I created a project on Launchpad for the first time today. It’s called CS Greasy, a collection (or soon to be a collection) of Greasemonkey scripts related to CouchSurfing. It took a little time to figure it out, but thanks to Kasper’s help, I think we’ve got it working now.
I created a new team called [...]
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CS Greasy on Launchpad
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Proposing WP Flavours
Instigated in part by this discussion, I think the time has come to start forking WordPress. I think there is space for a few different forks, or flavours, of WordPress. I can imagine flavours focused on security, privacy and probably others. For example, a flavour that disables all the post versionining. A flavour that strips [...]
Also posted in Techy, WordPress Tagged forking wordpress, WordPress, wordpress forks, wordpress privacy, wordpress security, wp flavors, wp flavours 1 Comment
My first greasemonkey script
On several ocassions I’ve looked for an animated weather map where I can see the predicted weather for a region. After some struggling, I found maps on weather underground that were close to what I wanted.
However, when I changed the date of the map, it loaded a whole new page with the new map for [...]
Also posted in Techy Tagged firefox, greasemonkey, onchange, onclick, remove onchange, remove onclick, unsafeWindow, userscripts, weather maps, weather underground, wrappedJSObject, wunderground Leave a comment
VirtualBox host to guest networking
I’m creating a new development server on VirtualBox. I was using VMWare until recently, but since upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 64bit, I’ve decided to try VirtualBox instead. I also recommended VirtualBox to my brother, so by using it myself I’ll be better able to support him if he has any issues.
Installing a new virtual machine [...]
Also posted in Techy Tagged bridge networking, host only networking, ubuntu, ubuntu 9.04, ubuntu jaunty, virtualbox 3 Comments
Ubuntu Jaunty and pidgin-facebookchat 1.61
I was able to install pidgin-facebookchat 1.61 on Ubuntu Juanty Jackalope (9.04) by first installing the relevant libjson-glib-1.0-0 from Karmic. To find the correct deb look at the different builds on the right hand side of the page. In my case on 64-bit Ubuntu the relevant deb was this one, the 32-bit version is here.
I [...]
Also posted in Techy Tagged facebook chat, jaunty, karmic, libpurple, pidgin, pidgin-facebookchat 2 Comments
Google Wave
This might be the most exciting technological development since email. I’m truly impressed at Google’s approach to this project. It gives me newfound faith in Google.
The guys behind Google Maps set out to answer the question “What would email look like if it were invented today?”
Their answer is truly outstanding. Wave is a collaborative communication [...]
Also posted in Techy Tagged collaboration, collaborative communication, communication, email, Google, Google Wave 6 Comments
Considering a Kindle
I’m considering the purchase of an Amazon Kindle 2. I like reading books but books a’re big and bulky which doesn’t fit very well with my current nomadic lifestyle. I’ve spoken to a few people who recommend the Kindle.
However, I just read this. Amazon has allowed publishers to restrict whether a book can be read [...]
Full encryption is go!
This post comes to you from Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, upon a fully encrpted 500GB disk. So if my laptop should fall into the wrong hands, my customers, family and friends can rest assured their data, passwords, photographs or emails are (for all practical purposes) secure.
Thus far I haven’t noticed a performance cost. The system [...]
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Magic pidgins
Pidgin is my instant messaging client of choice. It means my MSN, Gtalk, Yahoo, ICQ and other contacts are all in one place. Today I have taken that to the next level with three new plugins.
Skype Pidgin Plugin
I need to have skype installed and running, but now I can send / receive messages from within [...]
Also posted in Techy Tagged Facebook, facebook chat, off the record messaging, pidgin, pidgin extra prefs, Skype, twitter 7 Comments
Ubuntu is go
I have installed Ubuntu. It all seems to be running quite smoothly. VMWare is working, which is nice. I had some initial sound issues with Skype but it looks like it was a volume issue, sorted now. Waiting for Zend studio to download, hopefully that will be an easy install.
Overall, the process was rather painless. [...]
Early adventures with Ubuntu
I’ve been thinking about switching from Fedora to Ubuntu. I downloaded the latest Ubuntu version a few weeks ago. Today I took the plunge and booted it up.
First thing I noticed, no wireless networks. It detected my card and it seemed to work, but no networks were listed by NetworkManager. I unplugged the power and [...]
Also posted in Techy, Videos Tagged Fedora, Linux, livna, Open-Source, truecrypt, ubuntu, ubuntu versus fedora 4 Comments
