When Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala came out, I did an upgrade on one of my machines instead of doing a fresh install. I decided it was time to do a fresh install after Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx came out.
I backed up all of my important files and some configuration files to a second drive, /dev/sdb. My previous Ubuntu install was installed on /dev/sda1 and I used the sdb drive for photos and videos.
When the installation got to the point of configuring partitions, I was a little bummed to see that my first drive, /dev/sda, wasn’t included in the list of drives and partitions. This machine needed a fresh install badly, so I posted on the Ubuntu Forums to see if anyone knew of a fix.
After a few days of no replies, gregmo posted and offered a solution. He suggested running the command below while running the live cd, prior to installing. This removes dmraid from the system running off the live cd.
sudo apt-get remove dmraid
After removing the dmraid package, I fired up the installer and was able to install to /dev/sda1 just fine. For some reason, removing the dmraid package allowed the partition manager to see /dev/sda.
Blackbird Pie is a tool provided by the Twitter Media team that allows you to embed tweets directly in your blog posts or any website really. Here’s a good description of Blackbird Pie from a post at media.twitter.com:
The origin of the script is both self- and user-centered. Mostly, we just think it’s a pain to take screen grabs of tweets. But of course we also think it’s a much better user experience to have @-mentions, hashtags and the account itself all linked and clickable.
The tweet above is an example of what Blackbird Pie does, definately much better than having to take a screenshot and post the tweet that way. All you have to do is provide the URL to the tweet and Blackbird Pie will spit out code for you to post in your blog or website. Now you can actually link directly to the tweet and the tweets author, and have the tweets content visible to search engines, something not possible with screenshots alone. Hashtags and @ mentions are also linked.
It’s a neat tool, sure to be of use to folks who like to embed tweets in their site. Blackbird Pie is a way better option for embedding tweets compared to simply taking screenshots of tweets.
UPDATE 11/22/2010: A WordPress plugin for Blackbird Pie has been released. Check it out if you were using Blackbird Pie manually before. I’ve used the Blackbird Pie plugin to embed the tweet below:
Check out the I-35 Spirits website, it's coming along nicely but not quite finished yet. http://goo.gl/KcD9x
