Category: Open Source

  • WordPress 1.5 theme Rubric updated

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    I received an email through the Contact form on this site from a Jean Mahserjian. Unfortunately Jean forgot to give me his/her email address so I couldn’t reply – Jean’s mail was as follows: Tom, I downloaded your rubric theme to use with wordpress v. 1.5. But, I must be missing something basic on the…

  • Problems using WordPress as a CMS

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    I have started using WordPress as a CMS for this site and it has presented some challenges which I hadn’t forseen. Some of those I have resolved and some I am still working on. One issue I have resolved is that the title of this blog “Tom Raftery’s I.T. views” – is not the same…

  • WordPress theme Rubric updated for WordPress 1.5

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    I had a WordPress template called Rubric on my WordPress 1.2 site. I hacked it a bit to work for me (adding css to show Amazon links within posts etc.). On upgrading to WP 1.5, I followed the very straightforward upgrading old WordPress templates instructions and suddenly I had Rubric in WP 1.5. I have…

  • Solaris 10 reviewed

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    Narayan Newton ‚Äì Mad Penguin‘s Systems Administrator has written one of the first comprehensive reviews of Solaris 10. Solaris 10 is the latest version of Sun‘s proprietary operating system and has been causing a lot of interest in the open Source world since Sun surprised everyone by releasing Solaris 10 as Open Source in January…

  • Free backup utility for Mac OS X

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    Matthew Phillips wrote a piece on how to backup your Mac using a free utility called RsyncX. The article goes through different backup scenarios in detail and will be useful for anyone who wants to backup their Mac. RsyncX is downloadable from VersionTracker. More info on RsyncX and its author Kevin Boyd is available here.

  • Internet Explorer use falling further still

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    I note that eWeek are reporting that usage of Microsoft’s internet Explorer has fallen another 1.5% to 90.3%. Of course, what is amazing, to me, is that over 90% of people are still using internet Explorer! Still, I shouldn’t complain, a lot of my business these days is coming from people whose PC’s have been…

  • AuthImage error – Call to undefined function: imagettftext()

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    I was using AuthImage – Keith McDuffee’s fantastic WordPress plugin to prevent comment spam. I wrote about the process which led me to install this plugin last year. Recently however, I realised that there was a problem with the plugin – it wasn’t displaying the code for commenters to enter, so no-one was able to…

  • Firefox extensions for displaying Google Page Rank

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    I looked through the various extensions for Firefox when I upgraded to version 1.0 to find new toys! I came across a very handy extension called Search Status which displays both the Google and Alexa page rank of the webpage being browsed. Now I note Michele has also found a Firefox extension with similar functionality.…