I was happy to see that the new Underoath album was released today in the iTunes Music Store. Unfortunately, when I downloaded the songs, there was horrible skipping in at least one track (haven’t listened to it all yet). This is the 3rd time (in 3 years) I’ve had this problem with the iTMS when purchasing new albums. The thing…
Our second day of working with the newest release of Edubuntu was much more successful than the first. In just a couple of hours, we got six of our old computers up and running. We needed to replace the video card on one machine. For the rest of the machines, we just needed to add their video card and monitor…
I got my hands on Edubuntu 6.06 about 24 hours ago. Since then, I’ve had a chance to install it on 2 different machines. Here’s a brief rundown of how things have gone so far. First Install - My Notebook I have a Sony VAIO V505BL that was running Ubuntu 5.10. I decided to go ahead and do a workstation…
The newest version of Edubuntu (6.06 LTS - Dapper Drake) has just been released to download servers. This release has many new features (see press release). I’ve used previous betas of this release and was very impressed. We’re downloading now, and tomorrow we start a new project to setup our student computer lab with Edubuntu. We plan to blog all…
Robert Evans has written a very good tutorial for people who’d like to get their feet wet with Rails. The tutorial walks you through creating a very simple application, while touching on some basic Rails concepts. If you’re new to Ruby on Rails, I would recommend this tutorial. If you like what you see in the tutorial, I suggest reading…
Update: Now you can skip all these instructions and just download my KeyFixer application to fix your home and end keys. Read the new article … The default behavior of OS X’s “home” and “end” keys drives me nuts. In every other operating system that I’ve used, these keys move your cursor to the beginning (home) or end (end) of…
I had to reinstall my computer the other day, it’s needed it for a while (mostly because I’ve installed every stupid program I could get my hands on for the last 6 months). I haven’t wanted to reinstall because I had a “working” install of Rails and I remembered how hard it was to install last time. After reinstalling OS…
According to reports from around the web, the Flash Player does not run well inside Safari or Firefox on the new Intel Macs (using Rosetta). Adobe has known about the switch to Intel for more than half a year, isn’t that enough time to make the Flash Player work on the new processors? Where is the Univeral version of Flash…
I recently learned that you can download nightly builds of WebKit. What is WebKit? From the site, “WebKit is the system framework used on Mac OS X by Safari, Dashboard, Mail.app, and many other OS X applications. It is based on the KHTML engine from KDE.” Why would you want to download and use WebKit nightly builds instead of Safari?…
