http://dennistt.net Dennis Tsang's little corner on the big internet! Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:53:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the past few months I've been playing around with a VPS purchased from Linode (more about Linode may be blogged about at a later date). While setting things up I've come across many tutorials about various things, and I've decided to create a Linux category here just so ... http://dennistt.net/2008/08/26/htop-an-improved-top/ I'm amazed at the easiness of the WordPress upgrade system.  The "three step upgrade" really lives up to its name; I upgraded from quite an old version of WordPress and I had no problems with the upgrade at all.  However, I wish the same could be said about themes.  As ... http://dennistt.net/2008/08/09/wordpress-upgraded/ Ever since MyBB had a facility to create database backups, we have had questions on why there wasn't a similar facility to import backups.  The following reasons were taken into account while designing this feature: 1) Security: Reason: If a user somehow managed to get into an administrative account with the ... http://dennistt.net/2008/08/06/mybb-database-import/ We released MyBB 1.4 to the masses this weekend.  I wouldn't say it's "overdue" but it's about time we had this release out the door.  We still haven't managed to get the "self-fix" module working for MyBB to fix itself, so as usual support threads are pouring into the MyBB ... http://dennistt.net/2008/08/03/mybb-14-released/ Ok something needs to be done to my site.  Currently between work, MyBB, and other commitments I have found very little time to work on this.  I have temporarily closed the forum section down (except for the plugins which are still available for download) until my new site is up. Also, ... http://dennistt.net/2008/03/10/a-wreck/ "IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet" Sounds like something Microsoft would name the next version of Internet Explorer?  Well it was part of the list of possible names that Microsoft could have named IE8, but fortunately the team at Microsoft sided with sanity and chose ... http://dennistt.net/2007/12/06/ie-desktop-online-web-browser-live-professional-ultimate-edition-for-the-internet/ Okay so I was in my economics lecture peacefully taking notes on an interesting lecture about oligopoly by Professor Gateman as some "delinquent" (as Gateman calls them) walks in late and finds a friend who happened to be sitting on one of the seats on my row and settles down ... http://dennistt.net/2007/11/16/cheerios-and-lectures-dont-mix/ I just got this email today: :: Schmap: Vancouver Photo Short-list Hi Dennis, I am writing to let you know that one of your photos has been short-listed for inclusion in the fourth edition of our Schmap Vancouver Guide, to be published mid-November 2007. http://www.schmap.com/ (URL snipped) Clicking this link will take you to a ... http://dennistt.net/2007/11/06/schmap-vancouver-photo-short-listed/ I've had a Gmail account since September 7th, 2004 and currently have 13096 conversations (and counting) in my "All Mail" box using up roughly 1GB of space.  One of my first suggestions to the Gmail team was IMAP, and I am glad to see that it has finally made its ... http://dennistt.net/2007/11/02/gmail-pop-and-now-imap/ In the next few weeks I'm planning on moving off of Wordpress onto my self-coded blog. Along with it will be a new theme. Here is a sneak preview :) This will be version 4 of DennisTT.Net :) http://dennistt.net/2007/09/19/a-new-dennisttnet-is-coming-to-town/