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Just uploaded the Ubuntu Web Server Virtual Appliance v1.1.
Added SSL support (OpenSSL, loaded the Apache module and added demo certificate and commented out configuration).

If you’re like me and don’t like having to install all that stuff in every PC you use than this virtual appliance is for you.
Or
If you want to start learning PHP/Ruby on Rails/Django _now_ instead of having to install/configure stuff.
Or
If you’re going to something like Sapo Codebits and want to take the server with you [...]

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The Ars Technica review of Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard is probably not the best out there but I still like it (despite the annoying, unnecessary and presumptuous history lessons) - feel free to leave a link to your favorite review in the comments and I’ll link to it in this post.
Despite that it does contain [...]

There is no easy way to create application shortcuts (a shortcut to an application that may or may not have arguments). It’s extremely easy to do in Windows and Ubuntu (<your-favorite-nix/linux-distro&gt but not in OSX.
I’m sure that as usual, some idiot apple zealot (sorry for the pleonasm) is going to try (yeah try, comments [...]

For those of us who use multiple profiles in firefox, there’s a small surprise in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon - firefox is no longer compiled with -NO-REMOTE as default. What that means is that now you have to pass the -NO-REMOTE option to firefox if you want to use multiple profiles simultaneously. Example:
firefox -NO-REMOTE -P [...]

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta White Paper.
Microsoft’s efforts to provide the best Windows experience ever in Windows Vista did not end with its launch. This white paper describes the ways Microsoft strives to continuously improve Windows Vista. It then introduces Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) and describes how the service pack will fit [...]

In a previous post I explained a way to convert a cue/FLAC to mp3. Recently I had to convert a cue/APE to mp3. While searching for ways to do it I came across this post in the aidanhm’s stuff blog. While it has very few posts (the last one in mid February) it does have [...]

Filipe IMed me this link. That’s great news - it was one of the most important things missing from Ubuntu (in my opinion).
It is such a pain to configure multiple monitors (4 in my case - xinemara if you’re wondering) at the moment. Until you learn how to do it that is. The Nvidia configuration [...]

Back in January I said that I believed Windows Vista would be “usable” in a year’s time or so. After 8 months without any real progress towards that goal (I tried Vista again), I no longer believe that will be the case. I know SP1 will eventually come out but I doubt it can fix [...]

It might not be all that great if a simple action (like say clicking in a thumbnail) does something completely different and not really better than what the user is expecting just to show some eye-candy (like say blank the browser window and display the larger image with a confusing set of icons in non-standard [...]

“It’s great that the iPhone doesn’t need an SDK and we can just write web2.0 apps.”

Good to see Jobs infamous distortion field is still intact - I was afraid it was no longer active now that Apple is treated as a serious company as opposed to the industry joke it had been up until the ipod and the move to intel processors.
To boldly claim what no one in his right [...]

Ever noticed how Microsoft products always seem be to one major version away from working properly and having the features you want them to have or that they said they promised (and been promising for years)?
Links:
Microsoft looks beyond Vista, sees Vienna
Microsoft drops hints about Internet Explorer 8
1990-1995: Microsoft’s Yellow Road to Cairo
Windows 95 and Vista: [...]

FEUP Tags is a bookmark sharing service (like del.icio.us) made available by NEACM to students, teachers and employees of the faculty.
During the past semester’s exam season, having found several links to useful information and software on the Internet (like JFLAP) I began to wonder what would be the best way to share them with my [...]