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SVG and the Future of Web Development
Sitepoint (Meitar Moscovitz) has an interesting article on SVG – SVG Is The Future Of Application Development. The blog item introduced me to the Sun Labs Lively Kernel project amongst other things. I have worked with SVG before – initially just making clipart in Inkscape, and more recently doing some geomapping. I found it clean [...]
Support Creative Freedom and Better Copyright Law
The creative freedom initiative is well worth supporting. Here is a summary and a link: As the natural world meets the digital opportunities are opening up for artists to connect with new audiences across the world. However, with the digitisation of media the lines between use and copy have become blurred. Laws regulating the act [...]
Vinagre remote desktop in Ubuntu
Providing support to relatives is a lot easier when you can shell into their computer remotely. Sometimes you will just want the command line (much faster), and other times you will want to remote into their desktop (you can see user situation easier). Here is one way to set it up when the machines at [...]
Palm m515 and Ubuntu using JPilot
Gnome-pilot looks like a good answer – but only if you want to use evolution. First, gnome-pilot is a gnome product, as is evolution. Thus, I believe, that gnome-pilot will only work with evolution, not thunderbird. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6200523&postcount=3 I ignore the standard “built-in” Palm app under Ubuntu, namely “gnome-pilot” – although it does work well and [...]
Netbeans, PHP and Ubuntu
Netbeans was recommended as a good IDE for PHP in a sitepoint blog item recently. So I thought I’d check it out. The version in the Intrepid repository was a bit old (6.1) so I grabbed the version which included PHP support from the Sun website. The result was a file called “netbeans-6.5-ml-php-linux.sh” which I [...]