Rooting a new tablet can be scarry (what if I brick it?), so finding a set of instructions that worked the first time is key and that’s what I present for the Asus Transformer TF101. I’ve put off getting a tablet … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2011
Upgrading Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 had a problem, the icons of some apps were gone. Here’s how I fixed it – easily. Ubuntu 11.04 offered an upgrade to 11.10 which was easy enough to make just click the button and … Continue reading
So you log into Skype every time your PC starts and that darn HOME window appears too. All you want is your contacts list but there’s that window. I was wondering how to stop it and the options Skype makes … Continue reading
Gedit is a simple wysiwyg test editor and people want it to work like OS X’s TextMate too, here how. So I’ve been using VIM for a while since it’s a little easier than VI and this is not saying too much … Continue reading
Continuing to learn Capistrano, I have to make my development environment match. My dev environment is Ubuntu 10.0.4 and a number of Gems are more recent versions than those on Site5, I have to get my dev environment to match the … Continue reading
I am always so surprised when I find that other people enjoy or love the same things I do and notebooks are my surprise for the day. I currently write in a Gibson Markings notebook that I bought from Staples … Continue reading
I’ve had WCF services running on in-house computers exposed to the Internet for some time. Moving a web service from an in-house fully accessible computer environment to a web hosting environment like GoDaddy, HostGator and others that limit your access … Continue reading
I have several services that I’ve been using for years both of my own creation and some ope-source and I needed to move them onto a hosting provider. It just didn’t make sense to continue to host these things myself … Continue reading
I’ve always wondered why mobile phone reception varies as you walk around. Stand in one place and you’ve got 5 bars, move to the right a step or two and you don’t. Reading Wireless Communications by Molisch provided the answer … Continue reading