This is a blog, a collection of articles, some software projects, some miscellaneous scripts, a kitchen sink... I hope you'll find something useful or interesting.
There is an updated version of KdeAm available. This is only a bug fix for situations where the audio is not playing correctly. This was due to a recent change in the sox utils, where the ‘play’ command expected a different style of paramater. Find it on the KdeAm page
Every now and then I get the urge to try a different desktop manager. Normally I use KDE, but it puts a pretty heavy load on my machine, chews up memory and soon runs into ’swap land’. However, I’ve been using KDE for years, so I’ve got it working how I want it to. But, sometimes the urge strikes to try something else, and this time I went for XFCE4, which is fast approaching V4.4.
Once someone has registered on your nice new web site, it would be useful if they could then edit and change their own account details. Well, of course, they can if they can find the link to their account. There should really be a link on the menu underneath the Logout link, which can, like the Logout link, be set via the admin menu. Here I’ll describe how to add that link to the menu.
Xaraya is a Content Management System (CMS) that is available under the GPL, written in PHP, with a MySQL database at the backend.
I’ve just setup a Xaraya system for the ACCU, an association of programmers, and here I’ll provide some notes on what to watch out for and maybe some ideas for getting started.
Astute observers (thank you Shawn!) noticed that some of the pages were missing from the blog. In particular, the static pages. The dynamically generated posts were fine. Which is probably why I didn’t notice immediately.
Over XMas I upgraded Wordpress to the latest/greatest release, V2.0. It has a very fancy new admin section and a bunch of other improvements… been extensively tested, in beta for weeks. What can go wrong???
Back in February I wrote a short piece about stripping down Wordpress to a more basic functionality (see Wordpress on a Diet ) and now I’ve just undertaken it for another site, so here is a bit more information, also making use of the latest version, Wordpress ‘StrayHorn’ 1.5.1.3.
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Yes, blogs (such as this one) also collect spam, mainly for online p0ker and casin0’s, and they mostly get moderated and sent off to the great black pit ‘/dev/null’. But more are getting through and moderating them takes time… so, as part of an upgrade to the site code, I’ve put in a new Spam catcher:
Spam Karma 2
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Over the weekend I had the worrying experience of losing my LVM settings and potentially all my data… a quick search on the web showed a confusing set of information, much of it for older versions of LVM and therefore rather suspect.
Well, I recovered all my data and it was really quite simple, so I’ve written up what I did in the hope that someone else, in a similar situation, will find it useful. It’s a scary thing, losing the whole hard disk and knowing that, in reality, its all there.
Back when Wordpress was a little wee thing known as B2, it was easy to install and train users in the use thereof. Now Wordpress is a full featured blogging system (and very good it is too) but, for some it is overly complex. Here is a look at how to simplify the installation and use of Wordpress. Wordpress-Lite if you like.
[Note: since WordPress 2.0 has hits the stands, a lot of this article is moot. Wordpress 2.0 has a simpler set of permissions for users which give them simpler administration screens]. Read the rest of this entry »
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