Author Archives: dririan

November 17, 2012
12:03 AM
by: dririan

Why I Don’t Use GPL-style “or any later version”

This post is long overdue. Quite a few people have asked me while all of the software I create does not have the “or (at your option) any later version” that the FSF seems to suggest. (I am not against … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughts

July 14, 2012
3:00 AM
by: dririan

Using boot0cfg on FreeBSD to configure the bootloader

FreeBSD has a bootloader vastly different than GRUB or LILO. The equivalent of stage1 in GRUB (which is used to locate the rest of GRUB and load it) is boot0 in FreeBSD, which is actually used to directly chainload Windows … Continue reading →

Posted in HOWTO, Information

May 1, 2012
2:36 AM
by: dririan

Switched (Back) to Apache from Cherokee – Part 2: mod_macro

In the last post, I discussed my reasoning for switching back to Apache from Cherokee. In this post, I’ll be talking about mod_macro [cri.ensmp.fr], and how it makes configuring Apache fairly easy, and making tweaks dead simple. One of the big … Continue reading →

Posted in HOWTO

April 30, 2012
6:09 PM
by: dririan

Switched (Back) to Apache from Cherokee – Part 1: Reasoning

Sadly, the current version of the Cherokee web server [cherokee-project.com] has some serious outstanding flaws. Most notably, up until recently (where it was reverted in Chrome, not fixed in Cherokee) Chrome could not submit POST forms over HTTPS. Google said in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement

March 9, 2012
10:51 PM
by: dririan

Amazon Appstore QR Code

For some reason, Amazon doesn’t give you a direct link or QR code to get the APK for their Appstore; they only will send it to you over SMS or e-mail. So, here’s a QR code to grab the APK … Continue reading →

Posted in Information

January 30, 2012
5:01 PM
by: dririan

Why RingyDingyDingy Can’t Support Gmail

The two biggest feature requests for RingyDingyDingy pre-0.5 were Gmail and Google Voice integration. My goal was to implement them both for RDD 0.5… but, unfortunately, I could only implement Google Voice integration. It seems like this is going to … Continue reading →

Posted in Information, RingyDingyDingy

January 30, 2012
4:31 PM
by: dririan

RingyDingyDingy 0.5 released!

I’ve just published RingyDingyDingy version 0.5 to the Android Market. I re-published it a few days ago after a long hiatus, and brought it back as a FOSS app. Before publicizing it, I wanted to give it some time to … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement, RingyDingyDingy

December 27, 2011
8:42 PM
by: dririan

Serving Mercurial repositories with hgweb and mercurial-server

I really like using mercurial-server [lshift.net] for hosting my Mercurial repositories. Because it uses SSH and public keys, it’s quite secure, and works well with multiple users. However, it doesn’t have public access for pulling repositories. For that reason, I … Continue reading →

Posted in HOWTO

December 26, 2011
8:27 PM
by: dririan

Hello Everyone!

After years of not having this domain (thanks to domain parkers), I finally got it back! Hopefully, I’ll be making lots of posts soon with how-to guides for advanced topics, tutorials for basic ones, and lots of other content about … Continue reading →

Posted in Meta