Building Erlang R22.2 on Debian/Ubuntu

As an update to my previous notes on building R22, my current notes for building Erlang R22.2 and installing ZX using kerl on a fresh system (Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS) follow: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install \ gcc curl g++ dpkg-dev build-essential automake autoconf \ libncurses5-dev libssl-dev flex xsltproc libwxgtk3.0-dev \ wget […]

tl;dr Instructions for Drupal7 on rpm-based Systems

I threw a few sites up for folks in need the other day, one of them being myself (lots of folks’ businesses were wrecked during the tsunami two months ago). From doing that I realized the Drupal 7 documentation on rpm-based systems is a bit lacking (especially in Japanese). There are a few reasons for […]

New Laptop Set-up: Prepare for Battle Against HP, MS and Yahoo!

Once again Microsoft has pissed me off. That’s no shock on its own, but they had help this time from an unexpected accomplice: Yahoo. Usually, I like Yahoo. I’ve liked Yahoo for a while and have been a long-time customer, both as a user of free stuff and as a paying customer. So far everything […]