Software
Ubuntu 8.04
I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04. The display card driver doesn’t work quite well. I am now unable to engage Compiz. Very Very weird.
Wordpress and Drupal
I played with Drupal and Wordpress for a while, and am seriously considering moving to Drupal. To single users, Wordpress is easier to use but Drupal is more flexible.
Post sorting
Wordpress can only list posts in reverse chronicle order. Drupal has other ways. For example, its book module is something that Wordpress does not have.
Humanized url
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Missing Toolbar After Upgrade Wordpress
I recently upgraded from Wordpress 2.3.0 to 2.3.1. There was no toolbar on the Write Post panel. I solved the problem by,
deactivate all plugins,
download the current theme and all plugins,
delete from the sever everything except “wp-config.php” file, “htaccess” file and “wp-content/upload” folder,
upload Wordpress to the sever,
upload the current theme and all plugins,
activate all plugins, and
clean […]
VCD on Ubuntu
Finally, I know what Ubuntu cannot do. It cannot play VCD. Searching the internet shows that it is a bug of Ubuntu. Linux is not popular for a reason. Sometimes its bug is surprisingly elementary. It should not exit.
The solution is surprisingly easy: simply install mplayer and use it to play VCD. Every time an […]
Future of Firefox and Linux Binds Together
To compare Linux and Windows is meaningless. You must have useful programs to run, or no one will try out Linux, even if it could beat Windows in every aspect. I tried Red Hat Linux in 1998 and quickly gave up, simply because there was no useful program. Most importantly, the browser, Netscape, got distorted […]