I’ve just done an update of the database for this blog. I did an export and a giant find/replace for some formatting tags I wanted updated. If you notice anything really odd about the site, pages not displaying, content screwed up, etc please let me know. It appears all is well.. so far. What I… Read More »
With all the hoopla and excitement today in regards to KDE 4.0 release I thought I would publish some instructions on installation for those that want to try it out. There is a KDE 4.0 LiveCD available if you’d like to “try before you buy”, and this tutorial will install KDE 4.0 alongside your current… Read More »
Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 3 was released today. For those that do active bug work please help squash the bugs in 8.04 so we can make a *really* solid LTS release this spring. Release announcement and download locations below: ———- Welcome to Hardy Heron Alpha-3, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.04. Pre-releases of Hardy are… Read More »
I was sitting here this afternoon trying to come up with something to blog about. Looking at some of the wiki work I’ve done recently I realize I’ve made a good use of the gconfool-2 for customizing the GNOME Desktop all from the shell. I thought I’d share some of the basic command structures with… Read More »
Setting up name-based virtual hosting on Ubuntu I do apologize again for some of the recent downtime on the blog. I’ve been researching tuning options all evening to try to bring the memory consumption lower. I did also add an additionl 256M RAM to the machine hoping that will help. Thanks for the patience during… Read More »
I found myself toying with one of my test servers the other nite and realized that I didn’t know what the root password was for my MySQL database. After a quick bit of Google searching I found a very easy solution. Granted this may be limited to recent releases of Ubuntu (tested on Ubuntu 7.10),… Read More »
I realized the other nite that I have been using my EeePC at 640×480 since I got it. Man, how miserable is that resolution! Well, I set out to figure out how to make sure I was using the larger resolution and didn’t find much. This post outlines the steps I took, and I’ve also… Read More »
I’ve previously posted a number of tutorials concerning the coolest chat clients in the universe, irssi + bitlbee. Bitlbee has seen some recent improvements, including a rewrite of the jabber codeset and addition of chat-room support for the IM clients. This mean you can now join jabber conference rooms within bitlbee. I initially wrote most… Read More »
I spent yesterday evening putting the final touches on my server transition. The DNS update should be making its way through the ever clogging interweb tubes as you read this. Hopefully by Monday it’ll have made its way to the far corners of the interweb. I do want to thank everyone that offered services and… Read More »
As many of you have noticed the site has been down for the majority of the day. I really don’t have any idea why other than because I’m over my “PHP quota”, which I don’t know why would be the case. I’m honestly pretty fed up with my hosting provider at this point. I’m very… Read More »