I installed VirtualBox on my Windows 7 machine at work to do Linux testing. The installation of Ubuntu 14.04 went well and in no time I had a working install. But then I noticed the resolution: 640×480. Argh!
Install Samba on Ubuntu 14.04
February 7th, 2015My neighbours and I watch movies every Thursday night. It’s our sofa night. So I decided to create a file server so that when we can’t make it, we can at least have the movie available for viewing at our leisure.
Apache File Upload and Max Upload Size
January 31st, 2015If you’re like me and you always try to do things yourself, then you have probably tried hosting a website yourself: whether it was for your personal use or otherwise.
Happy Belated New Year!!!
January 27th, 2015Happy new year everybody!! I apologise for the late greetings but as “they” say, better late than never 🙂 Read the rest »
2014 Windward Islands Tournament
May 9th, 2014The 2014 Windward Islands Tournament was held in Dominica on April 30, May 2 & 4, 2014. The teams participating were Dominica (the host country), Grenada (defending champs), St. Lucia and St. Vincent.
Caribnog 7
May 5th, 2014
Last week (Monday to Friday) I attended the bi-annual Caribnog meeting. This meeting was the seventh meeting of Caribnog (Caribnog 7) and it was quite informative.
Repairs Are All But Done!
April 8th, 2014So, I went to Tossie’s Auto Body shop yesterday to have a look at the repairs. And boy, was I surprised!
Fighting Spam on Joomla! Powered Websites
March 19th, 2014
I use Joomla! at work to develop sites for the Government of Dominica and I have been getting quite a lot of spam from the contact form and comments. Reducing the spam is a challenge because I cannot use a Captcha due to our standards.
Repairs are Progressing
February 26th, 201457 days after my New Year’s Day Accident, repairs to the car are progressing smoothly but slowly. I was told that it would be three weeks to complete all the work on the car but in reality, that’s not the case.
2014 Mahaut Carnival Opening Parade
February 24th, 2014This past Saturday (February 22, 2014) was the opening parade for the 2014 Mahaut Carnival. The turn out was not the best, to be honest, but the parade was still enjoyable.
Women’s Football at Bath Estate
January 19th, 2014So today I decided to go look at women’s football at Bath Estate and I must say, I haven’t seen such one sided games in a LONG time.
Saturday Ballers
December 13th, 2013So, every Saturday a group of us gather to play a friendly yet competitive game of football (soccer for you Americans) and this year my team is on the losing end…again.