A few weeks ago, I sat down and spent about 75 minutes watching a video presentation about Django by Jacob-Kaplan Moss. In case you don’t click the link, it’s a Google TechTalks presentation called "django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines". There’s a moment in the presentation where Jacob describes it as (I recall) "stupidly […]
Last week, Novell and Microsoft struck a "patent cooperation deal". It’s quite puzzling.
One thing is the question of Mono, the open .net implementation. If you’re so worried about getting sued by a particular company, why pursue a course of reimplementing a technology that they’ve designed? Secondly, why are Novell so worried about it? As far […]
Installed some more things for Wordpress. In brief, simple. Installed phpmyadmin. No problems. Set up a db user and a new database. No problems. Edited the wp-admin file, and ran the install and login script. No problems.
Compared with a windows install, Wordpress on Ubuntu has been a dream.
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Slight diversion into Flash.
This isn’t too difficult, but it didn’t go very smoothly. So, maybe this will help you.
1. Add the dapper-commercial repository. Go to System… Administration… Software Properties. Click the Add button then the Custom button.
2. You will be prompted for an APT command. Enter:-
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial
and click “Add Channel”.
3. Get a […]
I’ve done the bulk of the install of Wordpress on my new Ubuntu Linux machine, and it’s going smoothly. Almost too smoothly.
The laptop is running solid as a rock with Ubuntu Dapper. Apache, Wordpress and MySQL are in place, and I just need to set up the MySQL users and connections.
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I had been trying to get a stable ubuntu running on my PC, after which I decided that it might be a lot simpler to try it on a laptop, a set of prebuilt components that someone else would have already tried it on. So I pulled out my old Inspiron 2500 and off I […]
I recently bought and fitted a new 60GB hard drive to my old Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. The old 10GB drive just didn’t cut it, space wise, and it was a slow unit.
So, I took the old drive out, but before reloading everything, I decided to try and put Ubuntu Linux on.
I’m not going to […]
I decided to check out Picasa on Ubuntu in some more detail, and took some photos, and then picked one and applied the B&W filter, and exported them. Worked just fine and dandy, detecting the card from the camera and proceeding with it.
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I like free, open source software, but I don’t view it with zealotry. I like Ubuntu a lot, and respect that they believe in everything being free as in beer, free as in freedom.
But I’ll use what I like.
Which brings me to Picasa, Google’s excellent photo manager. It’s what I use on Windows for organising […]
As a followup to my original Ubuntu Dapper post here, I’ve done an update to the latest version of the beta, known as Flight 8 (very easy, just click the update, or get into your whole sudo apt-get bad self).
The networking is working again, and stability is much better.
Looking forward to the full live release […]
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