Archive for November, 2007
Sunny in Cleveland?
Kevin Day, November 19th, 2007The PD writes that a German solar company is strongly considering moving manufacturing jobs to Cleveland. They only employ 200 people globally, but it’s still a good sign for Cleveland. Good ‘ol CWRU is one of the key factors in their decision too. A company representative had this to say:
“We were impressed by the ready access to the research environment. That is critical to us — access to research universities,” he said. “We had a very promising meeting with Case Western Reserve University.”
It’s not official though, and it depends a lot on new energy legislation currently being debated in Columbus. I’m ashamed to say I don’t know much about the bill, so I’m going to read up on it and contact my representative so that I can help make this happen.
Python in Ohio
Kevin Day, November 18th, 2007A recent thread on reddit about cool Google Trends had me looking for interesting trends myself. I’m not sure if Google Trends always had this feature, but I just noticed that you can filter the results by state.
When I ran a search of programming languages within Ohio only, I found that “python” hasn’t been a significant search term in Ohio until 2005, where it is most popular in the Columbus area.
However, I think most python searches are for the actual snake, based on this search for snakes:
I guess python has a long way to go to before becoming popular in Ohio.
Linux users will pay for downloads too
Kevin Day, November 15th, 2007Lately I’ve been listening to digital MP3 downloads from Amazon and watching streaming episodes of The Office from NBC.com (well, I did until I heard that the writers don’t earn anything from streamed episodes). Both Amazon and NBC have their own media players for certain downloads though, but of course there aren’t Linux versions. I wrote an email to Amazon asking if there was any chance of supporting Linux for full-album MP3 downloads, but we’ll see if that goes anywhere.
Debian’s Apache Tricks
Kevin Day, November 1st, 2007I’ve been moving this blog and other sites onto one Ubuntu box using Apache virtual hosts.
One problem I had was getting multiple sites to work properly with Debian’s setup of having a separate config file for each site. It wasn’t until I found this blog post about installing WordPress on Ubuntu that I found that you need to create a file named virtual.conf with one line: NameVirtualHost *.
If you’re running into the same problem, check out his blog post and also the Debian Administration article on virtual hosts.
Also, instead of using a .htaccess file to get pretty urls for WordPress, you can instead put them in the virtual host config file between <Directory></Directory> tags.
