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Year: 2010

Apache2 mixed ssl/non-ssl name-based virtual hosting

Ran into some problems earlier today in trying to bring up a SSL enabled virtual site along side my existing (non-ssl) name-based virtual sites. I needed the SSL enabled vsite for a installation of phpmysqladmin. I ran into a lot of documentations describing how to get the IP based setup working, but almost no info…

December 8, 2010
Tubeify…..It’s Time Machine for your cloud music

More and more people use youtube now-a-days to get access to instant music. Be it at parties, in the office or on mobile platforms. The hard part is the constant searches you have to do. You want to listen to some 80’s tunes. How do you go about creating a playlist……do you even remember the…

December 5, 2010
Screen resolution fix for Ubuntu 10.10 running in Parallels Desktop 6.0

If you try to install Ubuntu 10.10 under parallels desktop 6.0 on OSX — atleast as of the writing of this article — you’ll soon discover that although your entire installation is done in a high (eg: 1920×1080) resolution, as soon as the install is done and you reboot, your VM is stuck at 1024×768.…

November 1, 2010
Fixing Plymouth (boot splash) in Ubuntu 10.10 aka. Maverick Meerkat

If you’ve recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 and have installed Nvidia and/or ATI drivers — or installed ubuntu under emulation — you’ll end up with a (butt) ugly splash screen. In my case under parallel 6.0 I ended up with a text boot screen that just read “Ubuntu 10.10″……Ughhh. Here is a quick tutorial on how…

November 1, 2010
I wonder what it will look like in 2020….

October 19, 2010
Terminal Tip: Finding information about a mp3 audio file…

Here is a quick tip for you OSX command line fans. If you want to find metadata information about a mp3 file use the “afinfo” command. Very quick and scripting friendly. Here is a example: $ afinfo 08_\ Lily\ Allen\ -\ Fk\ You.mp3 File: 08_ Lily Allen – Fk You.mp3 File type ID: MPG3 Data…

October 19, 2010
How to install Office 2010 on Windows XP x64-bit edition

Let me guess…..you tried it and it failed. Well, there is a way (probably not sanctioned by MS) to get this done. I’ve installed it on two separate machines and verified that it works. First you need to download MSXML 6 from Microsofts website. Just go to microsoft.com and search for MSXML. There should be…

September 23, 2010
Quotes and such in WordPress…..

As nice as wordpress is, it can sometimes turn your life into a bit of a nightmare. Case in point the title in my previous post. I was trying to tell WP that I want straight double quotes (ie: “) and it kept insisting on beautifying it and turning it into curly double quotes. These…

September 20, 2010
say -v "Bad News" fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk

TSIA

September 20, 2010
Map any network drive to Mac OS X that auto mounts after system reboot

Here is a quick recipe for making a network drive auto mount on your OSX machine. This works with pretty much any protocol supported by Finders “Connect to Server” option. Here is how you do it: From the Finder, hit Command+K or select Connect to Server from the Go menu. You’ll see the following window,…

September 20, 2010

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