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iTunes Library
After installing iTunes on a fresh install of Windows, the music library was empty! Apple has a support article explaining how to get it back. I had a copy of the XML file and could use it to recreate...
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Resize Linux Partition
My Linux partition was running low on disk space. A look in the Disk Utility showed that there were THREE swap partitions. They must have been created automatically when a free chunk of space was...
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Reinstalling Mountain Lion
Upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion has proven to be a lousy experience. The computer was much slower and the spinning wheel icon kept coming up. Endless frustration. Before giving up on...
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Ubuntu Wallpaper Slideshow
When you right click on Ubuntu 12.10′s desktop and select “Change Desktop Background”, there is one special entry in the list of wallpapers with a clock logo. When that entry is selected, your desktop...
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Mass Delete Kindle Items
I have Instapaper setup to email my Kindle every week with the articles on my list. Over the year, I’ve gathered a huge number in the Kindle library. While wondering how to clear them out today, I...
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Setting up the Fuji Xerox DocuPrint M255z in Ubuntu 12
Open the Dash and type ‘print’. Click on ‘Printing’ and Add a printer. Under Network Printer, the printer should show up after a while. It probably can’t find a suitable driver, and the one on the CD...
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Network Scan with Mac OS 10.8
Having already set up network scanning with little fuss on my Windows machine, I was expecting a simple task on Mac OS, but nooooo. The shared folder method over Samba fails with a login error. Some...
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Resizing VirtualBox Partitions
My Ubuntu VM was running out of space. The good thing about VMs is that the hard disk storage file can just be expanded. I followed the steps from this blog post. First, expand the size of the disk. My...
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Upgrading a MacBook with an SSD
Having bought a new solid state drive (SSD), I needed somewhere to use it. Mountain Lion runs terribly slow on a 2009 MacBook Pro, so I decided to upgrade its hard drive to an SSD. I had originally...
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Installing Ubuntu 13.04 on a Mac
I like having a Ubuntu install handy to play around with. It’s already on my PC as a VirtualBox image, but 3D acceleration refuses to work, so I can’t upgrade it beyond 12.04 as there’s no more Unity...
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Samsung NC110 Screen Brightness in Ubuntu 13.04
After upgrading the Samsung NC110 netbook to Ubuntu 13.04, the screen brightness buttons stopped working. Googling the terms “ubuntu 13.04 samsung nc110 brightness” led to an askubuntu.com thread with...
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Apache Redirect Loop
I was trying to use mod_alias to redirect the root of my website to a subfolder. However, the Redirect directive was just giving an redirect loop. Finally found the solution at this stackoverflow...
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Moving Mozilla Thunderbird to a New Computer
Thunderbird’s email account settings are all stored in the user’s profile folder. To get the whole setup back, just copy the profile folder from the old machine to the new one. For me, my email storage...
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Backing up MS Flight Sim Rewards
This one was pretty simple. The logbook is in C:\Users\%username%\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\Logbook.BIN The granted rewards are in...
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Git HTTP Access
Setting up Git on AWS was easy. It was a lot harder to get HTTP pull and push access. WebDAV worked for pull, but pushing kept giving return code 22. Turned out that the article for that was outdated...
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Thunderbird Profile Location
Profile with mail settings and stuff is in C:\Windows.old\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\.default\ %AppData% resolves to the Roaming directory, not the Local one. This is even if the email...
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Android LED Torch App
The most popular android torch apps ask for tons of ridiculous permissions. They want network access, memory access and just about every permission available. The ONLY permission actually needed is...
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iPod Touch Not Recognized
iTunes suddenly refused to recognize my iPod Touch when I plugged it in even though it shows up on Windows 8. I was pretty sure it had worked before. Apple has a troubleshooting guide for just this...
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Dev Setup on Linux Mint
Instead of continuously plugging my nice big monitor and mechanical keyboard into my work Macbook Pro, I decided to setup a Linux VM on my home desktop so I could do the same things I can do on the...
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