So I was just browsing through the latest copy of Linux Journal that came in the mail today and I noticed something familiar in one of the screen shots. On page 65, in the article “Hacking the Nokia Internet Tablet” they provide a screen shot of the Pidgin buddy list. Glancing at it I noticed… Read More »
Jumping on another meme: “You have discovered that bad people always have a bad effect, and good people a good effect, upon their nearest neighbors;” – Plato, The Last Days of Socrates. Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along… Read More »
I’ve got a few servers in different places around the country and try to monitor them using the logwatch utility. One problem that I’ve run into however is that a few of these servers are not able to send their logwatch emails to me, based on email restrictions by the ISPs. I spent some time… Read More »
I’ve never been one that is much for customizing Ubuntu themes. Generally the most I do is switch to Clearlooks and call it good. Recently, however, a theme was pointed out to me that I really like. Its called Shiki-Colors, and can be downloaded from gnome-look. One nice thing about this theme release is that… Read More »
In my attempts to performance tune the blog I’ve been looking at alternate web servers, primarily lighttpd. One of the initial issues that I had with an attempted migration was that of enabling php. With Apache php had been simple, but lighttpd needed a bit more. To install a php fastcgi enabled web server using… Read More »
I just recently started using DropBox on Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” and leftyfb in IRC pointed out to me a nifty little trick with .htaccess files. If you’ve been using DropBox I’m sure you’ve seen or made use of the Public folder and sharing files. You may have also noticed that the DropBox Public links… Read More »
Its hilarious sometimes what you find trolling identi.ca and twitter. If you’re up for some lolz install the “sl” package: sudo aptitude install sl Next time you fat finger your directory listing of “ls” you’ll get a nice little surprise. (Check out the man page too, its configurable.) I think this wins the official “This… Read More »
I spent some time this evening considering the current status of this blog and the amount of traffic that comes through here on a daily basis. When I first started this blog I never imagined it would become as popular as it has! Something that started on an old Pentium III 500Mhz throwaway machine under… Read More »
For all of you that use the nautilus-open-terminal utility, which allows you to right-click on the desktop and quickly open a terminal, you may be interested in this quick-tip. Thanks goes to a comment on Clint Savage’s blog for pointing this out to me. In previous releases this utility would open the home directory by… Read More »
I generally don’t jump on the meme bandwagon but I thought this one might be of interest to some of you. My old co-worker, Clint Savage, jumped on a meme regarding “What’s the first thing you do after installing <distro>?” I’d be very interested in what my reader-base does after first installing Ubuntu. Perhaps you’ll… Read More »