What Adobe Creative Cloud pricing means to me.

I just got off the phone with an Adobe rep to get the straight deal on the pricing changes proposed with the Creative Cloud changes. Currently, I have a site license of Creative Suite 5 Designer for our school. We purchased a couple of years ago and got educational pricing for the dual Mac and [...]

Installing Ubuntu Server 13.04 on an HP DL320e Gen8

I just had the experience of installing Ubuntu Server 13.04 on a new HP DL320e Gen8 server and it was not as easy as it should have been. It’s kind of pain because Ubuntu is not one of the officially supported operating systems from HP on this server model. So, their “Intelligent Provisioning” is worthless [...]

Perl 5.16 on Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)

Update 2013-03-29: Caused some chaos with debconf. I have modified the sets a little to fix it.

If you need to move off Perl 5.14 which is the current distro packaged version on Ubuntu 13.04 daily, snag source and compile it. It works. But, I would reccomend leaving the 5.14 in the dkpg system due to [...]

Getting old Excel Lists functionality in “Excel Tables”

I used to use Excel Lists all the time for documents that needed we wanted users to do data entry in a structured way. Excel Lists were great because you could quickly and easily edit columns and push the validation schemes, etc. down the rows. That was then. Now, Excel has removed any mentions of [...]

Editing and Fixing WordPress Liveblog Entries

UPDATE: January 24, 2013: Liveblog 1.3 does editing now! More here >> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/liveblog/
 
If you are using the WordPress Liveblog plugin to liveblog events, you can screw up an entry. I did. But, because the entries are time-stamped, you really only have the option to delete them or leave them through the WordPress browser GUI. This is [...]