postgresql squashes all column names to lowercase. Does it matter? it does if you try to fetch associative arrays....
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xoops

March 16, 2005

This is a residual post from my investigation of CMS and message boards a few weeks ago. Like some of the other software that I looked at during those days xoops also insists on gathering the password in a textfield...
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the mysql (or my$ql) license debate.

March 13, 2005

I have written a few times in the past about mysql the license fiasco. Because of the seeds of confusion sawn by mysql themselves, there has been a slight but noticable shift from mysql to postgresql. I have contibuted my...
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Another Anniversary.

March 12, 2005

Another anniversary has gone unnoticed. This blog is now an year old. The first entry is dated 27 February 2004. My stats tell me I now have 300 entries, in fact yesterday's post was the three hundredth. The blog at...
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GPRS and the 6630

March 11, 2005

I don't know why I ever bothered with setting up GPRS easy connect. Setting up a ppp connection with your 6630 (or any other GPRS phone for that matter) is rediculously easy - with or with out easy connect. There...
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apache manual and content negotiations

March 8, 2005

Grr, setting up content negotiaion for the apache manual is a pain. Well it really isn't but when I set up apache on my computer I was in a bit of a rush thanks to a ill fated FC3 upgrade,...
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2 years for Rad Inks

March 7, 2005

Yesterday marked the second birthday of Rad Inks. It's not been an easy two years but it was thoroughly enjoyable, a time of ups and downs, thankfully it was mostly ups. When you start a software company without any external...
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6630 and GPRS easy connect woes

March 5, 2005

Configuring PPPD is a pain. The last few times I had to set up a GPRS connection on linux, GPRS easy connect came in very handy because it can write the chat scripts for you. Unfortunately the Nokia 6630 is...
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adwords quality detoriates.

March 4, 2005

It seems that the quality of the sites that are been enlisted on the adsense network seems to detoriate on a daily basis. As result adwords advertisers (whose ads are displayed on google search and adsense sites) are getting a...
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6630 first impressions.

March 2, 2005

The camera of my 6630 is a bit disappointing, though it is billed as being 1.3 mega pixel it's video recorder is only 176 pixels wide. However when using it for still photography you can go upto 1024px. The biggest...
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audacity wxWindows and FC3

March 1, 2005

Sound is something that I have always had trouble with on linux. It seems Red Hat goes out of their way to make it difficult for you to make use of your speaker. Upgrading to to 2.6 kernels on Red...
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