The 8th version of Ubuntu has now been released! Notable inclusions are..
- Linux Kernel 2.6.24
- Xorg 7.3 (Latest)
- GNOME 2.22
- Firefox 3 Beta 5
Its interesting to see that they’ve given some
of their older applications an overhaul. It now includes the Brasero CD burning utility which replaces Serpentine. They’ve also included the GTK front-end bit-torrent client Transmission and added a new VNC viewer called Vinagre. If…
Heres a quick tutorial on how to stream internet radio, in particular shoutcast, through VLC media player. Most people stream through Windows Media Player or Winamp, but if you like Open Source applications like me, heres how you do it.
File -> Open Network Stream
Select the HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS box and in the form, enter the URL of the shoutcast server, with the port. In…
In nearly all of my PHP tutorials you’ll see me using the secure function to sanitise incoming user data from things like forms, and $_GETs . Its a small function, which no doubt alot of you already have, but here it is anyway.
function secure($string) {
$string = strip_tags($string);
$string = htmlspecialchars($string);
$string = trim($string);
$string = stripslashes($string);
$string = mysql_real_escape_string($string);…
There are alot of remotely hosted systems out nowadays, Zetaboards, SMF for Free and the series of IPB 1.3.1s. If you want to edit the looks of your board you need to use Javascript since you can’t access the source PHP files. You can work your way around using getElementById and the likes, or you can use jQuery. Here are…
Heres a tutorial on how to use the apt-get package management system in Debian and its derivitives such as Ubuntu and Knoppix. I will cover command line use of apt-get, the aptitude program and the Synaptic Package Manager. I wrote all of this myself, feel free to link to here but do not copy and paste it.
Debian uses apt-get package…
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