Here are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye. And the words of that fatal song Come over me like a chill: “A boy’s will is the […]
Updated: The instructions below were originally written in 2009. I just tested on the latest OSX, Mavericks, and they work just fine. The old Samsung ML-1740 printer is still working great, after many years supporting about a dozen computers running everything from Windows 7 to Kubuntu to OSX. Although the post is specific to ML-1740, […]
Git-s3 is a cool tool for deploying a git repo to a S3 bucket. The tool depends on php and a program called composer. Since I couldn’t find composer installation instructions for Windows, I decided to jot down the following: Composer Installation on Windows Install php (if it’s not installed already) I recommend using Chocolatey: […]
We spent a summer month in SE Asia in 2013, during which we visited Luang Prabang, Laos. Luang Prabang is a former French enclave situated in the remote Northern Lao mountains with a breathtaking Karst and Mekong river vista. We flew from Bangkok on Lao Airlines. Luang Prabang is as reachable from BKK (2 hours) […]
Yes, you read that right. I installed the newest version of Tomcat in just 12 seconds. Look, no hands: $ brew install tomcat that’s it. it even puts in a symlink for me so I can start the server just like: $ catalina start Well, how did I do that? If you have heard of […]
Panama, the isthmus that connects North and South America, is an area rich in both natural biodiversity and cultural heritage. A land of two oceans, dormant volcanos, fertile valleys, tropical rain forest, and the engineering wonder that is the Panama Canal. Que linda es la tierra, Panama. Below is a four-minute long video made from […]
This is a common enough scenario, isn’t it? It’s surprising that when I had to do this for my son’s new PC, I googled and couldn’t find an answer on how to do this without buying a specialty software tool. Don’t know why Apple doesn’t just publish a FAQ topic on it. As I discovered, […]
Linux has long been able to mount both Windows NTFS and FAT file systems, but the reverse is not true in Windows. To view a ext2 or ext3 file system, I tried a tool called DiskInternals Linux Reader, downloaded from the company’s web site: http://www.diskinternals.com/download.shtml. I installed it on my dual boot Windows XP/Kubuntu server. […]
So today I decided to set up a SAMBA server on my Kubuntu because this is where my music collection is stored. My son uses the music library to sync up his ipod, and his computer is often running Windows XP. To install SAMBA, I used the Kubuntu Debian package manager. Very straight forward. Afterwards, […]