Monthly Archives: June 2006

Bluprints 0.1

Posted on June 21, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I finally got fed up with Tiles and wrote something new. Naymz had a bunch of random exceptions in the logs and almost all of them were caused by Tiles. I started digging and eventually just got mad at the … Continue reading →

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Naymz has launched!

Posted on June 13, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

For those that don’t know what I’ve been up to for the past month or so, the site I’ve been working on has launched. The site is located at https://www.naymz.com. I’ll give a quick run down of what we do … Continue reading →

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External monitor (VGA output) on my Dell 700m with Ubuntu

Posted on June 6, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I can’t recall if I already posted this, but I did manage to get the VGA output working in order to use a external monitor or projector for my Dell 700m on Ubuntu. For this laptop the Fn-F8 key doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Domain DNS

Posted on June 6, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I just tried to setup DomainDNS for the Naymz.com DNS and found out after a number of headaches that this service is completely dead. There 7 lookup servers aren’t contactable on port 53. So, in case anyone is wondering, http://domaindns.com … Continue reading →

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Setting a root password in Ubuntu

Posted on June 4, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

This is a response to a comment about Ubuntu that is on this blog entry. The person was having trouble setting a root password. This is really simple, but not really needed for almost everything since Ubuntu gives your user … Continue reading →

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