Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) 64bit on a SONY VAIO AW11Z

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

First of all, I have to say I’m really happy the way it turned out, at the moment I’m having no problems at all running a 64bit version of Ubuntu, but damn, the road here was horrible.... Read More

DiskSearch

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

I just tried DiskSearch, it’s a great replacement of WhereIsIt for Linux, the only gripe I have is that it’s not possible to actually click in the search results to have the folder open up in Nautilus.... Read More

Ext3 or ext4? That and upgrading to Jaunty

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Today I somehow ended up on ext3’s wikipedia page, I wanted to check whether it’s really true that no defragmentation is needed like they say.... Read More

Compiz Fusion – finally working

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Using Intrepid and the newest Nvidia drivers (version no. 180), Compiz Fusion finally works, so does TwinView. What a massive relief, finally!... Read More

Being Linux admin – setting up virtual servers and Samba

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

I’m now programming casino and poker related sites in Malta. First of all, the in house CMS solution we use for our sites is tightly connected to the use of virtual servers in Apache. So first up was trying to implement that without using some admin tool like Plesk or cPanel.... Read More

Historic day for me and Linux

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I’m writing in the middle of the jungle, using a GPRS modem on Linux, read on and you’ll understand why that’s such a massive milestone. Up until now there has been only one single reason why I’ve still used Windows, my Salomon modem wouldn’t work on Linux.... Read More

Black Reuben Gtk / Metacity theme

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

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

Installing Intrepid Ibex – Ubuntu 8.10

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

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

Crazy SUSE mod_rewrite problem

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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

Bitchware and Envyware

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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