Archive for April, 2009

Basic Emacs Tutorial

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

In my last post, I wrote about how I had to write a guide to using a piece of software for a class. Well, I had to do another one, but this time it was individually rather than in a group. So, I wrote a guide on how to do some basic tasks in emacs. [...]

Fedora 10, Subversion, and WebSVN

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Justin and I recently wrote a guide to installing Subversion for a class that we’re taking. It’s a pretty simple process and we’ve tested it twice now, but if you try it and something it unclear/doesn’t work, let us know.

Firefox, Ubuntu, and Spell Checking

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

I just noticed that my version of Firefox 3.0.8 running in Ubuntu 8.10 had en_AU as it’s default spell checking dictionary. Is this true for anyone else? The only reason I noticed this was because Firefox was marking words such as “organization” and “enrollment” as being spelled wrong. If anyone wants to look at their [...]

Dot Name

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

I had some trouble with my domain recently where it was pointing to a parked page. This was because my hosting provider didn’t update my registration in time, but this has all been resolved now. This dilemma got me thinking and I decided to purchase a dot name domain. ryan.lewis.name now points here!