I Upgraded my laptop (Compaq nc2400) to 9.04 using the built in upgrade routine last night and everything seems ok so far.
The living room computer is now also running Jaunty but as a fresh install running from a 4GB memory card (the hard drive bit the dust a week or so ago) and after a bit of Codec installing it plays .mp3’s and DVD’s with out any problems.
Sorry not very exciting news i know but if anything interesting crops up i will let you know…….
Ok so why limit yourself to Digg?
the button at the bottom seems to give the ability to get this blog on all social networking sites….
It’s the “add to any” button for wordpress if you like the look of it….
so go on click it, you know you want to.
The idea behind this blog, as the strap line says, is that some of the things I’m sat here trying to figure out other people may need to do to. Said people may find this info use full and it may save them a bit of time to read what i have done….
To help get the word out, and to satisfy my curiosity about how it works i found a word press compatible button that Ryan Wagner had written (http://tech.cybernetnews.com/digg-button/). The code did need a bit of Tweaking (6 foot 2,PHP programing boyfriends – get one and you can use the high shelves in your kitchen and feel vindicated that you did install the plug in right it just needs tweaking to show the Image properly.) so here it is –
Kblogger kept losing any keyboard shortcuts i set up so i had the Theo_Theory is Kblogger is written for KDE and I’m using a GNOME based windows manager so it’s possible the blog tool is just not sitting right….
The final dig around Synaptic package manager for the evening came up with BloGTK 1.1. Easy Setup, spell check and you can add a category – just one mind…
You can open and edit existing Blog entries to.
My partner suggested using a blog client so installed two on my laptop.
Drivel journal editor – nice interface, good name and easy setup but no spell check and i need a spell check so this one is out for me…..
Kblogger – don’t cancel the kwallet setup everything gets a bit tricky if you do. i had to install the KDE Wallet manager and set one up manually.
The UI is not very intuitive and most keyboard shortcuts need to be configured from scratch. It does have the much needed spell check so i will be giving this one a more long term go then Drivel.
The home page for littleliz.co.uk needed a bit of an update so I had a look at some of the open source HTML editors that are available for Ubuntu. The main page is just to send people to other bits, like this blog for instance, but I wanted to add a section re some of the projects I have worked on and this would need a bit more hard core construction.
I needed something WYSIWYG as I can only just stumble my way through HTML and don’t have a head for programing, (don’t get me rong Server or PC hardware / software not a problem I just can’t compile code with the big boys.) I came across KompoZer and it seemed ok – not to complicated but not to powerful either and it crashes loads. I think the current version is still beta (v 0.7.10 – the first 0 = beta right?) and it is a bit unstable – the “tables” menu seems to frequently cause crashes.
In the end I used KompoZer to put together the basic page text and Bluefish to prod about with the HTML to add things like anchors and hyper-links. The result is a simple set of pages, suites me as that’s what I was after.
Back in 2000 I had a go at getting redhat 7 working on a very old “Time” computer – it booted to an xwindoes session once – as I had an odd graphics card I had to manually configure some config files and promptly ran out of time to get it up and running as the demands on Uni got in the way. This experience did teach me one important lesson – if you are new to setting something up for the first time Google what you are going to do first. Whilst I was trying to get redhat working with my Gcard I found 100’s of other people having the same problem and not having the money for a New Gcard I may not have embarked on my adventures with RH 7 at all.
A few years on, in 2009 I decided to put Ubuntu on my Compaq NC2400 laptop and It was a very different experience. A quick google showed no one shouting about how buggy the install was and booting off the install CD to check all was well helped. About 30 mins later I was looking at a laptop running Ubuntu and some of the nice desktop animations. I don’t need a Workspace switcher that displays as a cube but I adore having one.