My girlfriend bought an 8GB Sansa View recently and I've been doing a lot of tinkering with it in Ubuntu 8.04 (both AMD64 and x86). Here is some of the knowledge I've gained in regards to the Sansa View and Ubuntu Linux. Please reply if you know any of this to be incorrect.
In part 1 of the GTK+ and Glade3 GUI Programming Tutorial series, we designed a graphical user interface (GUI) for a GTK+ text editor application. After doing so, we were left with an XML file (tutorial.glade) which described our application's user interface.
In this part of the GTK+ and Glade3 GUI Programming Tutorial series I will be discussing the various programming languages available for GTK+ development. Subsequent parts of this tutorial will cover both C programming and Python programming. With my help, you will have to make the decision of which one you want to learn how to use (or both!).
In part 1 of the GTK+ and Glade3 GUI Programming Tutorial series, we will be designing the graphical user interface (GUI) for a GTK+ text editor application (shown below) which will be used throughout these tutorials. This GUI design will be created using the Glade Interface Designer and is completely independent of the programming language used to implement the design, which will come in subsequent tutorials.
I have written a symbol browsing (function browser, class browser, etc.) plugin for Gedit, the default GNOME text editor. The plugin is based on Exuberant Ctags (ctags.sourceforge.net) which must be installed to use the plugin.
I recently got a laptop to use for web development work when I travel. I wanted a simple way to sync up the data between it and my Desktop computer so that they would both have the same bookmarks, emails, instant message logs, etc. Along comes unison to save the day. It ended up being MUCH easier than I expected.
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I have installed Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" on my brand new Dell Lattitude D830 laptop. These are my install notes. Anything out of the ordinary is discussed here, otherwise the standard Gutsy installation guides and FAQs all applied.
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When I installed Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" on my Dell Latitude D830, the wireless did not work out of the box. Using ndiswrapper, I was able to get it working (Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" on a Dell Lattitude D830) and icon in my notification area at the top-right corner of my screen (nm-applet 0.6.5) would show a list of available WiFi connections and their signal strength.
Note: My BCM4328 wireless card is identified through the 'lspci' command as:
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
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I got a new laptop, a Dell Lattitude D830, which came with Windows XP installed on the entire drive. I needed to resize the partition containing Windows to make space for my Ubuntu install. Along comes GParted LiveCD to make resizing my NTFS partition a piece of cake.
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Here are some commands I use ALL THE TIME when working on a web server through SSH. I'll try to update it as I think of other stuff that comes in handy.
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Just thought I would help out anybody who has this same problem. When using a custom error page to hand 404 errors, you need to make sure you use the local path to the script and not a full URL, otherwise the server needs to use a redirect to get to the page. This will cause a message from Google Webmaster Tools such as "We've detected that your server returns a status of 200 (found successfully) for pages that don't exist. "
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