Downgrading Iceweasel on Debian Wheezy
By default, Debian Wheezy installs Iceweasel (Firefox) 10.x. This can break a lot of extensions so, for those who would rather stick with version 3.x, this is how I reverted to the older version.
About Category "Unix"
Unix articles are about the various "flavours" of Unix - Linux, Solaris, BSD, AIX and friends.
Smiffy is a Unix veteran and had been working with it for a few years before he saw his first Microsoft operating system.
Debian for vi users in Australia
As much an aide-memoire for myself as anything, this is a brief post-installation to-do list to get a Debian Linux system working As It Should. (Note that this does not just apply to vi users in Australia - make appropriate substitutions, and you can be an EMACS user in Denmark, if you so wish.)
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Friday, 25th May 2012Vodafone Australia Mobile Broadband - On Linux
What it takes to get a Vodafone Australia prepaid mobile broadband connection working on Linux.
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Thursday, 10th September 2009All Change on the Desktop (Again)
Smiffy starts preparing to migrate to a new Linux distribution. This article explains how and why.
Audience:
developers; those interested in using Linux on the desktop; those considering virtualising various desktop operating systems;
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Saturday, 31st January 2009;last updated on Sunday, 1st February 2009
sql-o-matic
This is about the fourth generation of this programme that I have been using over the last few years to generate SQL and Perl code based on a MySQL database schema. The idea behind this is much repetitive coding can be eliminated - the ouput of this programme can be tweaked/corrected and then cut and pasted into an application.
Audience:
Perl coders
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Tuesday, 16th September 2008VMware - No Developer Should Be Without It
After some ten years since being told about the joys of VMware virtualisation, Smiffy finally gives it a go and wonders how he ever coped before.
Audience:
Anyone who has to work with more than one operating system.
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Monday, 31st March 2008Sun to buy MySQL
Sun Microsystems announces that it is going to buy MySQL AB. That's rather exciting.
Audience:
IT industry, users of Sun and MySQL products.
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Friday, 18th January 2008;last updated on Sunday, 10th February 2008
Perl 5.10 Now Available
Smiffy rejoices at the announcement that Perl 5.10 has been released and finally has a switch statement.
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Thursday, 20th December 2007SmiffyCalc
A command-line calculator, written in Perl, SmiffyCalc offers persistence between sessions. This is a step-up from doing calculations from the command line using perl -e
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Thursday, 29th March 2007;last updated on Wednesday, 17th September 2008
I Love My Linodes Even More
Linode virtual hosting gets a major upgrade - double of everything for the same price.
