MandrakeSoft out of Chapter 11 Protection

Just saw on /., that Mandrake is out of their Chapter 11 like protection which they filed some months back. Good to hear for my favorite linux distribution. I have some reservations over the new Mandrake, however I will not pass any judgement until I get the official release from the MandrakeSoft store.

Support your linux companies, time is not free and their efforts are definetly appreciated.

~david macias

posted in Linux by dmacias

Moving out of the RC into the final version

Upgraded the code base of the website, looks like it was succesful. I will kep the old site for a while, just in case I missed something. Seems a little faster, I wish my host was running PHP 4.3 or atleast running PEAR, but alas no :-(

~david macias

posted in General News by dmacias

RSS and PHP

So I decided to play around with PHP and XML. My objective was to create a site which will retrieve job postings from a RSS feed. I am currently tweaking it but so far it is working great. Here are some pointers for any souls trying to to do something similar.



~david macias



I retrieved this tutorial from this Great Site.



I have updated this article with this new story.

posted in Technology by dmacias

Windows 2003 Server

So I finally cracked down and started playing with the future of the Windows Servers. I am talking about the Windows 2003 server. Read on to find out what some of my initial thoughts on this new operating system.



edit: 04/08/04
Security Focus just posted a new article on the IIS6.0 security :-) Talk about timely.

posted in Windows by dmacias

Lost Prophets – Last Train Home

Kind of a sign, was just thinking about this song, when my favorite internet radio station played it. So this song is about hope after love, the words might seem a little depressing, but the underlaying message is that there is "still tomorrow".

And we sing.

posted in Music by dmacias

Job Search Information Management

The saying is that treat a job search like a full time job. Right, specially when you already have a job that is close to full time and you’re a full time student. So can you really have 3 full time jobs? Not really.

The point is that I looked around the web for a tool that would help me manage all my information concerning my job search. The tool I am createing will manage: