Check out the 3D drawing I did from a cool Java application Sweet Home 3D This is approximately an hours work after following the tutorial and using an imported 2D floorplan. This isn't using the best quality rendering setting and I found my old P4 was struggling a...
I get between about 100 to (almost) 200 visits a day to this site or so Google Analytics tells me. Recently I blogged about adding non-wordpress parts of your site to the Wordpress tab navigation. And then it hit me... Google Analytics isn't seeing anything about my...
If you have even a small modicum of knowledge in IT you know the first rule of change management is "Before you do anything make sure you have a good backup". Well I've been using Ubuntu 9.04 since it's release and today the update manager gave me the option to...
Note: This works on Ubuntu 10.10 also This worked for me: # you may need to install the sun/oracle java first me@mybox:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre # if you have only just installed then locate won't work use find instead me@mybox:~$ find /usr/lib/jvm -name...
I have my Wordpress setup to display all the blog posts on the front page and the Wordpress "Pages" as tabs on the navigation at the top of the page. However I also would like the navigation to point to other non Wordpress areas of my domain and go straight there. For...
Just a note to self. The Symantec Endpoint Protection SyLinkReplacer (a utility used to rehome clients) doesn't seem to work if your target client has a non-standard windows directory. e.g. all my clients with c:\windows as the %WINDIR% worked fine. But anything with...
I am trying to write Perl code which is warning free, unless there is a real problem. Some of the code I was using to create an XML file using the "XML::DOM" Perl Module was throwing a "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at..." warning. The...
Cold Floors We own an old timber cottage. It's sitting on concrete peers on a sloping block, so wind can get under the house and chill the floor boards down. Insulating under the floors To try and take the chill off the boards, we have put insulation under the floor...
Just installed the Ubuntu 9.10 Beta and perusing the menus and I find under System ==> Preferences ==> IBus Preferences. Clicking on it causing a dialog: As far as I can tell IBus comes from here. From what I can tell it's an input framework that is probably some way...
The version number of Ubuntu is 9.04 and is based on the year and month of release. So 9.04 means 2009 month 04 (April). Therefore given that Ubuntu maintains a 6 month release cycle we can postulate: 4 + 6 = 10 So the new release 9.10 is due this month (October). And...