Me singing Shape of my heart – Sting

The day before the apple tablet

While everybody’s concentrating on the whole news thing, gaming and a whole lot of fake pictures and videos that surfaced on the internet in the last few weeks as we where getting closer and closer to tomorrow’s event, few remain open minded about what could be… Personally, I’m not sure if I should wait for the official video from Apple or refresh the hell out of Engadget’s live blogging page for the event. Either way, I had absolutely no clue why the tablet is going to be innovative, how can it crash a industry and why would everybody accept it.

Now, because I saw a short video, I understand why… I just loved the idea in the video and really really want to work like that on my computer. So if we’re going to kill the mouse and surface a new revolutionary device, this is what I think will be the closest idea to it:

I’m betting it’s going to be something very similar, only more organised, running a more advanced iPhone OS version,  prettier and evolved(because it will be done by apple).

Pigeons eating people food

Horses march “ritual” in one of the gates at Alba Iulia, Romania

Spooky cargo train (video)

21b’s HP 6720 completely disassembled

Switching to Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0

Temporarely or for good? Time will tell. I’m going to be short on this and just not here how I Install it and give feedback with updates.

So I went to http://www.microsoft.com/web/Downloads/platform.aspx and downloaded it.. Install was very simple (until I got to the configurations point). A lot of options there:

Then I went to http://localhost and Bum! .. it is there…

More updates to come

Update:

Terrible, terrible experience. It was working, yes… BOOM… but the same BOOM came across me when I tried to do anything with it.

When WPI was finished, because I selected wordpress it helped me set up wordpress in 2 steps… Creating the database, setting the name.. etc…

When that was done the crying began… Good thing that I had clean url module installed or I would have had trouble with that too…

Let’s begin:

Let’s start with permissions. I had no permissions of reading and writing for the server. Something that had to be configured trough a lot of clicks and configuring that  (compared to linux where you just chmod 755 /path -R

After that… I said to myself….. Ok.. I’ve installed a normal wordpress blog on a path I just wanted to test it on… Let me make (“the mistake of creating”) a new installation manually. BOOM! no database available.. need a new one..

I had no easy way to manage the database and create other databases… because I did not install the SQL server manager so… I downloaded and installed phpmyadmin (the GOD database manager).. good thing that worked.. So I created a database.. and fwew… it worked…

Continuing… I went to install a theme as I was supposed to work on one at the moment… and as it should normally do, it showed me the ftp page.. but.. wait.. What’s my ftp user and password…. owwwwww. So I went to configure the IIS so that it does not need ftp user and password… (took me 10 minutes.. but it helped)

Next, the inevitable… My external fixed IP from my router.. was not showing the IIS server.. It just did not work. Had to go into the IIS manager and search for about 1 hour and a half, google and customize that one too…

Then, everything was slower than usual… Then, it was even slower. Sometimes incredibly slow. What is going on? I remembered I installed some server caching. Maybe that was the problem? (I think NOT! .. because after I disabled that… and a bunch of other modules…. it was still slow as hell)

The end?

The installation took about 20 minutes and the configuration about 4-6 hours.So even if you know what to do, it takes 10 times longer than working with XAMPP or WAMPP …

Because with XAMPP (xampp lite) you download a 28 mb installer that has 160 mb installed (that’s the installer size of everything from the WPI if you look at the pictures above). then you install it in about 5 minutes and everything else just works. You have phpmyadmin installed along with the latest php and mysql and you can start working because it’s already configured.

I really, really want to race with a php windows developer that uses WPI.. see who get’s to install, by hand, from scratch… 2 instances of wordpress that will also work from a external IP based on a router inside a network… see who finishes first

New Direction

Did not write in a really long time… but I’m back and going to post more and write less.Boy do I have a lot of categories…

Here’s what I’ve been up to lately:

1. I’ve come to realise the power and beauty of wordpress. Really love it and have great ideas for it
2. appchain.com is at 300 uniques / day.. not very proud but I know how to make it bigger .. the question is do I want to? Why this question? because:
3. I’m working on ThemeForest now… have a theme there (Dark Days) .. HTML theme .. 13 purchases so far and working on something new…
4. Submitted my CV to Automattic 3 days ago but did not receive any answer yet… would love to work on wordpress with these guys and gals but I guess it’s up to them if they want me (their loss )
5. I’ve been learning more how to make beautiful’er designs

I know at this point nobody cares (and I do meen nobody)… but this post is for a future reference

What is this new direction?

Well, cy21.wordpress.com is going to be my full personal blog…. I will be uploading here more photos and videos (as posts) and will be writing my frustrations, achievements and my sorrows… Because I can , I will love to do this and I know it will help me remember, love to write and brag about stuff i do and places I go to…

See you soon

Monitor your server CPU in linux

How to monitor how much of your cpu is in use?

quick and easy:

iostat -xtc 1 3

where iostat is the command -xtc is a option 1 is number of seconds to wait untill next refresh and 3 is number of refreshes.

How to monitor your coolers and cpu and system temperature ?

sensors

Using the “sensors” application . (install with sudo apt-get install sensors)

Cheers!

How to restrict shell access for linux users

Well, actually, i’m going to show you how to allow it for certain users…
First what you need to do is edit the ssh config file….

sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

And then you add this line:

AllowUsers root user1 user2 user3

then you reset your ssh server:

sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart

And voila!

Any questions?