Hi faithful readers, I haven’t deserted you or JournalXtra. I’m still about but have had to slow down while I concentrate on an event we are organizing and sponsoring to benefit a cancer charity local to Boston in Lincolnshire, England. The event will be held on the 28th August 2010 (this coming Saturday) and I … Read more
Last week I installed Ubuntu Linux onto my 12 year old nephew’s laptop. He’d pestered me to do it for a while and this time when he came to visit he brought his laptop with him so I could get it working in ways that Windows never could. He wanted his laptop to work faster … Read more
I had the pleasure of installing Ubuntu onto two old computers this weekend. One laptop and one desktop. Both resistant to Doctor Lee’s orders. The Ubuntu graphical installer is poor at detecting and setting up old graphics cards and monitors. It is a strange and frustrating problem because once Ubuntu is installed it detects and … Read more
For those of us who like to use highly customizable free WordPress themes like Suffusion and Thematic, there is some good news today: Atahualpa 3.5.2 is available for download. Unfortunately (did you guess that was coming?), Atahualpa 3.5.2 has a serious bug that causes server CPU and memory usage to skyrocket. I’ve tried Atahualpa 3.5.2 … Read more
One of the most common issues to afflict most web developers who try to enable WordPress Multi Site is WordPress’s insistence that subdirectory blogs cannot be setup. The message WordPress throws up to show its dominance over afflicted web developers is: Because your install is not new, the sites in your WordPress network must use … Read more
I had a bit of a surprise yesterday, I logged into one of my sponsor filled autoblogs only to find it wasn’t there! My server and WordPress had conspired to perform an amazing disappearing multi site act! Those guys, they make me laugh…with hysterical cries of despair!