Gnome 3 DE freezes in Linux Mint
So its been a few days now in the relm of Linux Mint and I seem rather pleased with it, except for one small yet critical bug. Every once in a while the desktop environment of Gnome 3 seems to stall and lock up, with no prior warning. An apparent random freezing. Once this has [...]
Linux: GStreamer Installation is Missing a plug-in
After recently upgrading to Linux Mint (well worth a dabble if you’re bored of your current OS), I restored all my files from the backups I took. One thing I find that is key to working on a computer 24/7, is a large collection of music, played via a good media player. My choice of [...]
Meta X to IE’s Rescue
Compatibilitiy between browsers is always a major issue when developing websites, any web developer should tell you that. The more browsers you want to support, the number of hacks or tricks seems to grow exponentially. There’s always a trade off between development time and number of browsers you want to reach. One of the compatibility issues [...]
Cant enter Linux Wireless Password
Okay so a nice short article on something that was causing me a lot of grief! I came home from work and for some reason unknown to me, over the course of the day my laptop had lost the WPA (WiFi Protected Access) code to connect securely with my home wireless network. Okay a little [...]
jQuery: $ is not a function
Okay so the other day I was adding some much loved jQuery script to a WordPress site but the life of me I couldn’t get even the most basic function to work. I reduced my code down to producing an alert when the DOM was ready, but still it threw the following error: Error: $ [...]
FTP Connection failure with EAI_NONAME error
While trying to use FileZilla FTP client the other day, I copied in a clients details to the configuration panel, hit connect and was shown the following error: Status: Resolving address of XYZ Status: Connection attempt failed with “EAI_NONAME – Neither nodename nor servname provided, or not known”. Error: Could not connect to server Now [...]
Goodbye TweetDeck! Hello… umm TweetDeck?!
Okay so as a regular Linux and Twitter user, I have had to live with TweetDecks partially compatible program for quite some time. I’ve tried using the Twitter site (dull and featureless) and Hootsuite (didn’t agree, felt disengaged), but I’ve always returned to Tweetdeck. Don’t get me wrong, the boys over at TweetDeck have built [...]
jQuery methods: .queue()
So today I came across a bit of a UX problem while using jQuery; I wanted to submit some form content using ajax but the feedback messages were flashing up so quickly they were illegible. The simplified situation I ran into was: The user would submit a form of data using ajax, Content would be [...]
Skype not loading in Ubuntu 11.10 (Error loading libXss)
So it turns out that upgrading to Oneiric Ocelot (Ubuntu 11.10) causes the latest version of Skype to die a painful death. This short little article shows how to get it back functioning again.
Removing Ubuntu’s Unity bar
So it was only earlier this week I put together a post complaining quite openly about the ‘Unity’ shell that now comes with the latest Ubuntu releases, so I thought it was time to say how I managed to remove it and bring back a bit of sanity and usability to my Ubuntu machine. First [...]