Why does Ubuntu need the Canonical Contributor Agreement?
Let’s say you want to improve Ubuntu by contributing a patch but if that project is covered by the Canonical Contributor Agreement, you’ll need to sign over some of your rights. People have been arguing about this for a while now but why does Canonical need it in the first place?
Fixing /var/lib/dpkg/status corruption
Apt and dpkg are wonderful tools when they work. However, like most tools, if you chuck rubbish at them, they’ll stop working. Here’s a quick guide to overcoming the most common break in /var/lib/dpkg/status.
Canonical's Landscape should be cheaper
Landscape is a great tool but at its current price and integration with the costly Ubuntu Advantage service plan, uptake will be slow.
How to Enable Antialiasing in Wine
I love Wine. If you’re a Linux user, you’ll almost definitely have some experience with it. I recently found a feature that enables antialiasing and I want to share it.
ProTip: Change DNS without downtime
A few times I’ve found that I need to move a site to another server without any downtime but every time, DNS rears its ugly head and ruins my day.
Nano: Open a file at a specific position
Nano isn’t the best editor but it does a fairly good job at staying out the way and letting you edit or view things without needing a cheat-sheet of cryptic keyboard shortcuts. However, what do you do when you have a 50,000 line document and you want to get a specific line somewhere near the middle?
It took three drafts, five rewrites and over six months but here it is: My N900 review
After almost a year of playing with Nokia’s former flagship phone, I’ve more than a couple of things to say about the device, if I’d recommend it and why I’ll not buy another Nokia phone in a while.
Doing cool things in Django's Admin
As somebody who proudly considers themselves a Djangophile, I’m always looking to make one of the biggest aspects of Django (the Admin site) just that little bit better.
Why I love Disqus
Once upon a time if I wanted comments on a website, I would do them myself, tediously tackling problems solved a dozen times before to deliver an intuitive system. But today is a new day and I wouldn’t dream of writing comment code unless I really had to.
Why I can't recommend VPS.net
I’d love to say VPS.net were a hip, awesome and competent company. I’d love to recommend them. I’d love to give you an affiliate link, sit on a beach and get rich… But I can’t. One quick look past their glitzy website and stunning feature array and you’ll see VPS.net are not the industry-leaders they aspire to be.