Archive for December, 2007
java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: j
I know that that there better things to call a blog post than to use part of an error message that I got from Saxonica‘s Saxon while I was converting XML files into PHP equivalents for the visitor information section of my main website. I use the open source Saxon-B rather than the commercial Saxon-SA [...]
Web Development
Succumbing to Temptation: Ubuntu Studio
The fancy artwork that comes with Ubuntu Studio does look appealing so I got lured into converting my vanilla Ubuntu 7.10 into something a bit more avant garde. The theme’s all very dark (you can have a peek here; file size is 1.1 MB) but it looks very smart, even if the merging of application [...]
iPod, identified
Plug in an iPod to a PC running Ubuntu and it will recognise what it has got. That act mounts the player as a hard drive and fires up the Rhythmbox Music Player. The usual file transfer capabilities are available and it does something that was thwarted partially by iTunes when I last tried it: [...]
It isn’t all iTunes in the UK
The iTunes store was a breath of fresh air following an experience of several OD2 offerings; broken downloads were a regular nuisance but that may have been down to my not having a broadband connection at the time. Its seamless mix of purchasing, downloading and playing impressed me so much that I used no other [...]
AudioA case of bad behaviour?
On my blogs, I use the Bad Behaviour plugin to keep spammers at bay. It usually works very well so imagine my surprise when it started kicking me out when I tried logging into the system. I started to wonder what happened to my IP address… It now turns out that the repository being used [...]
US, not us?
As of the time of writing, Amazon MP3 is only available to customers in the U.S. of A so any enthusiasm for its provision of DRM-free digital music offerings has to be tempered by that limitation on its availability. Apple’s iTunes store offers some but locked down tracks are its mainstay. Amazon’s restrictions aren’t the [...]
Audio