…and introducing Lenny Linux.

One thing that was annoying, was that my GRUB (which allows me to choose which OS I want to boot [Ubuntu, Win or OS X]) broke after updating.

So I thought a little written instruction to fix it might be helpful for anyone else that runs into this problem.

What you need: Ubuntu 9.10 (or 10.04) installer CD

1. Boot up your computer using the Ubuntu Install CD
2. Select ” Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer “
3. Once the OS is good and ready start Terminal ( Application > Accessories > Terminal )
4. Type “sudo -i” to enter into root mode
5. Run “fdisk -l” to see all of your partitions and hard drives on your machine
6. Look for the /dev/ entry identified as Linux not to be confused with the swap partition
7. Now to create a mount-point for your partition type “mkdir /media/root“
8. Now mount the identified partition into it by typing “mount /dev/sda# /media/root” (sda# being the partition identified in step 6)
9. Confirm your root location by typing “ls /media/root” and ensuing that you see something resembling this:
   

   bin dev initrd.img lib32 media proc selinux tmp vmlinuz
   boot etc initrd.img.old lib64 mnt root srv usr vmlinuz.old
   cdrom home lib lost+found opt sbin sys var
   bin dev initrd.img lib32 media proc selinux tmp vmlinuzboot etc initrd.img.old lib64 mnt root srv usr vmlinuz.oldcdrom home lib lost+found opt sbin sys var

10. If all is well in point 9  install GRUB to the boot partition by typing “sudo grub-install –root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda” which should return

Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /media/root/boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install’. (hd0) /dev/sda

11. You are ready to reboot.
12. If only your Linux partions are showing, do not worry. Boot up your OS, open up terminal again, and run “sudo update-grub2” that should do the trick.

and with that, I whish you a jolly updating season

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Chrome SEO by Sean Bannister

“The Google Chrome SEO Extension. Make your SEO tasks easier with Chrome SEO Tools, includes ‘all’ the stats and data you need.” These are their own words. I like using it to write down initial numbers, then showing off new ones at a later stage. In general a great tool to evaluate SEO efficiency (Or the lack there off when in a pitch).

Webpage Screenshot by Amina

I remember way back when I was at a web shop that shall remain unnamed (but not unlinked off course) there was a brilliant colleague of mine (again unnamed and this time unlinked) that had this awesome tool that would allow him to send any URL into it, and on the other end, lo and behold, a jpeg (maybe a PDF I don’t quite remember)  would come out, and not only of what was visible in the crummy browser window, no the entire page. Head to footer. Well this tool does the same, great when doing a round of QA any type of HTML and CSS.

Pendule by Christian Frey

Is there any developer can really make their way around without the Web Developer tool bar extending so many Firefox Browsers out there? I would think not. And the amount of times that I have tried convincing a colleague about the speed advantage of Chromium, but being told that the web developer tool bar is missing. Well the Pendule extension holds most of the tools I appreciated so greatly from the Web Developer Toolbar.

Firebug Lite by andrei.pervychine

Continuing down the same line, many developers can not do without Firebug either. Though I have never really needed it, as I am a CharlesProxy kind of guy. But just to stuff you on that one two, there is a Firebug for Chromium as well. As a matter of fact there are two separate developers working on an adaptation (maybe time to join forces guys)?

My Shortcuts by Thomas Hunsaker

Though I am still not convinced of the whole cloud hype (now that even Balmer swears to it, something fishy must be going on) I have been using GoogleDocs for a while now, just for it’s portability. Being able to move docs from one workplace to the other without any machine, being able to collaborate on docs etc really speaks for itself. This extensions just ads customizable dropdown of shortcuts to my favorite apps in the google cloud.

Chromed Bird by cezarsa

By far my favorite Twitter client for Chromium. Simple slick, and it does the job, enough said about that. Few words for the extension I have probably been the most faithful to.

goo.gl URL Shortener by giakomino

Why did I choose this URL shortner over the others you ask, well because it was there. And it, like the extension above, does the job. The Options I just started exploring a few days ago, so I will leave it at that.

On a closing note there is one essential extension that I am still looking for. I am looking for a proper delicious implementation. There are, obviously heaps and loads of those that claim they can please me. But so far no good. Yahoo’s own Firefox extension is still the one to measure by, but for Chromium there just isn’t one yet. If you know of any, let me know, also any other extensions you think I should use, please feel free to share…

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for “raw data now” — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.

Viewer: are users who have no authority within the conference; their primary role is to view the presentation as well as chat amongst other participants. In a course the viewer would be the students.

Presenter: has all the same capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading presentations and sharing their desktop

Moderator: has all the capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading presentations and sharing their desktop.

And the beauty of it all being that is open source and free.

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Also looks like there will finally be something to replace the oh-so-missed class generator that existed back in the previous AMFPHP versions.

Seeing Flash Builderm I am still not clear as to what the difference is between the Flex builder and Flash builder. Especially seeing a Flex app being built in Flash Builder. but I am sold on the whole Catalyst/Builder concept since first seeing it over at the labs. Yeas I admit it, I have been dabbling around without in my freetime. No matter what some people say, Flash is not about to die just yet.

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