Again, Google came to the rescue for this, linking me to this site which gave a 2 step process for doing the shrinking. Do note that the instructions are for those who are using Windows as their host OS.

Although it was fixed relatively easily, it seems rather odd that Java would actually try to access the X server even though I was running it through a SSH terminal window (PuTTY)..

Probably would test out the Web Tools project of the Europa release as web services and distribution seems to be my domain at work in recent times..

A quick fix for this can be found here. It’s been working for me without any adverse effects since. ;)

• Introduction to abject-oriented programming
• Linux funnies
• Asshole driven development

Mr sysadmin AsenDURE didn’t have an answer for it either, so I went back to do more googling which one of them actually fixed it. Although the installer (msi) file was on the hard disk locally, it was in a network share which Windows Server 2003 disapproves of. After moving the file to an unshared directory, the install process was completed without any issues. That’s Windows I guess. ;)

Another thing which I’ve learnt after the first week is not to run services/applications which were built for *nix on Windows. I had heaps of problems in migrating CVS to SVN which would never have been an issue had it been a *nix box.

Following the steps from here, your currently selected search plugin (by default Google) would glow blue when it automatically detects a search plugin. And the following screenshots on how to add and use it are rather self explanatory.

Adding it:

Using it:

There should be a 16×16 icon image for it, but I don’t have one for it now though. ;)

For those interested in the nitty-gritty technical details, the site was designed based on a WordPress installation with numerous changes to the CSS and templates of the theme it’s based on (MistyLook). WordPress Codex was an excellent resource for all the stuff I did and has everything categorised pretty well.

As expected, IE decided not to display some things as how the other 2 browsers displayed it (stuff just above the header images were misaligned or got ‘covered’ by the image below it) and I chose to use the conditional comments method to get around this. The site now shows up appropriately in Firefox 1.5, IE 6 and 7, Opera 9 on Windows.

I’m pretty impressed by the Debian derived package management system which makes it very easy to add, remove or update almost any application available for it. I remember the times when I had to deal with all sorts of dependency errors when attempting to install stuff on Mandrake 9.0 (now called Mandriva). Besides the server services such as Apache, PHP, MySQL, I got Samba installed as well so it’s now also functioning as a dump box besides its primary function as a development server (not much so recently though..). :D

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Coincidentally, I found another pic lying on my hard disk of a similar vein:

I do not wish to prove this true during the usability testing session with my project’s client in 2 days time though.. It’s going to be a pain if that happens. XD