Archive for April, 2008

April 21, 2008

Creating pdf’s on Windows

April 21st 2008 Posted to Geekery

It’s really easy to make pdf’s on Windows – for free! All you need to do is download an open source application called PDFCreator and install it (here’s the latest download link, as of April 2008). Once it’s downloaded, install it. Then to create a pdf, simply open your Microsoft Word document (for instance – you can create a pdf from any application you can print from), then click:

File -> Print

and in your printer dialogue choose “Print to PDF” and choose where you want to save your file. Viola! A pdf document! Without having to buy any software – gotta love open source.

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April 3, 2008

Review of open source content managers

April 03rd 2008 Posted to Drupal, Geekery, wordpress

More and more people are taking open source content managers and building sites with them. The usual suspects are Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Here is an article from the April Adobe newsletter that gives a basic overview of these three (as well as XOOPS and CMS Made Simple) and provides a recommendation for the most flexible, scalable system which also has an “enthusiastic user community” – I leave it to you to read the article and discover which one wins :)

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April 1, 2008

My new record: running a Mac for 52 days continuously

April 01st 2008 Posted to Geekery, mac

I have a Macbook Pro which I’m rather proud of. Aside from working it extremely hard and having stacks of applications open simultaneously, it travels with me from my room to the house to the Drakensberg to all around Pretoria, so I’m continuously putting it to sleep and waking it up again, often for 10 minute periods. It’s performed flawless for the last month – the last time I had to reboot/restart it was almost 2 months ago.

According to a cool little Terminal command – uptime – my Mac has been running for:

22:53 up 52 days, 9:41, 4 users, load averages: 0.75 0.91 0.89

This is a personal record and I felt I had to share it with everyone who should know better than to check their rss feed every hour. Go and do something. In the real world. Talk to someone. Without using a chat client. Go on – it’s less scary than you think!

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