Posts under ‘Computing’

I’ve come across this problem a number of times, of course each time I think “this will be fixed next time”.  Unfortunately it’s not the case.  What’s the problem then? You have a directory that you want to password protect, lets call it “secrets”.  It resides in /home/mysite/public_html/secrets/ on the server.  Now fortunately you are [...]

Sometimes you might need to put wordpress into maintenance mode – this replaces your site with a basic message saying that the site is temporarily unavailable.

In no particular order I intend to do/get the following:

Obtain a Macbook (Air / Pro).
Learn how to program the Iphone / Ipad
Get a tablet pc (Ipad possibly or windows 7 based one we shall see)…..

A few weeks ago I upgraded ubuntu to Gutsy Gibbon – I was very impressed, the enhanced graphics which were not available to me in feisty now worked.

However somehow last week I lost my title bar, so no window title, no minimise or maximise button and the close button was gone. In addition the terminal window was now broken loading up a blank page.

For three months now I have used Ubuntu as the operating system of choice replacing windows XP on my home computer.
For the most part the transition was quite easy and it’s clear why people are begining to talk about it being able to replace windows for some users.
But there is of couse always a but – and this is a major one for me. Linux and Ubuntu in particular allows you to easily install programs that are compatible with your particular flavour – e.g. Adept installer, synaptic installer or command line utilities such as apt-get etc…

However one problem I have repeatedly come across is I install a program to find that it doesn’t work