Category Archives: Ubuntu


Ubuntu no longer likes to mount me

November 19, 2007 – 5:02 pm

I started an edgy eft (Ubuntu 6.06) to feisty fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) upgrade at the weekend. All seemed to go well apart from, it no longer likes my fstab file for auto mounting disks. I have my home directory on a different partition and auto mount it using the fstab file. It no longer works. […]

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Extend Your Browser

February 9, 2007 – 3:40 pm

Tuesday 6th (the day of my presentation) eventually rolled around. Due to a crazy machine rebuild and re-install fest, I only finished writing the presentation at 1:30pm on the day. It went really well, some very good questions at the end. As I mentioned in my previous entry - the description of the presentation was […]

By philroche | Also posted in firefox, xml, rss, javascript, Linux, scripting, open source | Comments (1)

Geek resolutions

January 4, 2007 – 12:04 pm

As it’s new year and my motivation is at an all time low, I think a list of TODOs (or new years resultions) is needed. Some of those listed are techy and some are not but all of them are aimed at improving my life.
I will

Finish the new design of this site - […]

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instLux saved my bacon

November 4, 2006 – 8:46 pm

instLux, installing linux on a machine with no cd or floppy drive
I was very bored of my toshiba libretto L5 as WinXP was getting crazy slow on it so I never bothered to use it. I wanted to put Ubuntu on it but the live cd or the install would not recognise the PCMCIA cd […]

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Server tears

September 27, 2006 – 10:13 pm

Well, I received my server today. Quite surprisingly the packaging was a bit poor, with only bubble wrap wrapped around it. The RAID controller and PCI adaptor were loose inside. After some fretting I eventually got it running and booting into the installed Mandriva. I then started to install Ubuntu which would but install due […]

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Investing in a server

September 12, 2006 – 2:36 pm

I’m not big into hardware and only really know what I need to. I’m not a gamer and have no need for any fancy graphics cards. I do however spend hours trawling ebay for servers. I am dying to buy one and I think the time has come. I had been looking at the Sun […]

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Porting a Project from Visual Studio .NET to Mono

August 10, 2006 – 1:40 pm

ONDotnet.com — Porting a Project from Visual Studio .NET to Mono
If I ever get some free time - you’ll see KarovaStore running on mono

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Dev crazy

July 10, 2006 – 8:48 pm

In an attempt to vary the type of programming I am doing, out of office I have been working on quite a few cool projects. Outlined a few below - unfortunately none are for download yet as they are still in progress.

KarovaDev Firefox extension
As Karova’s main product is a hosted e-commerce solution, we naturally have […]

By philroche | Also posted in Techie, python, firefox, xml, c#, mod_python, Linux | Comments (1)

XGL madness

June 1, 2006 – 11:28 pm

I managed to get (with some help) XGL working on the iBook and it runs quite well considering the graphics cards in those machines. All the key bindings were screwed though (it being a mac keyboard - an australian one at that) and it misunderstood the size of my screen so all my apps were […]

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Finally, me got some wireless

May 31, 2006 – 9:29 pm

With the long awaited Dapper Drake release of Ubuntu I have finally got Ubuntu 6.0.6 (Dapper Drake) working on my iBook. With some help from ubuntuforums, modprobe, fwcutter and my OSX installation, I also managed to get wifi working (I did have to disable my WEP though).

Awesome stuff, It really is nice to have a […]

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