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Re: Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL on Cygwin

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:47:24 -0000

Awesome man !!!
You made my day. (Sorry about the previous comment. I had a brain-phart)
Great work!

Re: Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL on Cygwin

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:22:20 -0000

Thanks for this post.
One question though. Which lines did you add to the httpd.conf??

Re: Ben’s Techy Musings » Blog Archive » Komodo Edit FTW

bmjames — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:26:50 -0000

Rob: the "dirty diff" can be found by right-clicking on a file's tab and choosing "Show Unsaved Changes".

Re: Ben’s Techy Musings » Blog Archive » Komodo Edit FTW

Rob Wilkerson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:31:02 -0000

In my search for a decent, non-Eclipse, cross-platform (I work on LInux and OS X boxes) editor or IDE, I've come back to Komodo Edit and am gradually exploring its capabilities. I miss gEdit's plugins (specifically the embedded terminal), but prefer the project-based experience of Komodo. I twittered the other day that KomodoEdit is kind of the "perfect" mix of IDE and text editor. I also love its TextMate-like snippets with tab stops. Very, very handy those are.

Would love to hear more about where you found the dirty diff tool and about any other features you find.

Re: Ben’s Techy Musings » Blog Archive » Komodo Edit FTW

Suleman Sidat — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:27:51 -0000

Interesting. Going to try out Komodo edit myself.

Re: Ben’s Techy Musings » Blog Archive » My new robots.txt

Ben — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:53:45 -0000

Genius!

Re: Ben’s Techy Musings » Blog Archive » Bizarre BBC News Bug

Suleman Sidat — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:16:34 -0000

hmm interesting..! I notice you're using Mac OSX! Have you tried QuickSilver on it? Very useful app.

Re: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Asus Eee Box

Patrick — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:41:33 -0000

Great post!! Thanks

Re: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Asus Eee Box

bmjames — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:55:04 -0000

But using unetbootin was so much faster than burning the ISO to a disc and waiting for it to boot. :)

Re: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Asus Eee Box

Erik — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:32:49 -0000

Hello, I normally don't comment on things like this, but I did notice that you added an extra step in your process that was unnecessary. With Ubuntu Intrepid, you can use it in Live mode to make a boot-able USB without Unetbootin. Just boot into the Live CD, click on system->Administration-> Create a USB startup disk. You can do all of this on your windows machine without ever installing Ubuntu on it.

Re: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Asus Eee Box

mh — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:14:18 -0000

On Ububtu 8.10 "apt-get -s install ndiswrapper-utils" returns:
.
Package ndiswrapper-utils is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
ndiswrapper-common
E: Package ndiswrapper-utils has no installation candidate
.
but try this instead: "apt-get -s install ndiswrapper-utils*"
.
The following extra packages will be installed:
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
.
and then install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

Re: The essence of Geek

davzie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:06:51 -0000

Nice post Benage. I might buy one myself.

Re: Ben’s Techy Musings» Blog Archive » BBC Micro 4 Lyf

Rene Lavanchy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:30:59 -0000

How touching. Magic Mushroom... I probably wouldn't have got that even at age 15.

Re: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Asus Eee Box

Kyros — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:31:08 -0000

That was the problem. I had tried to compile ndiswrapper from source earlier. It is working now. Thanks.

Re: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Asus Eee Box

bmjames — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:30:08 -0000

Do you see anything when you run "locate ndiswrapper.ko"?

Have you previously tried to build ndiswrapper from source? The instructions for doing this on the ndiswrapper site involve removing the existing ndiswrapper module from your kernel. If you've lost ndiswrapper.ko for this (or some other) reason, you'll need to reinstall Ubuntu or find a copy of the file elsewhere.

Re: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Asus Eee Box

Kyros — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:22:18 -0000

I installed both of those package but when I try to run "sudo modprobe ndiswrapper" the module can not be found.

Re: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Asus Eee Box

bmjames — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:12:05 -0000

Have you tried manually adding the access point details (SSID, encryption) in the Network Configuration?

Re: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Asus Eee Box

Alan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:49:42 -0000

The wifi aint workin for me :-( I've added the driver via your method and via the NDISwrapper gui and while it sees the wifi card it offers no way to connect, or even no sign of life. It did work on XP for the breif day I ran it on that aboration lol... Hope we get a native driver soon. Wrappers of all types have been troublesome for me. Love the ee box in general though... might get another.

Re: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Asus Eee Box

topyli — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:54:02 -0000

Thanks for documenting this! Good to know that Ubuntu works well on the eeebox. This little bugger looks like a very nice home server indeed :-)

Re: Ben’s Techy Musings» Blog Archive » Winamp WiFi Remote

Ben — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:14:33 -0000

That is so cool!

Send me the address so I can turn your music on when you're asleep.

:)

Re: Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL on Cygwin

Mark — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:11:03 -0000

Great posting, I will try this procedure too !

Re: HTML/CSS: Buttons are more styleable than Inputs

Mick — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:20:05 -0000

opps, I meant "is there a way that I CAN make the button switch images...."

Re: HTML/CSS: Buttons are more styleable than Inputs

Mick — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:18:48 -0000

Just tried it and it worked great. NOW, is there a way that I can't make the button switch images so it looks like the button is getting
pushed down when it gets clicked?

Re: CSS: Using an image as a form submit button

austen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:14:32 -0000

Thanks Ben - this answered a couple of questions and supplied just the code I needed.

Austen.

Re: HTML/CSS: Buttons are more styleable than Inputs

Paul — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:14:15 -0000

Thank, bookmarking this page. I just used this method, and it seems to be working fine!