Frog’s Blog

Updated from previous posting!

UPDATE: thanks to the efforts of lots of people in the community we are now able to download tracks …

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This article serves as a reminder that as professional web developers we should never assume a certain level of prior knowledge from our users; it also demonstrates how Windows needn’t be the first operating system we introduce our relatives to….

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Hi faithful blog fans.

Nothing much to report – busy with the kitchen, have replaced the rotten joists (read: door frames, grrr!) and laid new laminate. On with the new units now

Oh, and upgraded to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, seamlessly as …

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I had an issue today when installing pytrainer. It wanted to install some extra python packages but it couldn’t.

The reason was that I had python2.5 v2.5.2-2ubuntu5 installed but the extra packages depended on an older version – 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1.

I don’t …

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I run Windows Vista on dual boot. My inclination is to get rid of it altogether, but I paid for a license thanks to the Microsoft Tax when I bought the machine and sometimes vendors (Garmin for example) …

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Typical, after my last post extolling the virtues of how easy it was to install a printer in Ubuntu I hit a problem today.

The symptoms are that you go to do a printer administration task, like add a printer, …

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I need to do a bit more flag waving for Ubuntu Linux. I have said it before, and I will say it again:

Ditch Microsoft Windows.

Download Ubuntu for free, don’t pay the Microsoft tax.

Anyway, my most recent wonderfulism …

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Had a problem last week where my editor was defaulting to using UTF-8 whereas the files i was editing were ISO-8859-1. This ISO character set allows for extra single-byte characters beyond those in standard ASCII – including 163 …

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I found out two things today.

The XSD for this XML:
<someElement anAttribute=”aValue”>someValue</someElement>
goes a little something like this:
<xs:element name=”someElement” type=”some-element-def”
…

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I recommend that if you’re a little bit interested in Linux you have a listen to the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

Recently I joined the transcribers’ team. The aim of the team is to transcribe each of the existing episodes …

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I am itching to install the next release of Ubuntu – Hardy Heron.

I tend to break things by getting overly excited and installing betas so I am going to have to be patient and wait until April…

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Ages ago I noticed that the shiny desktop effects on my Ubuntu Gutsy laptop had stopped working.

I have only just got around in investigating, I eventually sorted it out but only after a couple of hours of fiddling. The symptoms …

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I was speaking to good friend the other day and he was surprised to learn that I use Linux instead of Microsoft Windows. Given that he is doing some IT training at the moment it is a bit …

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