I updated my php-clearsilver installation guide today after discovering it’s wrong in a few places. Fortunately, I don’t think anyone’s ever used it (apart from me today.) If you know what clearsilver is and you use php, you might find it interesting. Installing PHP Clearsilver module for apache on Ubuntu and Debian

The Ubuntu UK Podcast show was recently established, someone I met from HantsLUG hosts it and it’s pretty interesting for those of you who are Ubuntu users. Check it out! Ubuntu UK Podcast

Following several guides on setting up a bridge on my laptop between the wireless network interface and VirtualBox for direct networking was simply not working for me. Today after lots of head scratching I finally discovered why. Turns out that the standard bridge utils are no good for most wireless cards, but there is a workaround. Check out this guide, and read under the wireless section: Bridged Networking with VirtualBox on Linux Hosts

Looks like the guys over at Innotek have been busy, probably old news to most but I just realised they’ve released version 1.5 of Virtualbox last year. Among a whole bunch of bug fixes and other improvements it seems they’ve added one cool feature that will make working with those windows only programs much easier - seamless window integration with your host OS (I think that’s linux only, but I might be wrong).

Recently I’ve been using Skype a lot to speak to friends and family in the UK and Australia. It’s pretty good for the following reasons: There’s no need to configure your firewall Everyone else seems to have Skype already It’s pretty good quality wise. The webcam function is really good, especially in full screen Yes, it’s not ideal - it’s a proprietary network and the software is closed source, but on the other hand it just works.