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I have a new Dell Precision M6500 laptop. It replaces my 4 year old Dell XPS M1710.

I'm not a big fan of the new default theme in Ubuntu 10.04. It's a bit too much I-wanna-look-like-Apple IMHO.

Fortunately the bisigi project contains a couple of really nice themes that you can use instead. Check them out.

After a recent update on my Ubuntu server some directories had disappeared from a couple of Samba shares.

I have released an open source Twunch application for the Android platform.

After upgrading a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 the machine was so slow it was barely usable. top was showing a load average of 7 after opening Firefox or OpenOffice.

Both drush and rsync are handy tools to automate the deployment of Drupal sites. You just have to be careful how you combine them.

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) some buttons no longer work in Eclipse 3.5. Clicking has no effect but keyboard shortcuts still work.

If you are running pidgin-facebookchat make sure you keep an eye on your bandwidth usage.

One of the scripts in my bag of tools to check whether a site is still up and running is content-check.pl. This little script compares the hash of a web page against a previously created reference hash. If the content of the web page has modified, this script will detect it and send an email.