Peter Cooper

Brain: A Book Cover

This is all a rather long way off and pending significant amounts of change, but I rather fancied sharing this in case it changed significantly later on. Just a book cover.

How To Enable Mouse Wheel Scrolling in Ubuntu Hardy on VMware Fusion

I was having problems installing VMware Tools on Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) under VMware Fusion but got to the bottom of it.
The next problem was trying to get the mouse scroll wheel to work. I did some Googling and most of the guides suggested I change a single line in xorg.conf (namely, set the “Protocol” of […]

How to Install VMware Tools on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 under VMware Fusion

The latest version of Ubuntu (8.04 a.k.a. Ubuntu Hardy - the world’s most popular Linux distribution) came out yesterday on April 24th. I downloaded it right away to play with on VMware Fusion, my Mac virtualization tool of choice (though I’ve now been told this works in VMware Workstation and VMware Player on the PC […]

Liberation Mono - Ultimate Coding / Source Code Font

There have been a few Twitter messages about various “coding fonts” today, so I thought I’d put up a little demo of Liberation Mono (or download the tarball directly). I’ve used Bitstream Vera Sans, Inconsolata, Consolas, and a few others, but Liberation has proven to be streets ahead of any of those for both its […]

Just Launched RubyFlow: Yet Another Ruby News Site!

I’ve just launched RubyFlow, my new community-driven Ruby news / links site. As is typical for me, I bashed it together in a day, and then went live tentatively yesterday. Just now, however, I turned the taps up to full by posting about it on Ruby Inside. Visitors are now flooding through at a good […]

Whatever Happens, Sifl and Olly Are Still The Coolest Sock Puppets Ever

That said, Loren Feldman’s attempts are pretty hilarious in their own right.

Google App Engine’s Limited Beta Disadvantages Those Who Count Most

Sometime in the small hours, Google launched Google App Engine (and more info), a Web application hosting stack/service hosted by Google. Released in the Californian evening, by British morning-time all the beta places were taken.
Cleverly, Google has made the SDK available to all, so we can still get a glimpse at it, but the first […]

How To Be Content With Your Life in Tech (or Why Your Work With Web 2.0 Is Not A Waste of Time)

A couple of weeks ago, Paul Robinson, the organizer of the excellent BarCamp Manchester, wrote “The Vision Thing“, a piece where he ponders on the banality of the Web-related industry. Andy Mitchell quickly followed up with “10 Reasons I Hate Where the Web is At” and encouraged me to post a response. This discussion somewhat […]

Safari 3.1 and Gmail: Unusable?

Not a very exciting post this, but I just did the latest Apple Software Update to Safari 3.1 and.. Gmail is now totally unusable. Whenever you press Shift or Cmd while in the main composition window, it jumps the focus to whichever previous text box you used. Sometimes if you use Cmd+A to select all […]

The Police’s Disturbing New Campaign: If You Suspect Anyone Of Anything, Dob Them In For Being A Terrorist

The Metropolitan Police (London’s police force) is actively “asking members of the public to report any suspicious behaviour” in a bid to counter terrorism. They’re doing this with a poster, sticker, and radio campaign. The radio ad is particularly creepy. Listen to the MP3 or check out this script:

FEMALE: How d’you tell the difference between […]