What upgrade I hear you ask? Well it's a really big upgrade, the only snag is that visually little appears to have happened.

My blog is now running on bleeding edge LogicFury, so fresh that my HD is still warm from the file transfer. So what does the upgrade mean? Well to you, bugger all really apart from the introduction of editable user profiles. However for me it means the latest version works and provides another way of testing code and finding bugs. LF is looking pretty stable right now and once I finish porting the forums I'll upgrade the main site and most likely produce a release candidate.

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I have been waiting a while for my t-shirts to arrive that I designed in the GIMP on Jun 12th. I just wanted to test out Cafepress. A site that allows you to upload your own work then will print it onto a t-shirt and send it to you. There are two print methods available, direct print in-which ink is printed directly onto the t-shirt and heat transfer where the ink is printed onto a transfer first. The latter gives crisper more vibrant results but is susceptible to "cracking" with wear.

In total I ordered three t-shirts. One for my sister, the other two for me. One of mine reads "Riddian", for the other there is message on there that I have wanted to see on some form of clothing for a long time. The direct printing quality is pretty decent only I'm guessing it will become faded with successive washes.


All in all it's nice wear your own work on a t-shirt

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I managed to fix an intermediate fault I, and from reading the Ubuntu forums, a few others, were experiencing. The problem is that sometimes the sound would work sometimes it would not. I found I had two sound devices that kept swapping - I only have one card but it was detected twice and one didn't work.

By using alsaconf you can fix the problem.

Code:
asoundconf list

Will show you a list of available cards

Code:
asoundconf set-default-card CARD

Where CARD is the name of your card as is written in the listing from the first command. This command should tell ALSA the sound system which card to use resulting in sound. Why this happens I don't know, I can only assume it happens as a result of my slurry of messings around with Linux as the problem has happened before but only presents itself after a while.

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Qunu, what a great idea! Qunu is a website that, through the power of Jabber, creates a community driven tech support site. Experts volunteer to help people by signing up and adding a the qunu user bot to their existing Jabber account or a new qunu account. The bot then starts a MUC whenever someone initiates a help request with you. This is done by browsing the site for a help term which will return a list of online experts ready to help in the field you have searched for. These searchable fields or "tags" are added by the experts to their profile, for example I have added Ubuntu as one of my tags, but your not limited to predefined tags as I have also added LogicFury and it's possible to add none tech related tags like photography for instance.

The site is very nicely designed and the web based Jabber chat has some fancy Javascript to power it and is very simple to use. Although it's currently in alpha stage I recommend a visit. If you have a good knowledge of something and wouldn't mind helping out then register yourself as an expert. If you need help then ask away! You might get me at the other end

Qunu Alpha

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OK, firstly here's those pics I meant to upload with the last post. I keep meaning to put up more pictures with posts but they are such a pain to do. First you have to get them of your camera, then resize them and create a thumbnail then upload them and finally create the BBcode for them. I'm lazy by nature and this is too much like hard work. I definitely need a shell script to do this for me. Perhaps that shall be my next project

I have now finished all my exams for my first year of uni, got the last one out of the way yesterday. It was a Java exam and altough programming is a hobby of mine this was less of programming and more of theory, which certainly isn't a hobby of mine. I think I have passed but not with a good grade.

Two other things I wanted to mention. The programming section now has a Javascript binary clock for download because I got bored and I may as well mention the site's recent "tweak". Namely the change of background image and header image. I finally took a picture that suited the site (had to wait for a nice day and for the grass to grow) so now I can say every last bit of the site design is truely mine The background image was changed because the site was too green, I felt it needed a contrasting colour, also the background used to be fixed. i.e. it didn't move when you scrolled down the page. I noticed this caused lag on both firefox (though not noticable without monitoring your CPU usage) and lag on my Nokia 770's browser (very noticlable on a slow CPU lol) so that's now gone and the problem resolved.
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Summer projects, I have decided to do a little hacking over the summer. I'm currently working on my own Linux distribution for purely educational reasons. Aside from that I plan to add some more things to the programming page, not entirely sure what just yet and of course there's always LF to do. I'm also thinking of redoing my smilies which I have grown to hate.

Dapper's here, just thought I would quickly mention that Ubuntu Dapper Drake has once again surpassed itself. I have had a good amount of time to test it and it's by far the best Linux distro I have tried to date. So if you tried Ubuntu before and it wasn't quite good enough for you perhaps dapper will be. Besure to check out Ubuntu.com for more info.

A little note for anyone running Ubuntu Dapper, I shall be putting any DEB's I create for Dapper available for public download. At the moment I have compiled the latest pre-version of Muine music player to work with gStreamer 0.10 to save you having to install gStreamer 0.8 (as the version of Muine in the dapper repo depends on it) also there is the Rezlooks GTK engine an example of which can be seen on gnome-looks.org. The DEB's are located here on my server.

UPDATE: I have just upgraded the blog to the latest dev version of LogicFury, this fixes a most anoying bug where cookie based logins were not remembered. So now you should not have to continually login

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