I often see people struggling with Linux permissions (Aka "permissions hell"). But the fact is with a little explanation, Linux permissions are actually rather simple. So I'm going to write a little article to explain how they work.
To demonstrate, I've created a file called "file". We can check it's permissions by using "ls -l file", for example
Well sort of new anyway, I just upgraded to Drupal 7. Some bits are still a bit broken. I'm planning on pulling all the sites up on Drupal 7 and doing some cool things with that. I cleaned out all the spam and installed Mollom anti spam to curb it all. Hopefully that's the last of that :)
There's no bug tracker for Drupal 7, which is sad. Havn't quite decided what I'll do to work around that as of yet. Probably just a forum thread as I want to keep things dead simple for the game user crowd and a traditional bug tracking system is a bit daunting for them.
I realize this is a bit of a rant post, but I feel that when a large community does something very wrong, it should be brought to the public attention. I'm going to explain to you some recent events that happened to me and my friends in the bukkit community.
Update 24th Feb 2012
Just feel the need to point out most of this info is out of date now.
They've changed their companies name to Pinion
The video continuing to play is more or less fixed. It automatically stops as soon as you join a team. This does mean it'll continue after you close the MOTD, but stop as soon as you select which team you are joining. To my knowledge there is no better way of fixing this as there are no hooks that I could find for when the MOTD closes so all good :)
I bought one of these for my mom from amazon for £99, brand new. You can get it from Orange too for the same price, but they make you purchase a £10 top up so the total price comes to £109. She can't use it until next month when her contract expires, so I've had an opportunity to play around with it and put it through it's paces.
In my last post I had a lot of problems with T-Mobile, so I switched. My new provider allows VOIP so this opened the gateway for some fun. I now have around 300 telephone numbers, all over the world. I'm a local call from most places.
A couple of days ago I woke up to this article on slashdot explaining that T-Mobile was cutting my mobile broadband allowance from 3GB to 500MB, or 83% Less. T-Mobile justify this saying that 'If you want to download, stream and watch video clips, save that stuff for your home broadband,'. I find this rather funny, as on the same basis we should all just not bother with phones at all, we can always talk next time we see them, right?
Recently I've had to give this lecture a lot. So I figured it was about time I wrote a blog post about it.
I keep seeing a lot of people talking about how they get 200FPS in games, and how it is so much better than those with 60FPS, blah blah. These people are quite simply wrong. Allow me to explain...
Recently I purchased a nice refurbished netbook, the Asus EEE PC 1001P from ebay seller buyit247-shop for £167. Just before purchasing I called customer support to ask when it would arrive, they informed me that it would arrive Friday (I was ordering Wednesday evening, so pretty fast delivery) customer support was nice and fast, straight to the point. Good stuff :)
I went on Ebay and purchased a 16GB USB Pen drive for £10, when it arrived, it turned out to be 8MB, dmesg reports "[321252.688535] sd 20:0:0:0: [sde] 16384 512-byte logical blocks: (8.38 MB/8.00 MiB)"
