Yo Berry Where Have You Been?

I have been right here plugging away at several projects.

pyFollowBack.com My Twitter follow back service is going well.  Everyone who join’s the service loves it.  My own combined twitter account are now close to 200,000 followers, my own account @madberry has 21,509 followers and is growing strongly each month.

This blog is now a PR3 blog so I am happy about that.  Thanks everyone for linking back and helping me to grow this blog.

VPS.NET The Good The Bad The Ugly

As many of you know I have had some issues with previous providers.  I am talking hosting providers here, moving from shared hosting to a Virtual Private Server when I was still with my old host.  That platform how ever wasn’t to stable, this prompted me to look for yet another provider.  I knew I wanted to stay within the VPS realm.  There are quite a few providers that sell VPSes.  I decided to go with a young fresh company VPS.net.

Migration to Kmail 4.7.2 Failed, Now What?

When I upgraded the first laptop to 11.10 kmail’s files needed to me migrated to the new version 4.7.2 of kmail.  The migration failed, when it fails you get an error message saying that you can run “kmail-migrator –interactive” to fix this.  How ever this doesn’t work.  To get this to work follow the steps below:

1. Back-up the original kmail files/folders:
   ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail
   ~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer
   ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc
2. Remove the following files:
   ~/.kde/share/config/kmail-migratorrc
   ~/.kde/share/config/kmail2rc
3. Then run: kmail-migrator –interactive which you can do in terminal or by hitting alt->f2

That is it, the migration should now run and finish like planed.

Source: wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/Final/Kubuntu/Kmail2

HELP My Ubuntu / Kubuntu Will Not Upgrade to Oneiric / 11.10

The solution is simple, in most cases the upgrade is blocked by a package that can’t be upgraded. Or as Ubuntu / Kubuntu calls it the package is held.

I had this problem on a server of mine. In my case it was kdevelop that was held back. I removed the held package and the upgrade went through as expected.

dd With Progress Bar 2.0

many of you might remember my first article about this. It was written in 2009 and by the looks of it is somewhat outdated.

What is dd?

dd is an application to make bit for bit copies of a hard drive, or anything else you need a bit for bit copy of. One of dd’s downfalls is that it doesn’t have a progress bar. Instead you are just staring at a blank screen, waiting for dd to finish copying your drive.

New Google’s Plus One Button +1 Recommendations

Google is finally released it’s Plus One button(see link on the bottom of this post) for use on websites. Google’s plus one button can be used to recommend websites and search result publicly. Google says ” ‘+1 is shorthand for “this is pretty cool’ or ‘you should check this out.’ “.

Google yields a lot of results for different subjects and keywords, when you are looking for a result that can really be daunting. This is where +1 comes in. You friends and family can click the 1+ button on websites they like and this way recommend sites to you. In return you can do the same.