My favourite World of Warcraft Addons

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I personally use the following addons for more than 2 years now, therefore I can recommend them.

  • Advanced Trade Skill Window (ATSW)
  • Atlas
  • Atlasloot Enhanced
  • Auctioneer
  • Deadly Boss Mods
  • Decursive
  • Gatherer
  • QuestHelper
  • Recount
  • Titan Panel
  • Wow Instant Messenger (WIM)
  • X-Perl Unit Frames

Solaris 11 Express SAMP installation guide

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To install Apache 2.2, PHP 5, MySQL 5.1, Perl 5.8 on Solaris 11 Express just follow these steps:

  1. Install Solaris 11 Express (I won`t provide help with this step)
  2. Start Solaris and login as the main user
  3. Start the terminal, if not done already
  4. su

    (and change the password)
  5. pkg refresh
  6. pkg install amp
  7. svcadm enable apache22
  8. svcadm enable mysql
  9. cd /var/apache2/2.2/htdocs
  10. rm index.html

All PHP files etc can be placed in /var/apache2/2.2/htdocs

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

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Next month I will be reviewing the Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook by Packt Publishing.
This book has the same structure as the Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook I reviewed earlier this year.

The book contains over 60 practical recipes covering a range of site management and core Joomla! activities and guides to use several handy Joomla! plugins.

This book is written for beginning and intermediate users of Joomla! 1.5 and 1.6 with or without knowledge about webdesign.

What you will learn from this book :

  • Install Joomla! on two different but common types of hosting; setting up the database on two common hosting platforms, cPanel® and GoDaddy.com®
  • Know your way around phpMyAdmin for some of the tasks you may face.
  • Install your template, assign it as the default and make changes to it.
  • Setup the basics of a Section and a Category to hold and manage content with.
  • Manage links, users and media
  • Install, assign, and create Modules and Components
  • Install and use K2
  • Install, configure and use of some select extensions.
  • Learn how to do the easy and medium difficulty tasks, designed to eliminate  a few of the issues you may experience.
  • Look at recipes that cover the portions of Joomla! 1.6 that are brand new

More information about the book can be found at Packt Publishings product page.

You can expect the review on my site within a month from today.

I have found my WordPress Theme Framework

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After playing with some WordPress theme frameworks I have found my match.

I tested the following frameworks:

But none of these compared to the easiness and beauty (as developer) as Studiopress` Genesis Framework.

I have developed a new theme in less than an hour, whereas it would be impossible with K2 and took me several hours in Thematic.
I will show you the theme soon, I hope.

Linux Kernel 2.6.36 installation guide for Ubuntu Linux

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This short walkthrough describes how to get the latest linux kernel working under Ubuntu Linux without having to compile it yourself.

This tutorial should work with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux (10.04 and 10.10 ) and most distributions based on these versions of Ubuntu Linux like Mint.

The included kernel files have been compiled using the generic ubuntu configuration.
Note: nVIDIA ForceWare drivers are automatically installed using DKMS, if you have these installed and up-to-date.

Installation Guide

  1. Download Download your kernel headers package; linux-headers-2.6.36-020636_2.6.36-020636.201010210905_all.deb

    I386: linux-headers-2.6.36-020636-generic_2.6.36-020636.201010210905_i386.deb

    AMD64: linux-headers-2.6.36-020636-generic_2.6.36-020636.201010210905_amd64.deb
  2. Download your kernel compile;

    I386: linux-image-2.6.36-020636-generic_2.6.36-020636.201010210905_i386.deb

    AMD64: linux-image-2.6.36-020636-generic_2.6.36-020636.201010210905_amd64.deb
  3. Install the files in the same order (else it won`t work!)
  4. In the terminal run:

    sudo update-grub
  5. Reboot and select the kernel from the bootloader menu

    If it`s not there check all steps (and ofcourse errors)