I am still trying to feel at home with Ubuntu 10.04 and one of my achievements so far is to setup a blogging client for Joomla.

At first, I had used the Synaptic Package Manager to install BloGTK, however it wouldn't launch / start from Applications >> Internet BloGTK. Searching around the web, I found a solution. A blogger, by name Balau, in his post titled BloGTK installation on Ubuntu 10.04 had experienced the same issue(BloGTK won't start after installation).

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Thank God its Friday folks, another week has ended.

Good news: I've finally migrated to Ubuntu.
tokunbo@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
tokunbo@ubuntu:~$

Todays post is courtesy of Scribefire, and heres how my laptop desktop looks like

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The following is a tutorial on how to enable clean URLs on a localhost(test server) installation of Drupal-6 with WampServer.

Drupal version: 6-19
WampServer version: 2.0
Operating System: Windows XP, SP2

I have a Wamp install, where I have several Joomla and Wordpress installations, so I might as well assume that I am on a shared server scenario. By default Drupal-6 will install on your Wamp Test Server with Clean URLs Disabled (turned off).

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With Clean URLs disabled, these are examples of

I visited a friend at the computer village in Ikeja Lagos a week ago. My laptop had been behaving very funny for about 2-days, so I took it to his shop for a checkup. When I got there, he was busy "brushing" a board of another laptop; "brushing", I mean, scrubing the board's surface with a toothbrush.

We exchanged greetings, he told me to take a seat, that he'll be ready for me in about 5-minutes. Meanwhile, he talked about the problem with the piece of hardware he was working on. He told me

With 2010 rolling to a close, I took a stock of this year's major events yesterday. As far as my online life is concerned, my unfortunate experience with Web4Africa was major. I thought I was in good hands, I mean, Naija to Naija; but unfortunately, it was a pot of soup. I have since shined my eyes - Nigerian style, and moved on and up; formerly at http://nairabytes.wordpress.com/ and now on a hosted server running Joomla!.

One day is for the thief, one day is for the owner, but how I wish I

I stumbled across the article titled: Africa needs a culture of science yesterday. While the title is so true, the content is more. And after reading the article, I thought of writing this post, at least just to bring things a little closer to home.

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The first step towards a Nigerian culture of science is to make science relevant to the average Nigerian, resident in Nigeria.

Ask the average Nigerian child what

I use blogdesk for a couple of my blogging activities. It is light in weight, not too complicated to use and can get things done quickly, so I thought why not just put up a post about installing it rather than mentioning "installation" over and over again in my future posts.

Download Blogdesk from here: http://www.blogdesk.org/en/download.htm, double-click to install:

install blogdesk1

install blogdesk2

install blogdesk3

install blogdesk4

install blogdesk5

install blogdesk6

install blogdesk7

install blogdesk8-1

install blogdesk9

Now, your Blogdesk installation is ready to roll.

The above is only a default installation of BlogDesk without any

You are welcome to the new home of NairaBytes.net This is our first post, and how best to start than with a tutorial.

There are many blogging clients out there and I personally like Blogdesk because its free, neat, light-weight and extremely simple. Blogdesk can be downloaded here. The following is how I setup mywebjournal.net so that it can be updated using Blogdesk.

1) I would assume you have an installation of blogdesk, if you don't, download and install it first.

2) Log in to your Joomla

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1) I am assuming you have WAMP Installed already, if not, first proceed to wampserver.com and download the latest version. Once installed, launch it, type http://127.0.0.1 on your browser, and make sure you see the default screen. And just in case your post#80 is already used for something else, here is a guide to changing WAMP servers default port.

2) Download Drupal - I'm using the v7.14 .zip version. Unzip into a dir at: C:\wamp\www, for example: C:\wamp\www\drupal - where drupal is the

Problem: I installed the game "supertux" from Synaptic, and played it. So after I quit/exitted, the game, and back to my desktop, the resolution was reset: desktop items had bigger texts, etc. I right-clicked on the desktop to change the resolution to the previous setting which I knew. Immediately I clicked the apply button, suddenly, the whole screen went garbled.

When I moved my mouse upwards, the lower part of the screen was black;and when I moved the mouse downwards, I see the garbled