Vodafone Australia Mobile Broadband - On Linux
What it takes to get a Vodafone Australia prepaid mobile broadband connection working on Linux.
About Category "Unix"
Unix articles are about the various "flavours" of Unix - Linux, Solaris, BSD, AIX and friends.
Smiffy is a Unix veteran and had been working with it for a few years before he saw his first Microsoft operating system.
All Change on the Desktop (Again)
Smiffy starts preparing to migrate to a new Linux distribution. This article explains how and why.
Audience:
developers; those interested in using Linux on the desktop; those considering virtualising various desktop operating systems;
Published:
Saturday, 31st January 2009;last updated on Sunday, 1st February 2009
sql-o-matic
This is about the fourth generation of this programme that I have been using over the last few years to generate SQL and Perl code based on a MySQL database schema. The idea behind this is much repetitive coding can be eliminated - the ouput of this programme can be tweaked/corrected and then cut and pasted into an application.
Audience:
Perl coders
Published:
Tuesday, 16th September 2008VMware - No Developer Should Be Without It
After some ten years since being told about the joys of VMware virtualisation, Smiffy finally gives it a go and wonders how he ever coped before.
Audience:
Anyone who has to work with more than one operating system.
Published:
Monday, 31st March 2008Sun to buy MySQL
Sun Microsystems announces that it is going to buy MySQL AB. That's rather exciting.
Audience:
IT industry, users of Sun and MySQL products.
Published:
Friday, 18th January 2008;last updated on Sunday, 10th February 2008
Perl 5.10 Now Available
Smiffy rejoices at the announcement that Perl 5.10 has been released and finally has a switch statement.
Published:
Thursday, 20th December 2007SmiffyCalc
A command-line calculator, written in Perl, SmiffyCalc offers persistence between sessions. This is a step-up from doing calculations from the command line using perl -e
Published:
Thursday, 29th March 2007;last updated on Wednesday, 17th September 2008
I Love My Linodes Even More
Linode virtual hosting gets a major upgrade - double of everything for the same price.
Published:
Saturday, 10th March 2007I Love My Linodes
Smiffy re-evaluates and re-builds his hosting infrastructure, using Linode virtual servers.
Published:
Thursday, 8th February 2007;last updated on Saturday, 10th March 2007
Andruil - the Blade Reforged
Smiffy finally despairs of running Gentoo Linux on Narsil (the Blade that was broken), his SunBlade, and reforges it as Andruil, courtesy of Solaris 10.
Published:
Thursday, 26th October 2006;last updated on Saturday, 10th March 2007
