Virtualisation to the rescue

2007-08-18

QEMU

Checking out how webpages look in different browsers can be a pain since not all of them might be supported on your webdevelopment-platform (Ubuntu, in my case).

Enter QEMU - TO SAVE THE DA-AY! Using QEMU you will be able to install an other operating system that runs like a program in you current OS. QEMU is completely open source and released under the terms of the GPL (the Gnu General Public Licence).

When everything has been set up and your running your guest-os it is time to start communicating with it. Previously I used ftp between the two oses but it proved a clumsy solution. One can set up a samba server and simply share the directory where you have all your stuff and connect to that samba-share from your guest-os (Windows XP in my case).

There is a built-in feature of QEMU that supposedly gives you the same functionality without all the hassle of setting up a windows-network but I was never able to make it work though. Instead I just shared the directorys using samba, made the necessary tweaks to "/etc/samba/smb.conf" and using windows explorer simply browsed the shares to find it.

I haven't been able to make apple's Safari browser run under QEMU yet but hey - you can't have everything ;^)

add header info

2007-08-18

Built for webstandards

I have taken care to build this site according to the current web-standards laid out by the w3c (the World Wide Web Consortium)

Even-though the site should work with all of the slightly bigger browsers, I did use Firefox 2 when building it. Naturally it works best in Firefox.

(This website)

About this site

2007-08-18

davis_weblog

(I need something to hack at)

well... obviously this is my own personal page. I felt that I wanted a presence on the internet and voila - here we are.

I used to have CSS-menus on top from Steve Gibson's css-menu project, designed as a antidote for the "evil" java-script menus.

Other niceties of his are: "Shields UP!" and "SpinRite". "Shields UP!" will scan your computer for open ports and "SpinRite" seems to be the best there is for recovering data from a broken harddrive.

I usually like to spend my Fridays listening to the security now! podcast/netcast with Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson. Even though most of the topics covered are strictly about windows, there is generally something there for everybody.

Edit MACroS

2006-12-05

text-editor

(Edit MACroS)

Emacs is a text-editor originally written by rms (Richard M. Stallman founder of the GNU). So... yes the site is handcrafted.

Even after trying other text editors such as Gedit and Kwrite I still find myself longing for emacs. A part of it being the fact that Emacs uses the readline keystrokes that, after a little bit of practice, sit better with me than the now standard Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.

The syntax highlighting and advanced search functions make it an easy task to roam about the textfiles.

The Gnu Image Manipulation Program

2006-12-05

The GIMP

This site was written using the gimp, emacs and lately qemu. The gimp stands for the Gnu Image Manipulation Program and have been used for all graphics on this page.