Archive for January, 2009

Django Forum Apps

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

I recently had to evaluate some django forum apps, and I thought I should share my findings. The general list of apps I got from here. While django-pluggables looks nice, it isn't searchable or categorised in any way that I could see, which strikes me as pretty bizzare. Sphene - This has ...

This is lies

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Two search requests on the internet website Google produce as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7823387.stm This "Harvard University academic", Alex Wissner-Gross, has also created this highly dubious service: http://www.co2stats.com/about.php CO2Stats is very smart, and is able to capture a large amount of data about your site's total energy consumption. For example, it ...

Vmware server 1.0.8 on debian etch

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

You'll want to use this patch: http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz