I found a Windows XP bug today. I know it’s an ancient platform, but this one tickled me. Turn on single-click file browsing mode. Create an empty file on the desktop. Drag a rectangle around the new file and the recycle bin. Hover your mouse over the new file until it turns darker… Comments (0)
If, like me, you’re a bit off-put by Silverstripe’s tendency to put the default language of your site as en_US, or American English, you can override this pretty easily. Simply put the following code into your mysite/_config.php, substituting en_AU for the language code of your choice. It’s almost too easy… Comments (0)
Microsoft Windows has an incredibly irritating penchant for messing up Linux installations. When you install Windows on another partition, your Linux boot loader will be wiped out, and you’ll need to restore it manually… Comments (0)
I’m using Ubuntu 9.04, so it’s a known problem that the new Intel driver is still teething. Dual screens wiped my 3d capabilities out, and even general rendering performance was terrible.
Comments (2)Numerous frameworks and languages are nowadays available and aimed specifically at producing rad web apps, but the question remains: where do we go from here?
Comments (0)It was rather exciting to read that Google were releasing a new browser. Sure, they’ve had problems in the past with some of their software offerings, but they’re known for delivering generally well-intentioned and solid products.
Comments (0)I like the BSD license. It’s not completely free, but there’s far fewer restrictions as to what someone can do with content licensed under it than with say, the GPL… Comments (4)
If you like dabbling a little in music creation, but prefer to use free software solutions, you’ll notice a distinct lack of software available. When you want to run Fruity Loops (FL Studio) under Linux, you need to resort to using either a virtual machine running Windows, or try and emulate it using WINE… Comments (6)
I just finished setting up a thin client that connects to my server. If you wish you can read more about it in the post. Here, however is a brief tutorial for setting up an XDMCP thin client… Comments (4)