Blogs of the House of LAN
HOL changes!
HOL has undergone a migration to the fantastic New Zealand-based open-source cms that is SilverStripe! It was a bit of an effort, but it could have been a lot harder.
HOL gets CAPTCHA'd
My god, I checked my moderation queue for blog comments and I had nearly 1000 spam comments waiting for me! Nothing that a good DELETE FROM in the database can't fix, but there might have been some real comments hidden in there! (I did find a few, and exluded them from the deletion. If I missed you I'm sorry and I don't hate you).
Resolve .local domains
Many Linux distros come pre-configured with zeroconf, which lets machines resolve each other in a peer-to-peer manner. This is fine, except they chose the .local domain, which will conflict with any .local domain you may have set up in DNS.
Kubuntu Intrepid
So, the latest and greatest version of the greatest Distro ever is out (haha flamebait :P), and I thought it would be good to document how my install went, so others might be able to get their system up and running nicely. But first:
The Little Browser That Wouldn't
When Firefox first came out it was such a breath of fresh air compared to Internet Explorer. Now its feeling like that same air has been kept in a box for the last year or so and has gone a little stale.
X-Fi nally on Kubuntu!
Finally! I have my X-Fi Extreme Music working in Kubuntu. Now I don't have to have a second soundcard installed just to get me linux sound.
My First ModX Snippet
I wanted something like what modx has as navigation in its help section, but couldn't find a snippet that did it. So I wrote my own.
ATi Graphics Cards and Kubuntu
I've had bad experiences with ATi cards and Linux before. Happily it was not the case this time. Here's how I set up my Sapphire ATi Radeon 3870 HD. I also throw in the desktop effects install at the end.
Essential XP Software
This list is kind of the younger, skinnier, not-any-good-at-sports-or-maths brother of my essential Kubuntu software list. XP doesn't come with bugger all software, so the first thing to do is get some.
Essential Kubuntu Software
Unlike Windows, Kubuntu comes with a large amount of software already installed, like OpenOffice, Amarok, Kaffeine, etc. However I always find I need to install a few more, and whats more, its pretty much always the same. I figured then it would be easier to keep this list online so I can find it, and other people can use it and make suggestions on it too.