sudo apt-get install myspell-en-gb This should make it work, this will work for any debian variant.

To get HAL to set your keyboard mapping on boot create the below file: vi /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi Enter this into it: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″?> <deviceinfo version=”0.2″>   <device>     <match key=”info.capabilities” contains=”input.keyboard”>       <merge key=”input.x11_options.XkbLayout” type=”string”>gb</merge>     </match>   </device> </deviceinfo> For this to work you will need to have HAL enabled in rc.conf. echo ‘hald_enable=”YES”‘ [...]

Surprise, a new shiny theme has appeared!

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I was going to change the appearance of the site. But after looking around I got bored and just updated the CSS to make pre tags nicer, see. Hi Not much better mind you, but at least it’s something. Oh and I created a new category, called Windows for all them windows do-hickys.

I’ve just completed updating my VPS. (Thanks AllSimple) We are now running 512MB RAM, previous 256MB, and more hard drive space. We are now running lighttpd instead of apache, in an attempt to save memory. Though this may change once I get around to researching it some more. I also have a load of draft [...]

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I have finally fixed the error after moving wordpress out of a “wordpress” folder and into my root directory. Because all the posts that I had made with images went like this “nationpigeon.com/wordpress/bla.png” and after I moved all the files the images could not be found. So a simple hack that I did was create [...]

Prototyping is a good way to find out if what you have is what the users are looking for. It’s useful to get user feedback on the project and useful for evaluation Prototyping can be done throughout the project and at any time. There are many different types of prototyping, which range from pieces of [...]

I forgot to mention that I have created a mobile version of this site at http://mobile.nationpigeon.com. If you are viewing this site on a screen resolution below 640×480 then you will be re-directed to the mobile version. I hope to implement an option where by you will be able to choose to use the mobile [...]