Back to school today. Oh goody.

I’ve started mirroring my Windows Apache installation to my Linux one (I dual boot), because Linux is so much better as a server platform than Windows XP. To be fair, I haven’t used Windows Server 2003/IIS as a web server, basically because I can’t afford it (take note Microsoft: young people are going Apache because they can). So, hopefully I can build a better platform for my test web server. I do like the extra Unix-based security and the ability to do cool stuff like sendmail and easily use Perl (I tried and failed to install ActivePerl for Windows – hey an occasion where Linux has been an easier platform to install something on than Windows).

Another note to Microsoft: ASP(X) is not an easy platform for young people to experiment with, because of its cost to setup. I don’t have the money to buy Win Server 2K3 and therefore I can’t use ASP(X) (unless I jump through hoops like installing mod_perl for Apache, then do this and that – it’s more effort than it’s worth).

Wow, what an essay. See you all tomorrow.

PS: My Linux uptime (it sucks, I know).

Hi.

Feeling less work-stressed now that I have made a bit more progress with French and Media Studies. Bit of a drama this morning, the gateway’s reset button might have been pressed, so all the internet settings were gone, so had to scramble for a backup of them. Found the backup and restored it, thankfully.

Had a response to my question on the Dhost forums, and now I can start building the photo uploading application next week. Also, installed the Uptime Project last night, so you can see how long my XP installation is running.

Forgot to post this: take a look at my themed XP box with Longhorn and Tiger themes:

Longhorn

Tiger

Pretty cool, huh?

I have given up on work after churning out about 200 words in 4 hours (yes, that bad). Neither am I going to do any dev projects, I don’t have the brainpower left. I might get onto the Buttons improvements next week (it is half term), but don’t expect any major improvements for next week.

Wow, I don’t know why I haven’t played with blogs before, but here I am now. Being a webnerd should mean I should be the first to play with these new technologies. Anyway…

It’s Saturday, I have loads of work to do and I want to also do some more stuff on my latest project, our Young Enterprise company site www.buttons.co.nr, but I have too much work to do.

In case you’re wondering, it’s French, German and Media Studies this weekend.

I haven’t had a chance to update my main site www.hybridweb.co.nr, so it’s still using my old non-MySQL news system which, frankly, sucks compared to the Buttons system.

Well, hope to see you again soon, on Peter’s Webdev Blog.