Matthew East

I’ve seen a growth in the amount of people blogging about how to do particular tasks on Ubuntu. The material is excellent, but isn’t available to users who are searching the official Ubuntu documentation.
This post is to encourage those people to contribute directly to the documentation website. Doing so has huge advantages, both for end [...]

For the last 6 months or so, this website and all of my email have been hosted with Dreamhost. I have to say that I’ve been very impressed with their service – the hosting prices are low, the performance (including uptime) is good, and the customer service is prompt, efficient, friendly and helpful. Also, every [...]

Yesterday I upgraded to the testing version of Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn, to be released in April 2007. It’s already looking in really good shape.
I was bitten by a couple of bugs – the most significant one was that I found that I couldn’t login to any ssh servers from my desktop. I posted my problem [...]

I’ve recently managed to find the time to work on the theme for my website and photo gallery. The website theme is adapted from the MistyLook wordpress theme, as I wrote about earlier. I’ve now succeeded in removing the header from that theme, which took a few more tweaks than it looks.
Now I have written [...]

I’ll add my voice to Corey’s apology to the OpenSUSE community. No doubt many OpenSUSE developers felt threatened by the recent commercial dealings between Novell and Microsoft, but Mark’s apparent cheap attempt to draw on that weakness in Ubuntu’s favour has made me pretty uncomfortable.
Three things bother me. First of all, any OpenSUSE contributors who [...]

Mako, I think it’s important to be careful about whose Ipods we “liberate”. I use Rockbox on my Ipod Mini 1st Generation, and in 20 minutes of playback today it crashed 4 times. I have to say, that’s more frequently than I’m used to with it, but it does crash generally about once each time [...]

I have some webhosting with Dreamhost, and I use it for my email and this website, as well as a number of other minor things. My mail client filters spam pretty well, but when I’m using the webmail interface supplied, I always have to flick through loads of spam emails in order to find the [...]

I’ve been happily using Epiphany as my webbrowser for a long time now, I really like its simplicity and ease of use. But now, after upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy, I’m leaving it behind.
Two bugs have driven me mad: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350053 and more particularly https://launchpad.net/bugs/57923
So I’m now using Mozilla Firefox. Even though I’ve only been using it [...]

In the spirit of moving more and more of my website to userfriendly interfaces, I’ve installed gallery on my webserver, and have imported some of my photos. It’s another great piece of open source software, it’s easy to install, easy to use and looks really good. I still need to organise the photos a bit [...]

Like Keybuk, I too have been feeling the need for blogging software which allows me to post directly online.
So I’ve moved my blog from pyblosxom to Wordpress. While I was at it, I thought that I might as well move my whole website to Wordpress, because, let’s be honest, there was not much there aside [...]