Despite of being around for years, adoption of GNU/Linux based operating systems in the mainstream desktop has been slow. But now it is getting more coverage thanks to distributions such as Ubuntu, and for being included with some new computers from manufacturers such as Dell.
More people are asking what can I run on it, and what do I use for writing documents, editing photos etc. In this series of articles I will cover a number of common use applications that should be relevant to most people. I’ll start with the mostly used applications in todays average computer. Read the rest of this article »
In a previous article I showed you how easy it is to create a constrained fluid layout i.e. one with a minimum and maximum widths. While this works on all standards compliant browsers, it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer 6. Read the rest of this article »
When I was looking for a way to highlight the author comments in this wordpress template I was creating, I had a search on google. Most of the results were Read the rest of this article »
Microsoft are looking to punish web users and developers by releasing another broken version of internet explorer in its 8th incarnation. They say they are helping people by not making it standards compliant, that people want things to remain the same. Well, web developers have to work bloody hard to make sure their content looks nearly as presentable in IE as it does in standards compliant browsers.
They say that if they start following standards, the web pages of their current userbase will no longer look right. That’s the same argument they’ve been using since version 6, and if they carry on, the issue will still remain in 10 years time. Read the rest of this article »
If you edit any of the wordpress system files or even just the functions.php of a template, make sure there are no spaces before the <?php or after the ?>.
If you do, it’ll just cause you grief. Some pages will be visible while others will have the following error:
Cannot modify header information - headers already sent
I guess it happens because functions.php is included before it sets the http headers. I haven’t looked at the code enough to figure out where the header is written, so no leading or trailing spaces in wordpress system php files!
If your (onboard) sound hardware doesn’t seem to be working even after you’ve made sure the correct modules are loaded and the system can see the relevant hardware, you probably just need to run alsaconf, to setup alsa to use it.
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