Tim Hawes

NetBSD

Tim Hawes — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:44:48 +0000

Released some free videos on installing NetBSD, and post-install configuration.

Part 1: Install

Part 2: Post-Install Configuration

Both can be viewed at http://easyfreeunix.com

New Project: OpenBibleDB

Tim Hawes — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:13:57 +0000

I have started a new project called OpenBibleDB. I had actually envisioned this project about five years ago. There has never really been a good Bible application that I have been very happy with, except for Crosswire’s Sword Project. I decided what I really wanted was a web based solution, that I could save my study notes to, and access from anywhere. After messing around with Sword’s mod2osis programs, I came up with the idea of just exporting the Sword modules into a relational database, and then write a web-based frontend to access it.

Originally, I planned my project around PostgreSQL and it’s tsearch2 module for fast text searching. I later decided that PostgreSQL waa ideal, but in order to make this application available to the widest audience as possible, I need it to work on MySQL and PHP. So that is this current projects goals.

So right now the process of importing a sword module is to use mod2osis to convert a Sword module to Osis XML format, and then to edit the MySQL connection details in parsexml.py, and then run parsecml.py .

I originally had written this program to output SQL for PostgreSQL. With MySQL’s great limitations, parsexml.py has to run an active database connection for the full duration of the export.

Stay tuned! Files are going up today.

CentOS 5 Server Installation

Tim Hawes — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:10:00 +0000

There are lots of videos on installing Linux. This video covers installing the Community ENTerprise Operating System (CentOS Linux) 5, as a server. This is the first of a series of videos I am working on in installing a Linux server and preparing it for use.

How to Install Ubuntu 8.0.4

Tim Hawes — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:35:43 +0000

This video shows how to install Ubuntu 8.0.4 Long Term Support (LTS). I made the entire video on Linux while installing on Sun’s VirtualBox. The video was also edited on Linux using Avidemux.

How to Install SuSE Linux 11.1

Tim Hawes — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:01:39 +0000

This is a video I did, right in Linux using recordMyDesktop application, and OpenOffice Impress for the powerpoint presentation. I took the screenshots while installing SuSE 11.1 on to Sun’s VirtualBox. All these tools came with my Ubuntu 8.04 system. Enjoy!