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Weekly Roundup - November 26th 2007Weekly Roundup - November 26th 2007

Posted November 26th, 2007 in Weekly Roundup

This is my weekly roundup for the week of November 19th to November 25th 2007, where I look back at the posts I made over the past week as well as useful and interesting articles on other websites and blogs that I might have read.

Articles posted on my blog

I recently moved my sites across from a dedicated server to a VPS server, and did the same for one of my customers. Earlier in the month I posted about change the hostname in CentOS but after a reboot the VPS reverted back to the old hostname. Tuesday's post was a reminded to myself to check into this again when we need to reboot the VPS next time.

Wednesday's post was how to fix the error message "C++ compiler cannot create executables on Ubuntu" when running Ubuntu or one of its derivitives.

On Thursday I had had enough of SUSE and had a bit of rant about it, and moved my primary Linux desktop into VMWare so it now runs as a Virtual Machine just like my Windows XP desktop. So now I'm running all my desktops in Virtual Machines on a Linux host.

openSUSE package management tool that is part of Yast is very slow, and I looked at how to install Yum with Yast on Friday and the Kyum Graphical Frontend for Yum on Saturday. These will probably be my last posts for a while featuring openSUSE as I have now moved to Kubuntu for my primary Linux desktop. Now instead, there's going to be a number of new posts about doing stuff in Kubuntu! I've already written several of these and will be posted them over the course of the next couple of weeks.

Finally the round off the week, I look at keyboard shortcuts to switch between running VMWare Virtual Machines now that I'm only doing desktop stuff inside VMWare.

Interesting articles found offsite

PayPal have launched "Secure Card&qupt; which lets you pay by PayPal on sites that don't accept PayPal, with a single-instance Secure Card transaction number. Secure Cards work on Windows computers running either Internet Explorer or Firefox, with partial access to the service for now for Apple's Safari browser. You can read more about this in the article on the New Zealand Herald website.

I don't personally use them, but Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released. I've only done a little .NET programming back in 2003 and 2004 when I was doing some work for Aim Proximity on their email tool.

The Tech Republic article get familiar with alternative Linux desktops looks at Fluxbox and AfterStep as alternatives to the popular KDE and Gnome desktops.

I posted some reviews of the gOS Linux distribution in last weeks roundup, and here's another from Extreme Tech. It's a shame they feel they need to spread the review over multiple pages but I guess they're trying to get a) their pageviews up and b) expose people to as much advertising as possible.

I have completed the Linux Foundation Survey before, and spotted it this year on Slashdot. You can complete the survey until the end of November and the results are already posted online.

Smashing Magazine published several useful articles over the past week: 30 nice blog designs to draw inspiration from, nice examples of pagination, and an article about designing for screen resolution on today's computers.

The next article looks at how to cut an MP3 into multiple pieces. It's specific to Ubuntu, but the utility is probably available for other distros too in their package management repositories.

PHPTAL 1.1.9 was released. This is a templating engine for PHP. I am not currently using this but am currently evaluating it and may use it in some future projects.