I received a .dmg file from a Mac user today claiming it was a video file. It took a long while to figure out how to examine this file, so here are my notes so I don’t ever have to do it again. Step 1: Uncompress the file My first step was to use 7z… Read More »
I’ve been trying to solve this problem for a long while and never figured it out — even after reading lots of posts with the correct solution. Now that I’ve finally figured it out, I’m writing it down here so I can find the solution later. (And maybe it’ll help someone else…) Using audio on… Read More »
Note: This article applies to GNOME 3.10 in Fedora 20. You no longer need these steps in GNOME 3.14 in Fedora 21. I’m setting up an Alfresco server and I need to test some of the tweaks and configuration I’m working with. Alfresco is big; lots of components including Java, an application server, usually a… Read More »
Just a quick tip for people who use multiple user accounts at once on Fedora. (I test software using brand new user accounts sometimes, for example. I’ve heard of others may use multiple user accounts to try and sandbox applications they expect to misbehave. [I recommend a VM for this, FWIW.]) If you’ve ever switched… Read More »
I’ve been a Bank of America customer for 12 years or so, ever since I moved to Boston from New York. I picked them because they were everywhere, and I didn’t ever want to switch banks again. When the big “Bank Transfer Day” came, I decided to switch banks too. I was annoyed about the… Read More »
Sometimes it’s easy to see why almost no one uses Linux on the Desktop. I just got a Spotify invite, so I decided to try it out. Step one is registering at Spotify.com. No trouble! But then… how do I use it? Ah! The download link! Sweet! A Linux preview! It’s available for Ubuntu and… Read More »
I’ve been trying to rescue my CD collection for some time. While I like to listen to music, I never listen to my CDs except for the few I bring with me in the car. It’s just too annoying to shuffle music 10 songs at a time and keep track of the disks and their… Read More »
A few years ago, I stopped running my email and web server out of my house. I was tired of paying for the electricity and the static IP address. I wanted to switch to FiOS which doesn’t allow me to host off of port 80. I was sick of keeping my desktop computer ON ALL… Read More »
I was working on a project that used a lot acronyms and terminology that I didn’t know yet. It was making me crazy, so eventually I created a Terminology extension for media wiki. You can see a demo of it on CyanogenMod’s Wiki. And see the Terminology source page. (and contribute to it!) Anyway, hope… Read More »
Twisties, otherwise known as “Disclosure Triangles†are little triangles (â–º) that twist (â–¼) when clicked to hide or show content on the page. I’m working on a web page that has a lot of content, but didn’t want it all displayed all the time. I searched around for a little while trying to find a… Read More »