The Ubuntu One Music store, slated for release with Ubuntu 10.04 just went into public beta. Since I have Lucid running in Virtualbox OSE it seemed like a good thing to test. As the public beta blog entry lists a number of things to test, I decided to look at those specifically.
Although Ralink based wireless cards have a nice open source driver, things aren’t all rosy with them on Ubuntu 7.04, aka Feisty Fawn. This in part due to Ubuntu’s switch to using Network Manager (nm) for network connections. In theory, selecting manual configuration from nm should allow you to setup your rt2x00, t2570, rt61 or [...]
I have started my first ever programming project, an easy to use calculator so Exercise Physiologists, PTs, gym trainers and the general public, can work out things like Body Mass Index (BMI) and resting energy expenditure without going online or knowing the formulas.
Quite a while ago I had this idea for the calculator after often being asked questions like “How do I work out my BMI?” or “How much energy do I need to eat if I’m trying to lose weight?”. Many online tools exist for these sorts of things, but there are some problems with these, that I hope to overcome.
If you want a permalink structure other than the default, make sure the Apache option “AllowOverrides” is enabled for the document root of your WordPress blog. It took me a while and a bit of searching to discover this one. The options to go with AllowOverrides aren’t documented as well as I would like, but [...]
At the moment I run this site from a computer at home. It runs on Linux 2.6.15 and Apache. Nothing fancy and for the moment it works nicely. I have since discovered lighttpd. I played with it in a Virtual Machine and it was a piece of cake for my modest needs. I’m thinking of [...]
