Open Source Bridge is going to be great this year. While it attracts a different crowd than Linux-centric conferences, I couldn't help submitting a topic proposal anyways :)
I’m starting my sixth year on the PASS Board. I served two years as the Program Director, two years as the Vice-President of Marketing and I’m starting my second year as the Executive Vice-President of Finance. There’s a pretty good chance that if PASS has done something you don’t like or is doing something you don’t like, that I’m…
Not sure what happened here. I installed Cinnamon on my Ubuntu 12.10 environment yesterday, rebooted when finished and everything was working fine. I even used my WWAN modem after my fixed line broadband went down. However, after starting my machine this morning and seeing that my fixed line is still having problems (intermittently), I…
What are "custom software companies"?
By "custom software companies" I mean companies that make their money primarily from building custom, one off, bits of software. Example are agencies or middle-ware companies, or contractors/consultants like Redify.
What's the opposite of "custom software companies"?
The oposite of the above…
A few months ago I dug into Subversion and GIT and was disappointed. They handle SOURCE CODE fine but not other aspects. For example, a web site under version control needs to manage file/directory ownership, file/directory read & write access, Access Control Lists, timestamps, database contents. and external links. Is there a…
If you use git on a daily basis like I do, git-completion.bash is a great way to make your life a little easier. While I guess it does add tab-completion for git commands, the most useful feature for me is the ability to put the current branch into the cmdline prompt. Now that I am comfortable working with multiple git branches…
The Inquirer certainly thinks so.However, I'm not so sure it makes sense to compare Infiniband to an as-yet-unannounced optical external QPI. QPI is currently a processor interconnect. CPUs, RAM, and devices connected by it are conceptually part of the same machine -- they run a single OS, for example. They are both "networks"…
I recently purchased an unmanaged VPS to host my business websites, however I am struggling to get the email accounts working as I have only ever had experience with shared hosting.
The VPS is running CentOS and I have Webmin/Virtualmin installed. I have added my domain, which is lyke.org.uk, and that is working OK. However,…
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 with Openbox on my laptop. Since I need to plug different external displays into it and Openbox environment doesn't automatically pick them up, I thought the best solution I can come up with is to use gnome-control-center and it's display settings tool from within Openbox. But although this tool does…
Bit of a general question here. We are in the process of converting a number of our clients from older web sites to new ones.
The problem we are getting, and sorry for being so general here, is we are getting a sharp decline in traffic as reported on Google Analytics. It's not a gradual decline, it seems to hit almost as…
These days many apps support asynchronous updates. For example, if you're looking at a list of widgets and you delete one of them then rather than wait for the roundtrip to the server, the app can hide the one you deleted, giving immediate feedback. The actual deletion on the server will happen in the background. This can…
Windows 2008 R2 might end up giving me a heart attack at some point.
Yesterday I installed and configured UDDI 3.0 as part of an ESB 2.0 install & config. After configuring UDDI 3.0, if I browsed to the localhost/uddi virtual directory from IIS, all of the links would show up in UDDI. If opened up IE and…
I have a dell laptop with ubuntu linux. A day I tried to start it up and a black screen just appeared that says:
GNU GRUB version1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3
(and these clickable options:)
-Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic
-Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic (recovery mode)
-Memory test (memtest86+)
-Memory test…
I have been playing around with JBox2D and Slick2D and made a little demo with a ground object, a box object, and two different polygons. The problem I am facing is that the collision-detection for the polygons seems to be off (see picture below), but the box's collision works fine.
My Code:
Main Class
package main;…
I posted this last night on StackOverflow and was advised to move it over to StackExchange, thank you for taking a moment to look at my question.
I'm developing a project proposal for my final year project at University and as I aim to use programming languages I am currently not too familiar with I'm looking for some…
I am new to html and javascript. My problem is that I have a list of items. An example of the list of item is :
request0
request1
request2
request3
request4
Now I need to make next and previous buttons to navigate through this list.
For example;
If I am currently at request1 and hit the next button request2 should…
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my DELL Latitude E6230, on first boot wifi worked properly but when I updated the software it stopped working. I can't figure out the problem...
The wireless network controller is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless Lan Controller (rev 01)
"lshw -class network" gives,…
I've just got Gnome with 11.10 up and running with my netbook and liked it so much I thought I'd get my parents old machine sorted with Ubuntu too. Unity works fine but when I try to switch to Gnome shell, I get problems. On login, the wallpaper appears as normal but then the colour bleeds out from the centre, leaving…
On my laptop, I have a faulty headphone socket, so when I insert headphones into it, the speakers do not mute. I can confirm that this problem is caused by faulty hardware and not software as when I twist the headphone jack, the speakers come on and off according to the movements.
On previous versions of Ubuntu, I…
I asked a similar question on Stackoverflow and was told it was better asked here. So I'll ask it slightly rephrased.
I am working on a Django project, part of which will become a distributable plugin that allows the python/django developer to specify conditional form field display logic in the form class or…
Premise: linux noobie here, I have the same issue as OP: fresh 12.04 desktop, changed grub with grub customizer, now I get a: unknown command 'gfxmode' press ...etc
was asked to "re-post" this question and link to this thread which I refer to above.
I have tried what Tarek said, and nothing seems to work, I…
It seems that more source control systems still use files as the means of storing the version data. Vault and TFS use Sql Server as their data store, which I would think would be better for data consistency as well as speed.
So why is it that SVN, I believe GIT, CVS, etc still use the file system as…
I have been running Ubuntu server on my machine for 2 years and it has worked ok.
I would like to speed it up by raiding a few drives.
The machine is used to host my Mysql databases internally.
using MDADM raid..
I have tried 2 schemes so far with the 3 drives.
2 partitions on each drive 1 for the…
Is it possible to find out more information about particular visits in analytics?
For example, say I'm looking at new versus returning users. I then add a secondary column of "city". Ok, now I know all new users from yesterday came from new york, for example.
But what if I want to find out more…
I'm running the latest official Ubuntu build of VirtualBox (4.1.12), with Windows 8 running as the guest OS. I have a Windows app that works with a card reading HID device, but it's not detected by the guest OS at all.
I've installed the USB extensions, guest additions and set my udev rules…