Archive | September, 2006

28 September 2006 ~ 2 Comments

Playing with VMWare Server

I grabbed a (free) copy of VMWare Server tonight to try it out, and so very I’m very impressed. My first test was to try to get an Ubuntu VM loaded on my Windows box…

Nice! More on this later.

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26 September 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Django Forums

If you are a Django user, you might want to check out Django Forums:
Welcome. Here you can discuss with others about the exciting new framework, Django. Registration is free and Guests are welcome as well.
Not much there at this point, but it looks like a good start. And I’m not just saying that because they [...]

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25 September 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Minimal Django install on Windows

Here’s a quick guide for a minimal Django install on Windows, as opposed to my more complex Django on Windows HOWTO from a while back.
Quoth Yasushi Masuda:
Django works on Windows. This article describes a quick setup guide for Django release 0.95 with SQLite configuration. This is handy enough for trial or learning, and functional enough [...]

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20 September 2006 ~ 23 Comments

HOWTO: Connect to Google Talk with Bitlbee

Bitlbee is an IRC gateway application that allows you to use an IRC client to chat with people on any of the major IM networks. Basically, you run Bitlbee as a daemon, and then connect to it as if it were a standard IRC server (6667/tcp). From there, you have Bitlbee log in to [...]

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19 September 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Python included in IPCop

Well this is interesting…
root@metis:~ # python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Nov 6 2005, 22:06:26)
[GCC 3.3.3] on linux2
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more…
>>>
Apparently IPCop ships with Python 2.3 installed. Why?

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