One thing I particularly enjoy are tools that make my work simpler. I was reading a post on Smashing Magazine about "35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design" that mentioned Compass. It's a a real stylesheet framework. As such it's of great benefit to web developers and designers who have some coding skills.
What particularly attracted me to Compass were four issues:
Simplifies maintainable, semantic CSS that I can import into any project.
Compiles my CSS files as beautiful code
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This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). Firewall Builder was introduced earlier with the article Getting Started With Firewall Builder. The series continued with articles on built-in policy importer and other topics.
More information on Firewall Builder, pre-built binary packages and source cod...
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I recently was asked by a new Ubuntu user (also involved in web, graphic design, etc.), what some of the more common day to day commands I use are.
Many of these commands can increase productivity, etc. by making things (for me at least), easier to do. My system desktop has a transparent terminal integrated into it. This makes it easy for me to run commands as I never have to open a terminal - my desktop in effect, is the terminal.
These are useful commands! Ones that will actually help you do something! Other more...
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When I need to run a Windows based application on my trusty Ubuntu Hardy box, I don't use Wine. Don't get me wrong, it's just that I don't want to have to manage the Wine environment and prefer to have Windows and it's associated applications tucked away in it's own virtual system. This way if I need to run a Windows application... I simply boot up the Windows system and run whatever application I want.
More importantly, I run several distributions of Linux in virtual environments. This way I don't have to worry abo...
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I had an interesting morning playing with my Ubuntu (Hardy - 8.04) system. I just created a nice new desktop, with super effects and graphics and wondered if there's not a way to create a more customized "ear candy" environment (since I've already covered the eye candy aspect). I discovered that Ubuntu (and most likely other Linux distributions) has a speech synthesis package included, it's called espeak.
In my system, it was installed by default. If you don't have it available, the command to install is:
s...
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This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). Firewall Builder was introduced on this site earlier with articles Getting Started With Firewall Builder and Using Built-in Policy Importer in Firewall Builder.
More information on Firewall Builder, pre-built binary packages and source code, documentation and ...
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Earlier I posted Mono in Ubuntu, Yes or No? It was a post where I learned a bit about the issues surrounding Ubuntu's default inclusion of Mono. During that post, I arrived at the position that it should not be included by default (and that I'd prefer to remove it from my system). A developer that uses Mono, provided a lengthy, well thought out comment post. It was a comment that I think all users, both pro and con should consider. I strongly believe the heightened emotions and zealotry (is there such a word?) needs ...
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It seems there's a fair bit of discussion (heated at times), about the current issues with Mono being installed by default in Ubuntu Linux. I've seen and read some of the flame wars currently in blog posts and forums. Seems that an ordinary person like myself can be easily mislead if not properly informed. The following post is simply my opinion, I'm not suggesting that it's fact. I asked one of my blog readers ("ql"):
"What’s the scoop with mono (I don’t use it), I’ve seen a fair bit of flame wars over it...
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"Danny", one of our readers asks:
"I have a ati r128 graphics driver. I dont see the driver in hardware drivers at all. The driver is a inf file. I dont know how to install it. Please help me!"
I don't have much information provided in the question (more information is always helpful and allows for better answers). However, I hope the following will help.
First, the inf file is a Windows based file, you don't need that in Linux. I had an ATI Rage 128 card a while back, and a do remember having issues. I...
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One of our readers "Garry" writes:
"I restored ubuntu 8.04 and it wanted to do 188 updates and then 294 updates. The problem is it takes up all disc space and then the system is unstable. What can be done to fix this problem? Thanks"
There is a way you can approach this...
1) Only select a few updates at a time (that way the package manager will not download all 188 or 294 updates). Doing so gives you the opportunity to remove some of those used package updates (saving disk space) before you begin the n...
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