Monthly Archives: December 2005

Back Home

I got back home from San Diego last night. I had a miserable flight because of the tail end of a cold. I coughed, snuffled, and sneezed my way through the flight.

I didn’t get to enjoy the nice weather in San Diego because of the cold. I didn’t do much while I [...]

Rebuilding Fedora DVD

I am going home to San Diego tomorrow. One of the things I do every Christmas is upgrade my Dad’s computer to the newest version of Fedora. However, FC4 has been out for six months so there is a whole pile of updates. Instead of downloading all the updates after the upgrade, [...]

Bluetooth HotSync with Linux

It turned out to be really easy to do Bluetooth HotSync from my Treo 650 to my Fedora Core Linux box.

On the Linux box:

service bluetooth start service dund start

Create the /etc/ppp/peers/dun file:

115200 192.168.2.15:192.168.2.16 local ms-dns [...]

Mobile Blogging

This was posted with mo:Blog, a blog client for PalmOS. It supports the blogger, metaWeblog, and MovableType APIs. The MovableType API is supposed to work best with Typo.

Got Typo Working

I got Typo working as I want it. The solution was adding a line to config/environment.rb to tell it to make all the links relative. I didn’t need the new strip-request-uri parameter for lighttpd.

ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = “/blog”

Then I setup up the proxying. This was done through webmin but the directives produced were:

ProxyPass /blog [...]