April 2009
3 posts
upgrading Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 to 9.04
I finally upgraded Ubuntu on my IBM T43 laptop. I was waiting for 9.04 because I heard lots of problems about the 8.04 to 8.10 upgrade process but then I found out I had to upgrade to 8.10 before I could get to 9.04 - so it goes.
The upgrade went smoother than my previous one though.
Sound: sound stopped working but I was expecting this because PulseAudio caused this in the previous upgrade,...
electric bikes review
there are lots of interesting electric bikes. i found a good comparison at http://www.electricvehiclesnw.com/main/ebike-comp.htm i like the following models:
Giant Twist DX & Twist Lite - $2,100 & $1,700
eZee Forza - $2,200
iZip - one of the cheaper ones at $600 because it uses SLA and not Lithium Ion batteries which are cheaper and shorter lasting and heavier
Optibike - the 850XLi...
Basic XSL & Ajax Tutorial
Some simple programming examples of XSL & AJAX: XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) (see http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/ ) XSL is a style sheet language for XML documents. It describes how to display an XML document of a given type, so in a way it is similar to CSS but it adds a transformation language for XML documents called XSLT which is most often used to transform XML data into HTML but...