Posts filed under “Software”
A Lesson In Good Architecture
We recently began working on our biggest event for our biggest client. In the process of getting everything up and running before the event started, we noticed a show-stopper bug appear out of nowhere. Our media processor when finished converting videos and creating thumbnails of images publishes said files to our CDN. Only a few [...]
Logitech MX Revolution revoco in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty: Click-to-Click even after a resume/wakeup
It’s been a LOONG time since I’ve posted eh? Well I finally solved my issues I’ve been having with revoco in the later version of Ubuntu. For those of you who don’t know, when you buy a Logitech MX Revolution mouse (or its ilk), the middle button can alternatively work in “click-to-click” mode (where you [...]
Ubuntu Linux slow/bad internet connection problems
At my office I had been having a problem with my Ubuntu and Fedora boxen having problem connecting to external sites. Some would work, albeit slow, where as others would not work at all (e.g. trying to connect to reddit in Firefox would get enough of the page to display the <title></title> tags but it [...]
SVN Client Too Old (In Ubuntu)?
After upgrading to Subclipse 1.4.0 on my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop, I would try to go in and use the console to update some of my projects. Unfortunately, Ubuntu’s Hardy repos don’t have Subversion 1.5 so I got this message: svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer [...]
10 Hours With Plurk
So I now have spent about 10 hours on Plurk. About an hour of those 10 I spent OFF the service. It is officially addicting.
Plurk: Even worse than twitter!
So whurley pointed me towards plurk earlier today. Naturally I join because (a) I’m a natural sucker, and (b) being a geek I join just about every service to check it out. To give a brief rundown, plurk is another microblogging service just like twitter only it focuses on the social networking aspect a bit [...]
CompizFusion: Blur Your Terminal Window!
Messing around with CompizConfig the other day and discovered a nifty tweak: blur your transparent terminal windows! To do this you need CompizConfig installed: sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager Once installed, go to System > Preferences > Advanced Desktop Effects Settings. Scroll down to Effects and enabled Blur Windows. Then click the Blur Windows button to [...]
Lenovo Expanding ThinkPad Linux Offerings
Matt Kohut posted on the Lenovo corporate blogs a very good sign of industry Linux support. According to Kohut, Lenovo will be expanding its Linux offerings not just by expanding their preloaded selection, but by porting the ThinkVantage software (their “Craplet but Not Craplet” driver/application suite) to Linux. Normally all I see as far as [...]
Plesk open_basedir Workaround
Unfortunately, Plesk does (and according to atomicturtle will continue to) hate on developers by enabling open_basedir by default and not give any way to change such behavior. A work around is possible, overriding the setting in a vhost.conf file (httpd.include files are not so good because Plesk rewrites them every time a change is made [...]