Category Archives: Open Source

My very own OpenID server

Posted on 25 Aug 2010 by Callum

I just installed SimpleID. Now I have my very own OpenID server. I no longer need to subject myself to the pain of myopenid.com. After they consistently ignored all my requests to fix a major bug in their system, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Links in twitter feeds in Liferea

Posted on 30 Jul 2010 by Callum

I use Liferea to consume feeds. In turn, I consume twitter by RSS. However, twitter’s RSS feeds suck. Urls are not clickable, user names are not links, nothing. It’s flat text. Using Liferea’s ability to locally parse feeds and a … Continue reading →

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Regenerating nautilus thumbnails

Posted on 13 Jun 2010 by Callum

Sometimes nautilus will try to generate a thumbnail for a video file while it’s downloading. Then  nautilus remembers that it tried, and failed, to generate a thumbnail for that file. Once the file has finished downloading, the thumbnail remains broken. … Continue reading →

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CS Greasy on Launchpad

Posted on 21 Dec 2009 by Callum

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 … Continue reading →

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Proposing WP Flavours

Posted on 17 Dec 2009 by Callum

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 … Continue reading →

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My first greasemonkey script

Posted on 25 Nov 2009 by Callum

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 … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox host to guest networking

Posted on 28 Oct 2009 by Callum

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 … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Jaunty and pidgin-facebookchat 1.61

Posted on 21 Sep 2009 by Callum

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 … Continue reading →

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Google Wave

Posted on 29 May 2009 by Callum

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 … Continue reading →

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Considering a Kindle

Posted on 28 Feb 2009 by Callum

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, … Continue reading →

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Full encryption is go!

Posted on 10 Nov 2008 by Callum

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 … Continue reading →

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Magic pidgins

Posted on 26 Aug 2008 by Callum

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 … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu is go

Posted on 20 May 2008 by Callum

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 … Continue reading →

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Early adventures with Ubuntu

Posted on 16 May 2008 by Callum

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 … Continue reading →

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