I ride the train almost everyday for an hour each way and work using my laptop. It was my hope that the wi-fi on the train worked sufficiently that I’d have a constant Internet connection but this is not the … Continue reading
Eric
Trying the PHP framework Laravel I found that the framework would not start without Mcrypt installed, the encryption library. After some research I realized that I’d have to build the LIB and this page gave very good instructions. http://www.leonardaustin.com/technical/how-to-install-mcrypt-on-mac-osx10-7-and-osx10-6 A … Continue reading
Mountain Lion (OS 10.8) is at this time the newest version of the Mac OS and the changes to the Apache web server that ships with it lead many bloggers to misinform readers about controlling the server. Let’s set the … Continue reading
Last night all was well with my Ubuntu laptop and I shut it down as normal. This morning it hung on boot at the splash screen with 5 dots lit up. Reading posts here and there suggested I should just … Continue reading
I am busy like most people throughout the day and switch tasks often. Taking good notes during my work is tedious and there are times when I forget or cannot and I lose knowledge this way. I lose the steps leading to … Continue reading
I get a new feature with my digital camera by updating it’s firmware, who knew you could update the camera? It never dawned on me that me DLSR camera from Samsung would or even could be updated like my fancy … Continue reading
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
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