I was happy to learn about the Living Computer Museum located in Seattle. We headed down for a Sunday to go and see the collection of Retro Computers. I felt like a kid in a candy store it was awesome. There is so many old machines in working order, the cool thing is that they allow you to actually use the machines. We created a punch card from one of the old IBM Punch Card…
I have signed up to participate in the “Teach the Web: a Mozilla Open Online Collaboration for Webmaker mentors” this will run from the 2nd of May until the 30th of June. My main reaon for wanting to participate in the course is to build up my mentoring skill set, learn some new Mozilla tools and to preapre fot he Maker Party 2013. I want to run one in Sydney this year. If you are…
If you want to contact me via irc my main handle is aimee_maree and I can be found on freenode server, most times on #debian or #fedora http://freenode.net/ Two irc clients I recommend; Pidgin > More User friendly nice GUI (both for Linux and PC) http://www.pidgin.im/ for security you will need to add encryption http://pidgin-encrypt.sourceforge.net/ ISSI > Command Line based highly secure not as User friendly as Pidgin but ultra fast and secure (both for Linux and PC)…
This year I purchased an AlienWare MX14… I have waited for one for along time and well this one is lovely… dual hard drives one 32GB SSD and another 1TB SATA drive… Two Video Cards… 32GB of RAM capacity… Three Monitor plugs yes I said three, HDMI, VGA, Mini Display Port… anyways drooling time over and to get to the nitty gritty… I love Linux (shock there right) and whilst I was happy to have…
I recently found a great resource for creating a Joomla 3 template from scratch, I was going to write one up of my own but this one is great and walks you through the steps whilst providing some code; http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla-3/create-template
Currently working on a PHPBB project for a client, thought I would take the time to explain all the if statements used for PHPBB. These are great to add into your style (A Style is a theme/template in PHPBB) You can add these in to help provide additional information to users / guests / admins etc. It also allows you to provide a more customised message to your users. Once example where I have used them…