As any reader of this blog will know, I am a big fan of installing from source. My OS of choice, Slackware, makes this very easy and doesn’t break anything if you do this. I am, though, well aware that this isn’t for everyone – in fact, I break my own rule if it’s convenient. [...]
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Installing KMyMoney
Windows users have long had the very well known apps MS Money and Quicken to enable them to manage their finances. Both have been around for a number of years and are mature products in software terms. Those of us running Linux, however, have our own options. If you really need either of the 2 [...]
Writing a Book? Use WordPress
Slightly misleading title maybe. If you have written a book (or books) and would like to put it online, you can use WordPress (either .com or .org) to organise the book to make it readable. These instructions will probably also work on other blogging platforms, but please check your software first and make necessary adjustments.
Amarok Installation
Just like everyone else, I like to listen to music. I have an iPod for when I’m on the train or walking and I have my music files stored in iTunes. Unfortunately, Apple have so locked down their proprietary format that you just can’t listen to your music in the native format on non Windows [...]
Upgrading WordPress via the Shell
Following on from today’s security upgrade announcement, I have come across a blog post which explains how to upgrade WordPress using the shell. I put this here, because I think it follows on nicely – if you fear the shell (and you shouldn’t), this takes away a lot of the cruft and just gives you [...]
Good Looking Slackware Fonts
For a while now, I have been using the article at http://brendan.sdf-eu.org/articles/antialiasing_slack.php to set up antialiased fonts on my Slack box. Today, I went to the site and couldn’t access it. So, in the interests of … well, my own interest really, I have rescued the article from the Wayback Machine (a great resource) and [...]
