A fairly relaxed weekend.

[richardf8]

And productive too!

Saturday, I built a notebook I had lying around into a new web development/staging server.

The gory details:

IBM Thinkpad 380z, 233Mhz, 64M Ram, 4G HDD.
Redhat 9.0 running Apache, MySQL, PHP, and various and sundry other goodies.
Since I want the processing power for the good stuff, it does not boot to X.

It is Waaay quicker than its predecessor, and getting it going was easier than I'd planned. The only snag I ran into was with the PHP parser. It's a later version than what had been on the RH 7.2 box, and had globals turned off by default, so it wasn't parsing my code. Turned globals on (which is also the way my ISP has their PHP Parser set up) and everything was hunky dory.

Sunday, I pencilled AND inked Tuesday's strip. So much nicer than the past two weeks when I ended up inking hastily Monday night. I was able to use the dip-pen rather than the fountain pen (though I lettered with the fountain pen). It was more relaxed and deliberate than inking with the fountain pen. Inking with a dip pen has some of the characteristics of meditation. And tonight was the first time I inked without music. It was very refreshing.

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[lordrunningclam.livejournal.com]

I have a couple of old PCs that I've been wondering what to do with, I mostly use my Mac Powerbook now. I was thinking of the better appointed of the two, an 650Mhz Athlon PC, and turning it into a server. Over the weekend I was looking at a book called Linux for Dummies, which came with a copy of Red Hat Linux.

I'd already tried to set up the older PC as a network server under Windows 98. I was able to share the network drive, but never able to share the printer connected to it, which sort of pissed me off. Do you think that if I had a PC running Linux that I would be able to share a printer connected to it with the other two computers in the house, windows laptop and my Powerbook?

[richardf8]

I think so, but it will take a fair bit of work and tweaking. RH 9 is actually pretty good about providing GUI tools to do a lot of the most odious stuff, but configuring SAMBA which you will need for windows connectivity is a subtle art, especially if it is to act as a server. I haven't looked at Linux For Dummies, so I can't speak to how helpful it is, but I find my copy of the Red Hat Linux Bible serves me very well. I do refer to it often when configuring a new machine.