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This is a quick post to save people from the confusion I just went through…

Issue: Django raises a validation error for a blank field that is set to allow blank and/or null (more…)

This is for Linux users who are having trouble changing the browser Thunderbird uses to open links with. Or users who want to stop all applications using their old browser, for whatever reason. (more…)

After spending a few minutes looking for a nice, light weight, “Verse of the day” program for Linux, I decided I’d taken too long and wrote my own.

It grabs the verse from the Bible Gateway feed and prints it. Very simple. But used in conjunction with something like Zenity, it serves it’s purpose quite nicely. I run mine as a startup program, so it shows it whenever I login. (more…)

This will probably be really obvious for some, but for the rest of us!

If you’ve tried transferring songs to your iPod in Banshee and found them unplayable, it’s likely you haven’t got the required GStreamer libraries. (more…)

SMH’s Digital Life recently published a great video on the not-so-great video camera. It was very satisfying hearing someone confirm what I’ve been thinking for a while now.

Most notably: Missing out on enjoying something because you’re too busy taking a video of it, that you’re never going to watch anyway! (more…)

When using a keyboard’s media keys in Xfce, you might find that the volume buttons are too sensitive. By default, the volume keys will affect the volume by 10%. This can be changed in the keyboard shortcut settings: (more…)

If you’re like me, you’re editing scripts more often than you’re using them. So it only makes sense to make the default program for a file type an editor rather than an executer. But while doing this, you may run into a little problem if you’re running them from Window’s Command Prompt. (more…)

If you’re looking for a mysterious Ubuntu menu item called “Shared Folders”, found in:

System -> Administration -> Shared Folders (more…)