I need to work with editing some images programatically and have always favored ImageMagick over GD (to be fair, I haven’t used GD in at least 3 years). In the past, I used php to pipe commands to the command line via exec(), which never felt right. I remember seeing some development work on an […]
I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu Server to the latest LTS and it wouldn’t boot anymore. Did I mention that it was a software RAID 1, and probably not the most intelligent decision on my part since I had to manually set up the RAID 1. I had all the data backed up and decided […]
I am building a new database driven website for fun and decided to check on teh status of Workbench and see if they had a Linux version. As luck would have it, they launched a Linux version a couple of days ago! I downloaded the binary for Ubuntu from MySQL and tried to run it, […]
Ever since I upgraded to Gutsy Gibson (7.10), Open Office has been having problems. It would open fine, but everyime I tried to access the menu, the screen would redraw and the menu would disappear. It wasn’t a huge deal, as I could shortcut most things, such as saving, undoing, bolding and closing the window. […]
In March, I wrote about Firefox’s woeful performance with some javascript heavy sites. I am happy to say, Firefox is performing much better on these sites now that I have upgraded to Gutsy Gibson and Firefox was upgraded. This contrasts with the fact that Firefox seems to be crashing a lot more on […]
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