Archive for 2006

November 3, 2006

I mentioned that statement at work a couple of months ago. A co-worker looked up and said, “Please don’t say that.” Well, it’s true. With the recent housing boom in Abbotsford, we’ve had explosive population growth. With people come vehicles. With vehicles come traffic. With traffic comes congestion. Congestion leads to frustrated drivers. Frustrated drivers [...]

October 29, 2006

On October 26, the Ubuntu team released a new version of Ubuntu, 6.10 (aka Edgy). I waited a couple of days for them to work out any last minute bugs, and decided to proceed with the upgrade today. In the Ubuntu 6.10 / Edgy release notes, Ubuntu recommends the following procedure to upgrade from Dapper [...]

October 25, 2006

I just got back from the CIS mentorship meeting a couple of hours ago. It went well, but I must admit I felt a bit out of place being the youngest person there. Nevertheless, it was a good opportunity to meet everyone involved in the program, especially after communicating via e-mail for a couple of [...]

October 13, 2006

It’s been crunch time at work. That implies 100% dedication to work, late working hours and excessive coffee intake. Tim Horton’s and Starbucks ought to have frequent drinker cards. In all, it’s been a rough three weeks, but I guess I’m content with the outcome of my latest creation. I won’t disclose it here for [...]

September 22, 2006

…to be a mentor! It appears that I am one of four (that I know of) alumni invited to mentor UCFV CIS students. My responsibilities will entail helping students set long-term career goals and short-term learning objectives, among many other things. UCFV wants to provide educational and professional development opportunities for young professionals entering the [...]

September 20, 2006

Once I had Ubuntu Server 6.06.1 installed on my new web server, I quickly realized it needed several changes before I could put it online. Hence, this is the first installment in a series of blog entries to help others configure their systems. If you installed from a CD-ROM and have a working network connection [...]

September 12, 2006

My web server was down for most of yesterday, for reasons out of my control. I shelled in only to see one error message upon restarting the Apache web service: Segmentation fault. I checked the last few lines of Apache’s error_log only to see many more errors related to the same problem. It’s one of [...]