Really Simple PHP Counter

To make your own free page hits counter to display at the bottom of your page, place this bit of PHP code in the footer of your page and, optionally, style table id php-counter (162 Bytes):

OMG! Unity is Horrible! What Do I Do?

If the search terms that have been bringing visitors to my first review of Ubuntu 11.04 are to be used as a measure of what people think of Natty then I would be understating when I say that not many Ubuntu users are happy with Ubuntu’s new Unity Shell. Let me just say that a lot of people are doing a lot of cussing about Natty.

Who can blame them. The taskbar is unmovable, the application menu is a mess and individual window menus are non existent. It just isn’t an interface that people can… interface with. 11.04 is, well, natty.

There are solutions…

How to Display Different Content to Visitors from Different Sites

Every now and again you might want your website to display different information to visitors who arrive at your site from specific URLs. You might want to tell visitors from Digg to digg you again or maybe you want to give a big welcome to visitors from Google and a big kick up the ass to visitors from Yahoo! (not that I have anything against Yahoo!). You might even want to serve different reciprocal links and ads to visitors from different sites.

Tailoring content to different visitors is easier than you might think.

Ubuntu 11.04 – What Have They Done?!

My imagination has been racing with ideas about how great Ubuntu 11.04 will be when finally released. Unable to contain my enthusiasm any longer I decided to download Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 and give it a whirl on my newly built AMD quad core PC. I am absolutely flabbergasted at how shit the new Natty … Read more

Extra Repositories for All Ubuntu Distros

Never again worry about searching for extra Ubuntu repositories. From this point on, this will be your one-stop-shop for getting any of the repositories mentioned in JournalXtra posts. Through this page you will have access to repositories for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu and other distros whether running on i386, AMD64 or (to  some extent) PPC … Read more