Hello to OSSMichigan.org! I’m a new “face” on the planet, and I wanted to start things out by saying thanks to Milosz Tanski for opening the door to me and my ramblings on tech and open source! I’m an open source fan-boy and tech enthusiast, general tinkerer and tech support for all of my computer-illiterate…
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Anything technological (soft or hardware). This includes all topics open source: Apache web-serving, Drupal, Ubuntu.
NousTweeting!
Just a quick note to say that I have gone and got myself a Twitter account, and added a wee little Twitter feed to my site (over on the right, there), and that there Twitter feed will have not only my Tweets, but will also have new posts from NousEssece, so if you don’t want…
New Site Feature: Gravatar!
Today finds this site Gravatar enabled. What is Gravatar you ask? From the site: “A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not…
What I like and why I like it – sqlitebrowser
Here is the start of a new series on NousEssence: What I like and Why I Like it. It basically works like this: Anything I happen upon that sparks a little light in my eye, or causes a wee spring in me step gets put in here. In time, this will be an additional component…
NIGHTMARE UPGRADE!!!((With a Silver Lining))
I have been unsuccessfully trying upgrade my home desktop computer to the latest Ubuntu release: “Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex” for over 24 hours..here is a record of my epic ordeal… I suppose you can guess how happy I am that I just migrated my websites and services to a separate box…sigh, this all began innocently…
Migration Season
Soooooo I migrated servers over the last few days. I got me a fairly inexpensive box, threw Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on it, and migrated all of my assets over to it. There should not have been any down time, the actual switch over should have taken about 2 seconds even though the process ended…
New Site Feature!! Comment Notify!
Just a quick note to commemorate the addition of a nifty new feature from the module Comment Notify. Now you can receive email notifications when someone adds a comment to a post that you have commented on…and the best parts: 1. You don’t need an account to sign up for these notifications, 2. you can…
“OMG! Help!” or “How to Regain Access to Your Ubuntu Computer Once You Have Lost Your User Name and Password!”
So, have you ever lost a password? Ever forgot your user name after coming up with something pretty nifty that is so unique you could never possibly forget it? Ever bought a used computer off Craigslist with Ubuntu installed and forgot to ask the user name and password? Yeah, well rather than going through the…
Anti-SPAM! or How I secured NousEssence
SPAM! Why should I have to worry about spam, right? This is a pretty low traffic site (sigh) and who’s going to spam on me? I had a post a bit ago about passing a spam right of passage and enabling a bit of security to get around it. Well, the spam dude was not…
PSPP – Open Source Statistics (Moving Towards an Open Educational Experience)
Anybody out there who has ever had to analyze any statistical data in any serious way or take a class on stats has been introduced to the mighty SPSS , or Statistical Package for the Social Sciences in long form. This is software which was designed for, is standardized by, and expected for your use…