If you're using Python for any kind of serious development virtualenv is highly recommended as a way to sandbox dependencies and allow you to run different libraries and or python versions for different projects. For more on Virtualenv and how to use it see VirutalEnv on PyPi I wanted a…
If you've found a fancy colorscheme for vim and you want to try it out, once you've saved the colorscheme file to ~/.vim/colors you can enable the theme with the following in a vim session's command mode: :colorscheme fruity If you want the colorscheme to be permanent then you…
Note: I'm using VirtualBox 2.1.4 PUEL edition. With other versions YMMV. See comments for more info. Note: If you're using VBox 3.x then Howto: SSH into VirtualBox 3 Linux Guests is more up to date. On Ubuntu I've been using VirtualBox as the solution for cross-browser testing…
I've recently switched to using Ubuntu full-time as my primary operating system having previously used Macs for the last 4+ years. Moving over to ubuntu has been easy enough, I bought a lenovo R61 which has extremely good compatibility with Ubuntu out of the box. I've had very few issues…
All you need is a mount point e.g: mkdir /media/ and then use the following: truecrypt /path/to/truecrypt/diskimage /media/. This is handy when you want to mount a truecrypt image at start-up or just do it quickly from a shell. It's far more direct than using the…
I've been using Visor (the drop-down Quake style terminal) for a little while and recently discovered the development of the project has moved to github from it's original home at blacktree. The latest versions of the app fix a lot of the annoying niggles with the last blacktree versions. Well…
Domino's recently put out an advert featuring a group of guys trying to eat Piri-Piri pizza only to be constantly interrupted by a bunch of musicians. The FAIL here is a cultural one in that the musicians are are supposed to be Portuguese but are dressed as Mexicans!…
Take the following code; will the text in the span be underlined? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="…