In Alarms in Ubuntu, I published a script that lets you set an alarm from the command line, nice and easy. One thing was lacking though: visual notification of the alarm, so if you happen to be away from the computer when the alarm sounds you’ll still see the dialog box. To achieve that I’ve [...]

I’ve been looking for a while for a good, easy to use, easy to install, no fuss alarm clock. Just something I can set to go off in 10 minutes. Or at 2 o’clock. Or tomorrow. I haven’t found any apps that did that in a nice and easy fashion. I have found several that [...]

As promised in PHP 5.2.x and 5.3.x side by side here’s a script that switches not just the php module for Apache but also the command line version
#!/bin/bash
# This script relies on you having two copies of libphp5 in /usr/lib/apache2/modules/
# – libphp52.so and libphp53.so
# as well as two copies of php in /usr/bin/
# – php52 [...]

A while ago I ripped out my PHP 5.2 installation (nicely handled by apt-get) in favour of manually installing 5.3 so I could play around. Yesterday I then installed Ubuntu 9.10 (info and download at ubuntu.com) and after quite a lot of installing I suddenly found myself without a working development environment. The cause was [...]