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Vista, OSX bend over - XGL is here 10

Posted by Darshan Patil Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:10:00 GMT

Just saw this over on YouTube

This is a mind-numbing, stupefying, jaw-dropping, demo of XGL’s capabilities. The background music rocks too. Sticking to Linux never felt sweeter.

Now I dont care much about visual effects on my desktop. I turn them off actually. However, I would love to see the faces on my Windows and Mac using friends when I show this bad boy off. Go XGL !

And another thing, XGL’s hardware requirements are much lower than that of Vista. Mac OSX, hmm.. too expensive, I don’t like you.

Video 1

Video 2

For a high definition, non rocked out version, check this other video out.

Update

Video3 – Multimonitor setup

Oh yeah baby! XGL does multiple monitors too.

Installing typo on a linux box

Posted by Darshan Patil Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:25:00 GMT

Install the gem and all its dependencies 
sudo gem install typo -y
Create a directory where typo lives 
cd ~/
typo install blog

After a while this should complete and typo should run on some port on your machine. It runs on port 4280 on my linux box. Make sure typo is running ok.

Now the fun part. Setting up Apache2 as the proxy to forward requests to your blog.

Add the following lines to httpd.conf (on fedora core its at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf)

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName blog.yourdomain.com:80
    ProxyRequests Off
    <Proxy *>
          Order deny,allow
          Allow from all
    </Proxy>
    ProxyPreserveHost On
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:4280/$1 [P,L]
    ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:4280/
</VirtualHost>

The <VirtualHost *> directive tells Apache to listen on all interfaces for traffic. If it gets traffic for blog.yourdomain.com, it forwards requests to localhost:4280