You may have seen in my previous post about EyeOS that I tried many things to get time in sync on the virtual OS. It was drifting lots of time and after a few hours it was an hour behind. Google tells me this is quite common but I …

Where to find them? Where are some good second hand shops, new book shops, any tips on buying from the Internet. Number 1: the library. The library system here in Finland is actually quite awesome. You can go to their website and search and reserve books (costs 50c this year …

Hi! If your webhost is running in php safemode then you may run into some issues, for example you cannot do the upgrade of WP automagically via the admin interface and neither can you upgrade plugins manually, which is a hazzle. To do the upgrade follow this guide: http://codex …

Warning, this article may contains spoilers (I am trying to be sublime about them though) and have written them in white text just to be on the safe side. Terminology According to Wikipedia these books are in these subgenres: High Fantasy - lots of fantasy stuff going on - like magic and …

See my previous post for how to install it. A couple of days later and the time is still in synch. When I logged on there was a pop-up saying there were some updates. Put in root password and you get to see which are updates, the ones with a …

Test with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Download: Sign up for an evaulation on https://access.redhat.com/downloads/ rhel-server-5.6-x86_64-disc1.iso VMWare Workstation does find this in "easy install". Not doing that this time. 20GBdisk (default) and 1552MB RAM (default 1024MB) install in either graphical or text mode, going …

As I will soon be getting some income again, we thought this might be a good time to get a video game console. We do like the look of PS3 (Gran Turismo 5, NHL, etc). A bit pricey though. And then there's also all this negative news I keep on …

PuTTY is a terminal client, it does telnet, raw, serial, ssh, rlogin. I've only ever used telnet, raw, serial and ssh. The normal client can be downloaded from http://www.putty.nl But, maybe you want to make PuTTY prettier? Like this?: putty pretty Well, there are a couple of …

Walked through a peaceful and frosty Helsinki today, when we stumbled on the Boulevard we were showered in candy and various songs on the theme 'we are the best'! Turns out this is a tradition, the to be graduates celebrate last school day in 'Gymnasium' the rest of the semester …

Awaiting job confirmation then I will have more lovely things to write about! All depends on the NDA I may have to sign :s It is possible to find a job in Finland if you don't know the local language. Just takes persistence.