I’ve been meaning to get around to centralising my bookmarks for a while now. I’ve found myself constantly cursing the fact that I work in so many different places and on so many different computers, that bookmarking websites is a pointless exercise.
The only time it becomes useful is when I’m working on my main Linux [...]

Downloading FLV videos can be a nuisance, as there are few regular players that they work on.
In Linux, there are various ways to convert FLV files to other formats. I’m hoping to build up a collection of commands and comment on the quality of the result.
Hopefully others will find it useful.
FFMpeg
ffmpeg -i video.flv -ab 56 [...]

I was playing around with Wine the other day. It’s pretty cool that I can run Dreamweaver and Fireworks on Ubuntu with very few issues now.
One of the problems I did encounter was that the setup program for Dreamweaver wouldn’t run under wine, and the program files had to be copied across to my Linux [...]

I needed to set up some remote access today, and although it was straightforward, it was difficult finding the information I needed.
Set up the server (that’s your computer)

Click System > Preferences > Remote Desktop
Tick the boxes as shown, and set up a password. If you don’t want to force a popup window when a connection [...]

I’ve been playing with the different views in Sharepoint, trying to sort out the Intranet homepage over at St. Peter’s.
The problem they have is that they don’t want announcements to appear on the main screen, but they also don’t want to have to click through to read the announcements.
I set up a new view using [...]