Archive for oktober, 2009
Ubuntu 9.10 – Better than ever…. almost
zaterdag, oktober 31st, 2009Usually, upgrading Ubuntu is relatively painless. It downloads a zillion packages, installs them, asks a few inane questions to which you accept the default options and voilà, you have the new version. And, on my office desktop (yes, we use Ubuntu on desktops at work) it worked perfectly. Not so on my home laptop. Well, [...]
Sending Really Big Files
zaterdag, oktober 24th, 2009A friend of mine had a specific problem: he needed to transfer a big file (and with big I mean 10GB) from one side of the country to the other. Time to burn a DVD (in fact, split the file into 3 parts and burn 3 DVDs) and send it, was not available. Besides, it [...]
Hacking the popcorn hour II
donderdag, oktober 1st, 2009Not really helpful hacks and smart solutions, but links to handy stuff. First, the Linux-Sigma GCC toolchain, for building your own C programs on the PCH. This guy also has builds for other operating systems on his blog. Using it is very easy, just unpack in /usr/local and you have a GCC compiler handy. Call [...]
WordPress plugin: show only 1 category on homepage
donderdag, oktober 1st, 2009Based on the code found at http://www.designsbyjonathan.com, I created a very simple plugin, that shows only one category on the front page. It is version 0.1, but it works. You will have to insert the numerical value of the category you want in the PHP. When adding a minus sign before it, it will exclude [...]