Archive for March, 2009

Women in Linux

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

My wife doesn’t really like linux, she’ll happily use it, but to be honest she’d rather use windows, now this isn’t a problem for me as i do, but it got me to thinking….so i’m currently reading this, perhaps you should too?

It’s also been Ada Lovelace Day, named for the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. It’s interesting to me that while the first programmer was a woman, and all of the ENIAC programmers were women, there are so many more men than women in technology fields nowadays. Ada Lovelace Day is a day to highlight women who rock in the tech world. Since here in FOSS-land, the FLOSSPOLS survey reports that only 2% of developers are women, compared to 28% in the commercial sector, now i’m not going to write about a particular woman, but here is a list of women’s blogs I read quite often in no particular order

Mackenzie Morgan
Emma Jane Hogbin
Celeste Lyn Paul
Elizabeth Krumbach
Miia Ranta
Pia Waugh

Flash 10 – 64bit

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Today i removed Vista from my laptop and dedicated the whole lot to 64bit Fedora 10

All seemed to go ok, until i wanted to play flash read youtube videos from my blog. I needed a plugin, cut to the chase here is how i got it working, quite simple really.

1. Uninstall your existing flash packages
rpm -qa *flash*
sudo rpm -e `rpm -qa *flash*`

2. Download the flash plugin from here Direct link to file

3. Extract the archive and install the .so file
tar zxf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
cp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Restart your browser and see this page on my blog, if you see the video, it’s worked …. Enjoy

Blogging Software

Friday, March 6th, 2009

** UPDATE ** I’ve now found out that this is now old and unmaintained, which is a damn shame :(

Although i don’t update my blog that often, i do like to use a certain application, it’s called Drivel

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It’s simple to install – yum install drivel and easy to use.  The only thing i came accross is that there is no default Journal type for a wordpress blog.  The workaround is as follows 1, select Journal type of “Movable Type” 2, use the url of your xmlrpc.php file in the server address, mine for example is http://www.paulmellors.net/xmlrpc.php

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BLOG AWAY!