Category: Technology

I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.

Wayback Machine of Internet Archive

While looking for some new stuff to post, I was reminded that sometimes “new” is just “forgotten old”. So looked around for something that was forgotten and remembered the Wayback Machine of Internet Archive. The Wayback Machine allows one to browse through a sight as it was at some moment in time. For example, here are few old versions of http://www.leonid.maks.net just to make you feel a bit nostalgetic.

Check your favourite sites. There are few that do still remain the same though (or almost the same); and Slashdot is one of them.

Some more Vim tips

It doesn’t matter how long you use Vim, you still don’t know all of it. But you still wish to know all of it. So, here is a link to yet another guy who is learning and wants to learn. He offers some of his knowledge too.

In his own words:

David Rayner (zzapper) 15 Years of Vi + 3 years of Vim and still learning

Switches do die

That NoName 100 Mbps switch that I was using for my internal network has strangely died today. I’ve experienced problems with it before, but it was different all the time. I always had a hub as a temporary backup solution, but I gave it away some time ago. Thanks to my brother, I now have a brand new 3Com 100Mbps switch. It is only 5 ports instead of 8 ports of the dead one, but it should be enough. I have only 3 ports occupied now, so there are another 2 for my guests.

The funny coincidence is that two days ago I had to repeat three times that network administration is not my biggest interest. :)

Migrating from Microsoft Access to MySQL

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Many people are migrating still migrating from Microsoft Access to MySQL. I came across a freeware program that can simplify the process. It can migrated all database structure, data, and meta data (indexes, etc). Download links and screenshots are here.

If all that stops you now is your ASP code, then you can grab a copy of ASP2PHP and covert it to PHP easily. Free software is really great. Open source software is even better. :)