http://www.cocoageek.com The Cocoa Geek Blog Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:35:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 12 months ago i used my Mac. Only my Mac. I find it interesting how I am now shifting further and further away from the platform towards linux. Ever since i hooked my monitor up to my linux box for work reasons I have been using it more and more ... http://www.cocoageek.com/2008/12/shifting-sands/ Ever since i started this blog i have been using Apache2 as the webserver and i have been quite happy with it, however recently i have noticed that it uses an insane amount of RAM. I have 240Meg of ram on this VPS and almost all of it was eaten ... http://www.cocoageek.com/2008/11/lighttpd/ The new version of Ubuntu is out now - so a great time for everybody to try linux. It really is a top-notch distro and increadably easy to configure. Go fo it. http://www.cocoageek.com/2008/10/ubuntu-810/ The new version of Ubuntu is coming in a couple of weeks, and since it has now entered beta phase i decided i would upgrade my installation of Hardy Heron. The installation is very easy just requiring the command: sudo update-manager -d The installation is remarkably quick, installing all the updated packages. ... http://www.cocoageek.com/2008/10/intrepid-ibex/ I have (over the last couple of days) shifted the server on which cocoageek.com is hosted, this has meant reconfiguring the whole database and http server as well as the blog etc. This is still in process, which means some things might not be working perfectly just yet. The process ... http://www.cocoageek.com/2008/10/moving-house/ At work, attempting to port a large program from linux to Solaris i hit a snag - I successfully compiled it with the Sun C compiler in 32 bit successfully. However this needed to be ported to 64 bit. The compilation was fine all the errors were solved with relative ... http://www.cocoageek.com/2008/09/strace-truss-dtrace/ Yesterday i picked up Spore, all i can say is: what a game. I'm not a big gamer anymore - don't suppose being a mac guy i can be really, but this is superb. It is such a well thought out and fun game. I hadn't been playing for more ... http://www.cocoageek.com/2008/09/spore/ Google has developed a web browser. Lets face it no one is really surprised, there have been rumours of this for months and with the impending release of Android i don't suppose that an increased level of web integration on mobile devices and the desktop from google is any shock ... http://www.cocoageek.com/2008/09/google-chrome/ Over the weekend i compiled LLVM and the LLVM-GCC front-end on ubuntu mostly because of all the hype surrounding it at the moment. Alot of people are talking about the optimization improvements over GCC and the increase in performance it give - if all the hype is to be believed ... http://www.cocoageek.com/2008/08/llvm-gcc-benchmarks/ Well on monday night a regular band practice managed to turn into an electronic jam session, which we took some live recordings of. These are avalible for listening pleasure on music.cocoageek.com. These are performances by myself and richhoo. http://www.cocoageek.com/2008/08/slightly-esoteric-jam-session/