I’ve been a great fan of the Reuben theme, originally by akka, in fact it is the only theme I’ve ever used on Linux. The other day I needed some change though, I’m also a sucker for dark themes, I hate the glare of white backgrounds, luckily Reuben is somewhat beige which takes the edge off the worst.... Read More

I just installed Intrepid on my dual head machine at work and the experience was without flaw, easier than ever.... Read More

What a nightmare it was yesterday and for the better part of today. The new project just failed to run with mod_rewrite on the staging server and we couldn’t understand why.... Read More

I really like Ubuntu with apt-get and synaptic to manage and install software, the total freedom to customize and yadayada you’ve all heard it before. However, sometimes the experience is not so pleasant, crazy actually, the first incident happened in the very beginning of my Ubuntu usage about 2 years ago. The culprit then was Beryl (now Compiz Fusion). After installing Beryl on my Nvidia powered desktop machine at home it started to randomly freeze the living shit out of it in a completely random way. It’s a total horror to have the coolest windowing in the world and it isn’t working, so close but yet so far away! That was the first time I realized I was feeling something I had never felt before as a Windows user, or in this context for that matter, envy. ... Read More

I’ve read quite a lot of more or less negative posts about Hardy Heron (HH) lately. Don’t upgrade yet, let them release a few upgrades first, hardware problems, no major new stuff anyway, the list goes on.... Read More

The process of setting up Merb and Datamapper can easily derail, these are my experiences of setting them up on Ubuntu with XAMPP.... Read More

I just shut down my dual boot by reformatting the Linux partition and running Ubuntu in a virtual machine instead. This is the walkthrough:... Read More

Update: Toggling the collation in the settings for the whole database, in for instance PhpMyAdmin has been known to solve quite a few problems.... Read More

What do you do if you have a lazy no good linux admin that won’t do as he is told and you want him to enable pdo, mod_rewrite and more? Well Linux nerds are a stubborn bunch so don’t bother threatening, pleading or bribing, if the admin in question doesn’t feel like doing as he is told he won’t. That the useless nerd is actually getting paid to do stuff like this is apparently completely irrelevant.... Read More