On Linux, all manner of automation is available. I run my own minecraft server process on my virtual private server, and have been occasionally faced with random crashes. (Truth be told, the machine needs just a tad more RAM, so perhaps the process is killed by the OS for this reason.)
To keep my Minecraft [...]
Quite a lot has been said about SOPA and its trans-political meanings for people everywhere, but to further drive the points home, the Fight For the Future group is encouraging websites everywhere to go on an Internet strike. This means bringing down your own web site (hopefully with a helpful [...]
Now here’s a difficult-to-Google-search niche concern: how do I change the sidebar icons for files (or folders) in the Textmate sidebar?
Most of my attempts to find an existing article on the subject were decided failures, because the query was just too wordy, and all I’d find was Textmate replacement icons and file type icons [...]
For any that have tried to set up Boot Camp without your unique computer’s OS X installation disk (which holds the boot camp drivers) will know that using other Mac disks simply won’t work. Even if you crack open the folders to run the individual driver installers will eventually encounter weird problems or arbitrary failures.
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After a rather painful upgrade from iOS 5 beta to iOS 5 release (involving several DFU mode attempts and iTunes error messages during upgrade), my apps somehow got stuck in limbo as they attempted to begin restoring.
All the icons appeared with their progress bars, subtitled “Wating…”, and after a while, I got the popup [...]
One of the most frustrating types of problem is one where you can’t control something that is obviously going wrong.
For months, off and on, I’ve been casually trying to start Python3.2 virtualenvs for projects, because I care very much about progressing the state of Python 3.x’s ecosystem. But every time I tried to create [...]
To use Windows for the type of work I do, I need command line tools like ssh, and the standard Unix core utilities. The standard Cygwin launcher is a batch file, so using Ctrl-D in certain kinds of contexts (Console2, for example) causes a message that asks if you want to log [...]
