Archive for the 'rant' Category

Can’t upload images to a Wordpress blog?

If, like the guys in the ORG HQ, you find yourself unable to upload images in a Wordpress Blog, and are befuddled by the reams of posts &c on the web, well, here’s another idea that might sort you out:
Remove the crap from old installs, in your ~/.mozilla directory. And by crap, well, I mean:

appreg
mozver.dat
pluginreg.dat
plugins/

cd [...]

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OS Updates

Dontcha just hate doing them?
Particularly when there’s the whole big fun of package updates, and it taking about six iterations of the various tools to get things up and running properly again?
Ach well. Mainly done now. Urfgh.
Shame about freebsd-update(8) not wanting to play ball: my guess is that the SINGLE SERVER was over-loaded.

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4oD, VMWare, Grrrrrrrrrr.

Ok, let’s start off with saying I’ve not used “Windows” properly for about 4years, now, having ditched it in favor of umbungo, on my home machines.
The exception to this is that I use VMWare for when I need to use Windows, e.g., to do stuff in Visio, or sort out something like Page Breaks & [...]

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