Stories of Linux, Web Dev & My Life
Okay, so after digging around for solutions to get Ubuntu running just a little faster, I found one that makes my applications run at amazing speeds. I didn’t think it would actually work as well as it did.
sudo mousepad /etc/hosts
Change the line:
127.0.0.1 localhost
To:
127.0.0.1 localhost yourhostname
Well, since Kurt Vonnegut passed away, I thought I could make everyone laugh just a little bit. (Everyone as in “Who reads this Blog”).
With alot of the technical classes that I have taken in the past, I use Adobe Photoshop. (I think during those times we where on version 4 or 5). Well, I had a chance to use Adobe Photoshop CS 2. Not half bad. I was impressed with the ideas that those Adobe folks can come up with. Well, on the other hand I develop all of my site using linux. GIMP 2.2 what I have been using to make those simple images on my sites look nice and fit. The GIMP’s features are right up there with Adobe. When you look at the price. You just cannot be free. Thanks GIMP. Thanks for making my life easier. (I could go into more detail on the differences, but…I don’t want to).
During my daily use of linux, I use the terminal anywhere from 2 to 10 tens a day. Found a great little program. Tilda. I setup the hotkey (F10) and it drops down for quick use and hardly takes up any memory. Highly recommended.
Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install tilda
Others: tilda.sourceforge.net/
Where do I start. I have actually pulled out hair over this issue. I have been designing my sites using; Bluefish Web Dev, IglooFTP and viewing in Swiftfox (Firefox 2.0.0.3). Now, after initial creation of the site, everything looked just fine. All of my divs,etc were in the right place. Now after the first version of the site, I wanted to do some maintaince and refine a little. Well, I made all of the revisions. Then I ran into a problem. Internet Explorer 6/7 decided it would be a great idea to not display certain boxes (divs) in the correct locations.
So after exploring my options, I found a nice solution. It does not make your CSS2 Validate. But, it does the trick. Let’s say you have a div that the width exceeded what it should of in IE.
CSS2 Compliant.
.mydiv { width: 20px }
IE FIX.
* html .mydiv { width: 15.5px }
Worked great for a number of IE related problems. Width, Font Sizes, Etc.
Well, I am not much of a Flash fan. Probley, becauase I have been using linux for awhile and the support for Flash hasn’t been great to any degree. (We just got flash 9 not to long ago). But FJAX is a great idea.
Fjax is an open, lightweight, cross-browser methodology for Ajax-style web 2.0 development
Fjax is a technique focused on drastically streamlining the XML handling layer of web 2.0 applications. Picture Ajax’s XML parsing and handling with less than 65 lines of code! It’s not a replacement for toolsets that provide presentation-layer visual gizmos. Think of it as a new engine to put under the hood of all the great widgets that are already out there.
Our goal in sharing this with the web building community is to open some doors of possibility by introducing a much more nimble way of getting things done. Call it web 2.1. And not only can Fjax make development faster, but we hope to see its simplicity make it possible for everyone to get to play. Want the straight poop? Read the Fjax Overview.
Check it out. Worth a shot.
This has to be one of my favorite clips from Family Guy.
Now, tell me how hard it is to find a job? I felt like I needed to rant a little bit. I am not looking for a technical job as of right now. I wouldn’t mind picking up another site, but as of right now, I want to be doing what I have been doing the last 8 years. Restaurants or Cafes. It is just funny to me that I cannot find a job with my qualifications. And the search continues…
Damn! When I install Ubuntu Edgy, everything worked out of the box for me on my Dell Inspiron 6000 (1.73ghz, 1gb RAM, i915 Video, ipw2200 wireless). It was nice. The wireless worked no problems (Fedora 3-6 I had to configure Network-Manager and install firmware). Suspend & Hibernate worked just fine. Well, after about three weeks, I had this problem, where I didn’t do any updates & install anything new. I was happy with my system as it was. But, the suspend/hibernate functions quit working.
When, I would suspend, it would goto standby just fine. Then I would either open the laptop lid or press the power button to start it back up, and it would hang when trying to load the X Server. Now, I looked at every possible problem. Maybe, my grub settings where wrong, an error in the xorg.conf file or how about the /etc/defaults/ folder?
Today, I had a few minutes to play around with it. Later today, I have a meeting and not a lot of battery life, so I wanted to have the presentations all ready to go, then resume. I played around with the VBERestore=true option in the xorg.conf file. No difference. After going through all of the system logs, I noticed ‘Resume Failed’ after trying to load the ieee architecture with works with the ipw2200 wireless drivers. So I played around with the /etc/defaults/acpi-support file. I added ‘STOP_SERVICES=”network-manager 915resolution”. And nothing. So then I added ‘nm-applet’ to the STOP_SERVICES. Works like a charm. No more problems, suspends & hibernates.
Well, I have been playing around with a site search engine that will crawl the company’s /catalog directory and display results with the image and a brief description of the product. I have played around with few engines.
http://www.perlfect.com/freescripts/search/ (Looks promising)
http://www.scriptsearch.com/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=4840 (Also, looks promising)
The search continues…
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