Adobe Flash Sound not working with Iceweasel on Debian?
After upgrading to Flash 10 sound stopped working. Installing the flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound package solved that problem for me: aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound If your using pulse...
View ArticleGot a T400
I recently got an Lenovo T400 and this thing works great with the latest version of Ubuntu (Intrepid). To install Ubuntu, you have to make sure you edit the BIOS settings and change the graphics to use...
View ArticleFirst Baptist Church of Boston
I was looking through my Flickr photostream and realised that I’ve taken a fair number of pics of the tower at Boston’s First Baptist Church. It really is a splendid old building: The doorway: From...
View ArticleSnow!
Got a tonne of snow about a week ago: It’s still been lying around and slowly thawing and refreezing, and being ground down. Today it snow about 5 inches, and now it’s turned to rain/sleet and it’s a...
View ArticleEnable mod_perl on Debian, Ubuntu, & Other Linuxes.
To enable mod_perl with Apache2 on Debian & Ubuntu for all directories served up by Apache2, including user directories such as ~/public_html, add the following lines to...
View ArticleNetbeans 6.5, with Ruby on Rails & JMaki
While writing some RoR code at home (or at least trying to grok the RoR way) I’ve alternating between using Emacs & Netbeans 6.5. Emacs is one true editor to rule them all, but what it’s lacking is...
View ArticleSpam!
Can you believe this: 21,027 spams caught, 65 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 100.000%. So this rinky-dink blog has gotten over 21,000 spam comments since July 2007, and 1,723 in...
View ArticleRails for Eclipse!
Aha! There is RoR support for Eclipse, via Aptana. I’ve just installed it and the instructions are a bit cryptic. Basically you have to install Aptana first (you can do this as an Eclipse plug-in)....
View ArticleDuh!
Note to self: Disable the firewalling scripts (that listen on and block port 80) when starting webserver!
View ArticleRAD7.5 on Debian or Ubuntu
If your installing RAD 7.5 (IBM Rational Application Developer) on Debian or Ubuntu, install the libstdc++5 package: apt-get install libstdc++5
View ArticleHi Lenny
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, codenamed Lenny, was recently released. Here’s a round of of articles about the release and why you might want to consider Debian for your infrastructure. Techworld sums up what...
View ArticleJohn Martyn
I just found out via Jigtime that John Martyn passed away. He’s an artist I’d almost forgotten about, I had one of his albums years ago when I was in college in Dublin. Somewhere along the line I lost...
View ArticlePhp 5 on Ubuntu
This assumes that you want to use Php with Apache2 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. First install libapache2-mod-php5: sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 Which will install the following extra packages:...
View ArticleHigh Scalability != High Availability?
I thought this was pretty funny: It was up last week.
View ArticleBoston Linux and Unix InstallFest XXXII
I won’t be able to make it, but if your interested in Linux and are in or around Boston/Cambridge, the BLU is having one of their installfests: Boston Linux Installfest XXXII When: Saturday February...
View ArticleEmacs and tilde files
By default Emacs saves a copy of the previous version of a file you are editing in the same directory as where the original file is located. It saves a copy with ~ appended to the end of the name. ~ is...
View ArticleWordPress 2.7.1 Editor
I recently upgraded this WordPress installation from 2.7 to 2.7.1 using Dreamhost’s upgrade tools. However, the friggin’ feckin’ post editor is busted, at least in Firefox 3.0.6 on Ubuntu Intrepid. I...
View ArticleStuff I’ve read or reading …
Some links to stuff I’ve either read or plan to read which I think is interesting: Python is not Java, tips for Java programmers starting w/ Python:...
View ArticleTesting 1 2 3 … er what comes next?
I started Firefox in safe-mode and now my WordPress editor is working fine. Methinks, maybe Google Gears was fecking up the editor somehow. Uninstalling Google Gears, exiting FF, restart in normal mode...
View ArticleRyan & The Cardinals
The missues is big into Ryan Adams & The Cardinals. I’ve been listening to him too, but thought he was a bit too “countryish” for my tastes. So anyways we go see them live at the Orpheum last...
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