Archive for June 2009

Configuring a Fully-Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)

I’ve spent way longer on this than I expected, so I figure I should document it here because I’ll inevitably need it again. This all Ubuntu/Debian specific, so YMMV:
# /etc/hosts
# ————-
# format: IPĀ  FQDN Aliases, comma separated
# list localhost on a line by itself like
127.0.0.1 localhost
# and external ip w/ fqdn and alias
xxx.xxx.0.1 myhost.example.com myhost

# [...]

Programming fonts

While I haven’t been programming for that long, it’s been long enough that I should have thought more about what font I use in my IDE. Recently though I installed JSEclipse which wanted to use some really horrible default. I went in to change it back to normal and realized I didn’t know what my [...]