Archive for April 16th, 2006
Two-torials
First off the bat is a very nice visual Vim tutorial, made of several images that point you to various functions and keys in the Vim (Vi IMproved) text editor.
Also, All about Linux gives a once-over guide to compiling source code using GCC (the GNU Compiler Collection). Keep in mind that it’s not the usual “how to compile source code in Linux” which usually revolves around the ./configure-make-make install holy trinity, but a guide to actually running the C/C++ free (as in beer recipe) code compilers. make is a different GNU utility which creates a script that configures and utilised the system’s compiler (Usually in GNU/Linux, a GCC one).
This is your webserver, this is your webserver on MS
Quite a fun post on a blog called “Treat Chaos” showing a map/diagram of system calls that occur when a web server serves up a single page of html with a single picture. One of them is Apache on Linux, the other is Microsoft’s IIS. Hilarity ensues.
Hollowood honors the wrong Pooh
A quick one, The Hollowood stars walk of shame has decided to merit Disney’s 40+ year abuse of the A.A.Milne classic by awarding their flawed, infantile and distorted version of Winnie the Pooh with a broadwalk star. Yeech.
