I tend to use screenshots a lot when I do instant messaging, since they tend to help explaining things much better – and faster than raw text in many situations. It’s very rare I need to actually edit the screenshot, and in these rare occasions, It doesn’t bother me to fire up something like Pinta or Gimp – to make these small changes.
Tagged: bash, linux, programming, screenshot
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One year ago, I started coding for real again. I dumped wasting times on stupid games and so on. I like building websites, so I started by going back to the roots. HTML & CSS which I had coded when I was about 10, and it didn’t take me long before I had moved from tables to div tags and all. I learned myself to hand-code it, and not rely on software like Dreamweaver. Resulting in better, more compact and valid HTML. I had played around with PHP when I was about 11, so I decided to build some stuff in it again.
Tagged: arch, bash, experience, php, programming, python, ruby
A few days ago I was set off to create my first RubyGem. There are many resources on how to do this, but it took me a good while to gather all the information I figured I’d need for my application, so I’ve decided to gather my bit of knowledge in this article.
This article’s goal is kick start the creation of your first Gem. To make this experience more enjoyable, I’ve chosen to use a gem called Jeweler.
Note: I am by no means a “ruby-pro”. I have only created a single Gem, but I thought this article could be helpful to a lot of people, and thus I wrote it. If you have any corrections, questions, or suggestions please either email me at sirup@sirupsen.dk or comment below.
A few weeks ago, I ran into some trouble with my earphone controls for my iPhone. They suddenly stopped working, meaning I could not go to the next song, or pause directly from the controls on the wire, as I was used to doing this, it frustrated me a lot. Luckily, the fix was extremely easy.
The reason that it had stopped working, is that I carry my iPhone a lot in my pocket. And thus lint sneaks into the jack. Apparently, if there’s too much lint in it, the controls will stop working, while sound still works. So basically just remove the lint from the hole with a thin item, like a needle or a toothpick, and try to carefully get the lint out of the hole. Be very careful as you do this.
Do this at your own risk.
Until not-so-long ago, I always had a million terminals open at the same time. I have this neat keyboard-shortcut (Alt-T) which opens a new terminal. That’s nice and all, but the problem is, that I can’t be arsed to alt-tab to my old terminals, leaving a million terminals open, making alt-tabbing between other applications a pain. And I rely quite a bit on Alt-tab, I don’t have any task bar, since I’d rather just alt-tab between stuff than clicking on a task bar (which also takes up precious screen space).
Tagged: bash, linux, programming, terminal
After about 8 months with Ubuntu, I decided it was time for change. I had for a while wanted to switch to some other distribution, not really because I did not like Ubuntu, more because I wanted to learn more about Linux, and try something new. And I felt Ubuntu limited me in this matter. Furthermore, I wanted to have a system which I did not feel I had to reinstall whenever new major updates came out, I wanted a system I could improve over time. I wanted a system where I could switch desktop environment/window manager quickly, and without googling myself on how to then remove all the old, now useless, packages.
Tagged: arch, experience, linux, os, ubuntu
In both Ubuntu Jaunty and Ubuntu Karmic I’ve had trouble with the internet, actually also when I was running Fedora. It was unstable, I could go to sites, but it took a good while to look up the host (according to Chrome). It had periods where it was good, usually short ones, and periods where it sucked like hell, and was almost unusable. Download speed, and everything else than the browser, seemed to work normally though. At first, I thought I had Ipv6 troubles, but this seemed to not solve my problem. At some point, randomly, I decided to switch to OpenDNS, since I had been using it before, on other platforms, and I noticed it made those a bit faster, so it was worth the try!
And it worked. It worked really good. A lot of people might face this problem too, and I advise them to try out OpenDNS, and see if that fixes their problem. :)
Here’s a guide from OpenDNS on how to set up OpenDNS on your Linux machine!
Good luck. :)
Edit: As of Ubuntu Karmic, it seemed that the OpenDNS thing didn’t solve it properly, therefore I asked for help at SuperUser, if you still have the problem after switching DNS, I advice you to go there and read the answers to my question.
I’ve known Dropbox for very long. I found it nice that it provided the service it did, however – I like to have things automated, I didn’t want to “Drop” my files there manually all the time. That was time consuming, and I would forget to do it – and then when I’d need that file somewhere else, I would be fucked since the chance my recent “Drop” was the latest update of that file, would be low.
I wanted my Dropbox to sync everything automatically, I wanted to still have my files where they would originally be on my Desktop. On my Laptop, that didn’t matter – since I only use it for browsing the web. On my Desktop, I have all my Photos, configuration files, and programming. I wanted to have these files available everywhere, anytime.
When I for the first time wanted to try out Linux, I couldn’t at first glance find a simple guide on how to dual-boot Windows and Linux. So I decided to write a quick simple guide for you, to give an overview of how to create your own dual boot system. You should have the following stuff solved before you try this out:
When this is solved, you should be ready to get started.