Category: Computing

  • The new XDA Atom

    cNet Asia is reporting on a new HTC PDA (HTC is the OEM manufacturer of famous PDAs sold under different names, such as XDA, MDA or Qtek. See XDA Developers for more info) The smal form-factor of the current XDA Mini fails to achieve the same level of mobile connectivity as its big counterparts like…

  • Microsoft fixes GAIM GNU/Linux MSN Client

    Well, pigs do fly. What does a Microsoft employee have to do to get MSN Messenger working on their Linux desktops? Fix the bugs in GAIM Messenger of course! Thats what Bill Hilf, Microsoft’s Linux Lab Manager, did when he and his team had a ‘real’ need for MSN via HTTP under Linux. And, because…

  • DirectAdmin to cPanel : a partial BASH solution

    I’m one of those who spent hours moving from DirectAdmin to cPanel, and in the meantime I’ve developed a couple of usefull tools to help me do it. For the sanity of everyone ever trying to achieve this, forget googling because there is no tool available ATM. No one has ever started a script simply…

  • Qosmio G20

    I never had a wishlist, but if I ever start one this litle beautiful girl will be on top: Qosmio G20 Take a mix of Apple design, two SATA 100Gb disks with RAID0, the best in processing power available (including a GEForce 6600 PCIx16 with 128ram), the best TFT I have ever seen with in-built…

  • Server-side redirection (a.k.a. tunneling) with PHP

    Some web applications, like my own cPanel and Web Mail, use non-standard tcp ports. Usually this is because they are part of a software package that runs alongside Apache but does not use it to serve the pages. Problem is many corporate and university firewalls do not allow access to ports such as 2095 and…