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Category: Computers

  • Mastodon setup challenges

    A few weeks back, I set up my own Mastodon instance on a VPS. Normally, it’s not too difficult, but since I already had a LAMP stack running on it, there were more obstacles to get past! I had to ultimately use Apache as a reverse proxy instead of Nginx, as Mastodon recommends. Also, by…

  • I ordered a VPS some time ago.

    Howdy, fellow readers! I’ve decided to order a VPS a few months back. That means I can host Discord bots and a lot more! In case you’re curious, here’re the specs. Nothing too fancy: I have a LAMP stack + a copy of Webmin installed on it. For now, I’m hosting a MediaWiki site on…

  • Windows 98 is my childhood OS.

    Time flies so fast. I can’t believe it’s been so long since Windows 98 was first released. I still remember how excited I was when we got our first computer sometime around the 00s. It had a Czech-language copy of Windows 98 on it. I still have an old XP-era computer in my room that…

  • Installing Red Hat Linux 6.2 in VMware Fusion

    Howdy, fellow readers! Here’s yet another tech-related blog post of mine, in which I’ll be documenting how I installed Red Hat Linux 6.2 in VMware Fusion, though it should work with any VMware product. For some reason, getting older operating systems to run at least somewhat nicely under newer virtualization software feels kinda pleasurable to me. If…

  • Compiling Code-OSS from source

    Howdy, fellow readers! In this article I’ll be talking about my experiences of compiling a copy of Code-OSS (the open-source version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code) from source. Feel free to read on if you’re interested! Preparations First of all, obviously, I had to get the source somehow, so I cloned the official VS Code…

  • Not a good sign…

    UPDATE: I got a replacement drive and transferred everything to it. Thankfully, all the data was fine. Yay! My 2TB Western Digital My Passport Ultra might fail anytime… I’m hearing some strange clicking/clunking sounds coming from it occasionally. Obviously, I’m really worried about the ~800GB of data I have on it. For now, I’m using…

  • TeX/LaTeX rock.

    I mostly use LaTeX (which uses Donald Knuth’s TeX as its typesetting engine) for writing letters to friends, but it has tons of other uses as well. TeX’s typesetting is incomparable to a standard word processor! Its justification/hyphenation algorithm is superior to MS Word in my opinion, especially when paired with the microtype package. Any…

  • No more vanilla VS Code.

    The post’s title says it all. I cooked up a copy of Visual Studio Code from source a few days ago. I added a few lines of code to product.json to enable the extensions gallery so that I wouldn’t have to keep downloading VSIX files manually: I also disabled telemetry in the options. In case…

  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 with KDE under VMware

    A while ago, I managed to install Red Hat Linux 6.2 (and other old late 90s distributions) under VMware: I may write up a post with instructions soon. Stay tuned! In case you have any questions, feel free to comment on the post, I’ll do my best to answer.