Webdav is a very handy protocol for writing files back and forth across the internet.
I’ve never really had much call for it – but I’m all for it lately as I’m trying out Alfresco and would really love to see a better way to upload files than the basic web-bsaed uploader that is provided.
As Firefox [...]
When you’re stuck without sysop access to MediaWiki because you cannot remember the sysop details then there’s a handy maintenance script that’s available (if you’ve used the package manager) to reset the sysop username and password.
On Ubuntu server you can run the following command:
php /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/changePassword.php –user=sysop –password=password
The script will immediately reset your sysop username and [...]
I had a little trouble running Ubuntu server on VirtualBox today.
Thankfully the answer was easily found at Installing Ubuntu 8.04 server on VirtualBox « {S.A.Z.W.Q.A}.
All you need to do to get Ubuntu server firing up is to open the settings screen for your virtual machine, and then tick the Enable PAE/NX box.
Click OK and fire [...]
I’ve grown quite fond of vim over the past couple of weeks. After learning and re-learning the shortcut keys, I think that I’m finally on my way to knowing what the hell I am doing!
Anyway, after working on it – I’ve found gVim to be great.
To install, just run:
sudo apt-get install vim-full
This includes syntax highlighting [...]
Well, the BlackBerry is coming along nicely. I’m gradually getting it to work the way I want it to work.
So far, the cool bits are:
Google Maps uses either GPRS or GPS (you can connect a GPS receiver with Bluetooth)
Yahoo! Messenger works off the bat and can stay connected at all times. Never miss an IM [...]
I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron over the weekend. The process was relatively painless, and some of the upgrades made little, but nice, improvements.
Finally, the UPNP media rendering functionality in Rhythmbox is working!
To set this up, you need to access the command line, and install the pyhton-coherence package:
sudo apt-get install python-coherence
Once installed, fire up [...]
