Finding stories in everyday adventures
A few days ago I wrote about my Arcade fever. Since then I have been thinking about actually building an Arcade machine! I’ve ordered some components and the first one to come was this Arcade Controller I bought from Amazon for about 30 bucks. This is an awesome inexpensive controller!
This is a neat configuration to enable SMTP mail using Microsoft’s Live.com email. After successful configuration you’ll be able to send outgoing mails from your Ubuntu box using your live.com account. (Other email services will work too. I haven’t tested though). Will you ever manually send emails from Ubuntu? Perhaps not but this configuration is extremely useful in sending out system notifications to your email address. It’s also useful to send messages from websites hosted on the …
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I love Arcade games! Growing up I never owned a console but I fondly remember frequenting the neighborhood arcade shop, and spending hours and hundreds of coins over there. It was so engaging to play Cadilacs & Dinosaurs, Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter. Just reliving those memories! Those arcade shops are perhaps long gone but the legacy of those games is still there. If you have a computer you can download emulators that can run same old arcade …
That’s her tablet. Great device.
Ended up buying Toshiba Encore for my lovely Fiancée. It’s a great little device that has now become her main computer. She can easily hook up Wireless Keyboard/Mouse and external monitor through mini HDMI for a complete desktop. We ended getting rid of her old clunky computer. She loves it. The deal I got was pretty sweet. On Staples, I found a $50 coupon to get this for less than $300. Very pleased with it! …
Last week I sold A’s iPad Mini that was still less than 2 months old. The issue with iPad Mini, and iPad in general, is that it simply does not lend itself as a productivity device for someone who uses MS Office a lot. So A used to end up using her desktop that has Windows 8.1 for all the real work… using iPad only for reading eBooks. Then I decided I’ll get her a …
Just encountered this excellent post about Ryan Tomayko explaining REST to his wife. Give it a read. It’s here: http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife
Reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/ Sitename: vkrm Location: /work/vkrm 1. Install mod_wsgi (and Apache if not already). I had both already installed (I checked for mod_wsgi by running “yum install mod_wsgi”). If not, follow instructions on: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/InstallationInstructions 2. Enable “mod_wsgi” and httpd.conf su -c vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Add line: LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so 3. Create a static directory in your site. Inside the directory that contains “manage.py”, run: mkdir static 4. Copy admin static files python manage.py collectstatic mv admin …
su yum install transmission yum install transmission-daemon make sure transmission-daemon service is not running service stop transmission-daemon edit configuration file to enable rpc and disable whitelist (or allow addresses in whitelist) vi /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission/settings.json start transmission-daemon service start transmission-daemon Note: if you modify settings while transmission-daemon is running, changes won’t be saved! Therefore, first stop the service
A solution that worked for me: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/fedora-17-nvidia-guide/ For audio, find the device ID and add a PulseAudio sink using instructions from here: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/gpu-hdmi-audio-document/gpu-hdmi-audio.html#_pulseaudio_default_device