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First, check out the code from the Mercurial repository: Next, go into the folder and run configure: Finally, build it and install:

Today I was hanging out on G+ and I noticed that Linus Torvalds is copying me and also wants a home file server. I noticed he wants to go the other route though and wants to just buy a pre-built … Continue reading →

I want to create my own home file server. So far I’ve laid out the following. Comments, suggestions for improvement, and of criticism are welcome. First, I went to Newegg (naturally) and pieced together a micro-server with hard drives and a RAM upgrade. Here is the … Continue reading →

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 34,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this … Continue reading →

I was looking on Wikipedia at the differences between Oracle (what I use at work), MySQL (what the open source world primarily uses ), and finally PostgreSQL (what I use at home). After looking at the first link above and comparing all the features and … Continue reading →

I’m currently running Fedora 17 and last night while trying to debug some code I ran into a goofy issue. The package required that libev be installed. OK, I thought, not a problem. yum install libev-devel and I’m good to … Continue reading →

What’s the point of documenting a language if this is the best you can do: http://valadoc.org/#!api=glib-2.0/string.next_char