Monthly Archives: April 2010

Missing ISO writing in Ubuntu Lucid?

I like to right click .iso files and write them to a CD or DVD, since I really hate large settings dialogs with burning software – far too much stuff to break. I noticed that my Ubuntu 10.4 Beta (Lucid Lynx) was missing the brasero package, and the Write to Disc option in the nautilus

A Bazaar List of Things

So I’ve been doing a lot of work with Bazaar version control. I’ve used it in the past on some projects, and integrated it to keep multiple environments synchronized, but recently I had to do a lot more with it. Here are some questions and answers: What happens if I push a file that already

Cutting the Fat from a MediaWiki Install

Installing a MediaWiki is great, and I try to have a lot of them for different projects. I try to make them as small as possible to avoid using a lot of unwarranted disk space. Here are two quick tips that will take the size of a standard installation from 40 MB to less than

Hello Joomla! A Minimal Joomla Component

Joomla is a nice framework, but indeed it’s quite large and can seem cumbersome. I can’t look away from some of the redundancies and odd naming conventions, however, I don’t think it’s complicated. There are tons of books on the subject, and a lot of them are pure garbage. Heres how you make a Joomla

Compiz Mind Control

I’ve been  looking at the Developer Nanoheadset ($500) by Emotiv and will likely be purchasing one to fiddle with. My first idea was to add a plugin to 0.9.0 so that we can have a Brain Input, much like the keyboard and mouse input dialogs now. You could map some kind of brain activity, such