http://roger-browne.com/weblog May all your assertions remain true... Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:46:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The delightful N800 internet tablet connects to the internet over Wi-Fi or by Bluetooth through a mobile phone, but it's not always easy to find the correct settings. Open Control Panel, then Connectivity, then Connections, and set up a New connection. For Orange Pay As You Go, these are the settings ... http://roger-browne.com/weblog/2008/07/16/using-the-n800-with-orange-and-o2-pay-as-you-go/ Linux has taken its time to get established on the desktop, but over the past twelve months I've been seeing it all over the place. My wireless router is Linux-based, and even admits as much on the packaging. My Nokia N800 internet tablet runs Linux too. Wal-mart has been selling a budget ... http://roger-browne.com/weblog/2008/01/21/linux-slips-into-the-mainstream/ Recently, a bunch of former Google Answers Researchers launched Uclue, an affordable paid Q&A/Research service. It's somewhat similar to what Google Answers was - you ask your question, set a price, and wait to see whether a researcher can supply your answer (you get a refund if they can't). We couldn't ... http://roger-browne.com/weblog/2007/06/28/the-work-of-others/ Here's what happens when a low-traffic blog like this one is linked to from slashdot.org. And that's just from a link in a comment that I posted to Slashdot. A link from an article would surely melt my server... http://roger-browne.com/weblog/2006/11/18/theres-nothing-like-a-slashdotting/ I found Fedora Core 6 on a cover-DVD of Linux Magazine, which saved me having to download it using BitTorrent. The upgrade apparently went smoothly, although it surprised me that it took an hour and a half. I do have a lot of packages installed though. On rebooting I was unable ... http://roger-browne.com/weblog/2006/11/15/upgrading-to-fedora-core-6/ How do you set up a Free Software project? How do you license it, attract developers, keep the lines of communication open, decide contentious issues, maintain the repository, track bugs, make releases, support users, motivate developers and deal with troublemakers? Karl Fogel describes all this and more in his book Producing ... http://roger-browne.com/weblog/2006/07/31/producing-open-source-software/ Stock photos are images that have been taken in anticipation that they will be useful in the future. When you need a photo of a juicy hamburger or a pink cat, you will find one on a stock photo site. image by Gerla Brakkee Stock photos used to be produced by professional ... http://roger-browne.com/weblog/2006/06/15/free-stock-photos/ After upgrading to Fedora Core 5, the mplayer media player works fine but displays a message "Failed to open ~/.mplayer/default.sub". A posting by ndhskp suggested to create an empty default.sub file, and that indeed got rid of the error message. Somehow, I think mplayer should have worked out how to resolve ... http://roger-browne.com/weblog/2006/06/12/mplayer-and-the-missing-defaultsub-file/ Another WordPress upgrade, and it seems to have gone smoothly. One of my sites uses a modified version of the WordPress files that control user registration, in order to allow AdSense details to be entered. I had to remember to reapply the patch to the new versions of those files. The new ... http://roger-browne.com/weblog/2006/06/11/upgrading-to-wordpress-203/ I decided to upgrade from Fedora Core 4 to 5. After downloading the ISO and burning it to DVD, I made a full backup and booted the DVD to upgrade. Most of the upgrade went fairly smoothly. The only real nuisance was that Fedora Core 5 includes version 8.1.3 of the ... http://roger-browne.com/weblog/2006/04/27/upgrade-to-fedora-core-5/