Sprayfly

When trying to set up the 3D Cube effect in Ubuntu 8.04 I noticed that the Cube worked but only had two sides (2D Square)!

I discovered that because as a default there are only two workspaces in Ubuntu, hence there are only two sides of the ‘cube’.

To increase the number of workspaces (to 4):
Right Click on Workspaces (bottom-right corner of screen) –> Preferences –> Increase Columns to 4

Now try rotating the Cube again (Ctrl + Alt + Left/Right)

After messing around with custom kernels today on my Ubuntu installation I noticed that Cairo-dock was no longer transparent and that there was a black background underneath it as I mouse-over the dock.

It turns out that this is due to compiz effects not being enabled in Ubuntu.

To enable compiz:
Right Click on Desktop –> Change Desktop Background –> Visual Effects –> Check the Extra Box

You should now have the transparency back again.

I recently became aware of some MySQL issues with my WL-HDD wiki which have made the site inaccessible recently. I am currently working on the problem and hope to have it fixed as soon as possible. Please bear with me as this is quite difficult to do on an incredibly temporamental internet connection on the other side of the world (China) and without my own PC and tools.
Hope this has not caused too much inconvenience. If you are desperate to use a particular tutorial you can always use the cached version via a google search.
Will keep you updated on this.

I decided to write a shell BASH script which can be run as a CRON job to generate a sitemap index file for Google Sitemaps. A sitemap index file points to all of your sitemaps for a particular domain (eg. http://www.sprayfly.com/)and Google will crawl each one of these indexed sitemaps individually. I want to regenerate the sitemap index file every day so that the <lastmod> date changes every day. This ensures that Google keeps checking your sitemaps.

The script is set up to index three different sitemaps but contains instructions on how to modify it to add more. Just download it, upload it to your server (behind the public_html directory), give it execute permissions and run it (as a CRON job if you want):

mv sitemapgen.txt sitemapgen.sh
chmod +x sitemapgen.sh
./sitemapgen.sh

Download the script