Archive for May, 2008

Better VNC viewer in Ubuntu 8.04

May 15th, 2008 – 11:30 am
Filed as: ubuntu

Another post regarding my recent switch to Ubuntu as my primary OS, this one concerns the VNC client/viewer bundled.  I’ve been having problems with Remote Desktop Viewer which is the bundled and preferred VNC client in a default installation of Ubuntu 8.04, I’ve had random freezes and disconnects with a logout/login of my machine sometimes [...]

YouTube GData API returning error 400 when uploading a video

May 14th, 2008 – 11:03 am
Filed as: code

I’ve been battling with the YouTube API for the last 2 days now and found the single line of code that has been preventing me from generating a form upload token.
I was following the example code at http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_php.html#UploadingVideos and kept receiving “Expected response code 200, got 400″ when calling the getFormUploadToken function. HTTP error code [...]

Smarty template syntax highlighting with gedit

May 2nd, 2008 – 5:04 pm
Filed as: code, ubuntu

Update: I have posted an alternative way to do the same thing this post describes, the alternative way should be more reliable. See it here http://www.c3b.co.uk/2008/12/16/alternative-method-for-opening-smarty-templates-with-html-syntax-highlighting-in-gedit/
I’ve started using gedit as my code editor after a couple of niggles with bluefish and wanted my smarty templates (*.tpl) to use the same syntax highlighting as HTML. Not [...]

Flash plugin with Ubuntu

May 1st, 2008 – 4:11 pm
Filed as: networkadmin, ubuntu

I recently installed the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu, version 8.04 aka Hardy Heron, from Vista (which was pre-installed when I bought the laptop)
I managed to switch quite happily, replacing many of the applications I used daily (Notepad++, FileZilla, TortoiseSVN, Winamp) with either their linux counterparts or alternatives (Bluefish, Exaile and I’m going with [...]