1. Check, Check… is this thing on?

    June 9, 2009 by Josh Blount

    It’s alarming to me that the only people who are aware that this blog is actively dead are spam comment bots.

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  2. PDANet, Ubuntu Jaunt and the iPhone 3G

    March 29, 2009 by Josh Blount

    This is primarily a reminder to myself, but apparently Network Manager does support ad-hoc mode.

    This tutorial documents it, but to get a ad-hoc network the steps look like this:

    1. Click ‘create new wireless network
    2. Type in some info, click ok
    3. Click ‘edit connections’
    4. Edit the connection you setup before and change ipv4 settings to use ‘dhcp (automatically)
    5. Select your ad-hoc network that is now in the list along with your existing wireless network.

    This is super awesome. (This was posted from my iPhone’s 3G Connection, using my laptop)

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  3. Know your creatives: Bill Evans

    March 26, 2009 by Josh Blount

    Ryan Price has tagged (guilt-ed?) me into spreading some link love locally. I had plans on releasing this with a yet unpublished new version of my blog, but I haven’t imported the old posts yet, so this broken Wordpress install will have to work for now to sing the praises of Bill Evans.
    BOO!

    Bill is a bad ass. He’s a developer and co-founder of squareFACTOR (local super-really-great design and development firm, and I do mean firm). He uses Python and Django to make it happen on the internet, hates php, runs Ubuntu, teaches his children to love Flight of the Conchords, and documents hilarious conversations on THIRTEENPIXELS.

    I met Bill when I was looking for work, and although we didn’t end up working together, I was glad to have met him because he’s a good guy. He’s offered his office to me on two occasions (once for OPUG, once for a development sprint with my team from Canonical) and he’s put up with my love for the movie The Happening since we first met.

    There you go folks, shows over here. Bill needs to write about some other ‘creative’ in the local area, he has 36 hours to do it.

    Of course if he doesn’t he’d still be a pretty great guy, here are the links to the posts so far:

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  4. My foot

    March 14, 2009 by Josh Blount

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  5. Edited for clarity (7 Things You May (Or May Not) Know About Me)

    March 7, 2009 by Josh Blount

    Ok, first post since September so I’ll make this short. (this is also a bit of a reply to Stuart, although quite late)

    1. Thankfully, Canonical is still relatively happy to have me employed. How I got to work with the brilliant people I do is beyond me, but I’m quite excited about it.
    2. I find it very difficult to call myself a christian, although I’m making an attempt at living in a similar way to Jesus.
    3. I don’t ever want to think about how much money my wife and I are losing on our house at the moment.
    4. I simultaneously hate and love our dog, “Baxter Go Blount“
    5. I have a mole on the bottom of my right foot. Good to identify me in case of some head injury.
    6. Since starting to work from home this past year, I’ve learned that using emoticons keep turf wars and hurt feelings to a minimum.
    7. I sometimes wonder if I’m the only one that loves sappy folk music and T-Pain equally. Not that it’s a problem, I’m just curious.

    As a side note, sorry about the theme, I felt like it was about time to start writing again, and I simply have no time to go about fixing up this blog at the moment.

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  6. Psychology and The Creative

    September 17, 2008 by Josh Blount

    I have a feeling that the reason I’m enjoying this article on the creative mind from a psychologists perspective is because it is a bit ego stroking (if you consider yourself a creative, which I generally do.) (via kottke, via 43Folders)

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  7. Fixing flash audio in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

    September 12, 2008 by Josh Blount

    This will (hopefully) be a mute point when Intrepid Ibez is out, but you can easily fix audio problems that apparently result from issues between Adobe’s Flash player and and PulseAudio sound server. Install a single package that should already be in your sources.list and you’ll be good to go:
    sudo apt-get install libflashsupport
    You can tell me thank you later.

    Edit:One of the things that I didn’t expect would happen is that this has fixed the long standing issue of Hulu not working (for me).

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  8. The fat guy running down the street in the middle of the night

    September 8, 2008 by Josh Blount

    Yeah, that guy would be me.

    So, as is my typical modus operandi, I’ve started running again on a whim very late at night. I had a few problems, and I’d love some feedback from the folks I know that are much better at this sort of thing than I am. Please, if you have a moment, fill out this form on WuFoo so that I can gather some of the response and sort out some solutions.

    Hooray sweat! Hooray health!

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  9. Getting the Apple wireless bluetooth keyboard working with Ubuntu Hardy Heron

    September 3, 2008 by Josh Blount

    I just lost about 3 hours of my life. Hardy apparently has great, but poorly integrated bluetooth support. Here are the steps I had to take to get my bluetooth keyboard working:

    1. Right click on the bluetooth icon in the notification area of the default Hardy desktop and select preferences
    2. In the prefenes window select “Visable and connectable for other devices” from the list
    3. Click the discoverable button on your keyboard, when it shows up in the prefernces window you have open, click on it and click the trust button. You can now close the preferences window.
    4. Right click on the bluetooth icon a second time, this time selecting browse device.
    5. Select your keyboard from the list, and click connect.
    6. When the error pops up about not being able to connect, notice the mac address (perhaps something like 00:1e:52:fc:87:ea) and leave the error message open so you can type it into the terminal.
    7. From the terminal run the following command without the quotes: sudo hidd --connect "the mac address from the error message"
    8. Be really happy that you found these instructions instead of pouring through dozens of forum posts with people complaining about their keyboard not working

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  10. Browser Wars 2: Electric Boogaloo

    by Josh Blount

    So yesterday Google showed us how they would do a web browser. As I’ve said previously, I’m a Safari guy, so with that in mind: here are a few thoughts on Google Chrome.

    Awesomeness: 

    Lameness:

    • The fisher price interface that is on display is really painful. Here’s hoping that when the OS X and Linux versions come out they will be substantially different. 
    • Did I mention that Google launched Chrome with just Windows support? Seems a bit unnatural for Google considering most Googlers probably run a variety of Linux or OS X. 
    • There are some really terrible rendering issues due to what looks like Chrome’s use of a adjusted version of Webkit. 
    Overall, I’m feeling very positive about this beta release of Google’s new web browser. There are a few things that I’d love to see get fixed, but enough positive that easily makes up for the bat bits. Congratulations to the Android team, and feel free to report bugs via Chrome’s Launchpad page! ;)

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