Category Archives: Software

And here is WordPress 3.0

Posted on Saturday, 19 June, 2010 by fnx

Upgrading to 3.0 was quite a pleasant experience. Well, aside from apparently being hacked at the same time, that is.

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Send files to a bluetooth device from Linux

Posted on Thursday, 13 May, 2010 by fnx

Short and sweet, this one.  I think nautilus tries to be clever and produce a “send to bluetooth” menu option when you right-click on certain file types.  I’ve never had this work terribly well, if at all, so I’ve added … Continue reading →

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Fedora 12 and amazonmp3

Posted on Sunday, 9 May, 2010 by fnx

Just discovered that the rather nifty amazonmp3 utility supplied by Amazon to do its MP3 downloads still only supports up to Fedora 11 (among other Linux distros), and won’t run on my Fedora 12.  Fortunately, it’s fixable.

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Firefox 3.6 refusing to start

Posted on Wednesday, 7 April, 2010 by fnx

I started having an issue on my Linux box shortly after firefox 3.6 came out:  it simply refused to start.  It’d try, but then just quit, without ever displaying anything or printing any errors.

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Thunderbird failing to update extensions

Posted on Friday, 3 July, 2009 by fnx

So for a while I’ve been getting “An error occurred while trying to find updates for xxx” when looking for Thunderbird extension updates.  A bit of a Google has shown me the fix, so I thought I’d share.

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Custom MediaWiki functions

Posted on Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 by fnx

I run a wiki at work, and have done for a few year, but it’s only recently I’ve started getting down and dirty with customisation.

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Custom Visualisers in Visual Studio

Posted on Monday, 31 March, 2008 by fnx

I have, for a while, known about Visual Studio’s autoexp.dat file, which allows one to customise how various classes are previewed in the debugger.

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