Archive for the 'note to self' Category
Well I tried Facebook for two months. It is very interesting, but ultimately an empty experience. Bah! Humbug!
There seems to be a lot of noise about Mono, Novell and Microsoft at the moment, and the suspected use of Mono as a virus with which to infect Free and Open Source activities and software.
There are lots of Mono based applications available in Ubuntu, for example, such as Tomboy, Banshee, F-Spot, and so on, [...]
For quite a while I used a Yahoo account and their web based email client. It was useful, especially when travelling around Europe … I checked it out again the other day thinking, why did I stop using this? Well the answer is pretty obvious - advertisements. I just forget how intrusive the damn things [...]
Create a .revelation file in the home directory and put the XML file for Revelation there, rather than have it sit in the Documents directory
I must read this at my leisure and work out how to get that mouse going - LinuxDevCenter.com — Rediscovering Bluetooth
I need to search the South Australian Government Gazette occasionally for work. It is the place where the Government has to publish information relating to new legislation, licences, regulations, etc for public comment and notifications. The search engine on the site is horrible and really slow and in fact seems to be broken at the [...]
this guy has a really interesting summary of how to skin your ubuntu box like mac os x - Ultimate Ubuntu Dapper Look Like OSX ยท supriyadisw dot net — seeing that os x is my main frame of reference for what is good ui design this is pretty relevant
postgis needs to be packaged for ubuntu. i should read up on packaging here
https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/packagingguide
learn how to do it. give it a trial go before working out how to submit to one of the ubuntu repositories. it will need to have a dependency on postgres obviously!
also i should look at a meta-package for R, postgis, postgres, [...]
