Category Archives: Computing

How to show hidden files in Mac OS Finder

Posted on November 29, 2009 by erik

Need to see hidden files in OS X Snow Leopard Finder? Use cmd-shift-. Continue reading →

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Windows Print Spooler Hangups

Posted on December 5, 2007 by erik

I know, it seems obvious… but when you’ve got one of those stupid print jobs stuck in the queue and they won’t go away… using the services manager to restart the print spooler apparently a pretty effective remedy in many … Continue reading →

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Oracle VM Manager on CentOS 5 i386 Install Notes

Posted on November 17, 2007 by erik

So everybody knows by now that Oracle just jumped into the virtualization fray with their new Oracle VM product. If you’ve been under a rock, go to the oracle website to check it out. Given that I’m cheap and currently … Continue reading →

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LGA 775 Replacement Mounting Clips

Posted on July 28, 2007 by erik

I’ve been trying to find these blasted mounting clips for the stock intel socket lga775 heatsink/fan units for the better part of the last month. If you’ve ever tried to install them, or even worse, remove the heatsink after a … Continue reading →

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Facebook

Posted on July 18, 2007 by erik

So I’ve been following the Scobleizer every now and again via Google Reader, and he just won’t stop going off about facebook. I signed up a while back, but without a community and not finding anybody on there I knew, … Continue reading →

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Authenticating CentOS 4 against Win2k3 R2 Active Directory

Posted on July 18, 2007 by erik

Prescript: I wrote this over a month ago and still haven’t found an authoring plugin I like so it still looks terrible. See my next post and give me ideas or just call me lazy, thanks! Based on http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/01/15/linux-ad-integration-version-4/ First, … Continue reading →

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Putty (windows ssh terminal) setup

Posted on June 5, 2007 by erik

I always forget the settings that get solid results connecting to my CentOS/Fedora systems under Putty. Here’s the whole nine yards, maybe someone else will be able to use ‘em as well. Get putty from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html. I use the installer. … Continue reading →

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ASUS A7N8x Deluxe Linux (in)compatibility

Posted on February 25, 2007 by erik

Continuing in the vein of ‘stupid hardware problems’, this week I discovered that the ASUS A7N8x deluxe motherboard I’ve been trying to nurse along as the backbone of my MythTV PVR basically doesn’t play nicely with linux, period. Don’t ask … Continue reading →

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RAZR v3c disables ring style selection when closed

Posted on December 11, 2006 by erik

Edit January 7: See bottom of post. Every person I’ve talked to with a RAZR seems to have this problem, and nobody has known how to fix it. You know what I’m talking about! You put the phone on ‘vibrate’ … Continue reading →

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WatchGuard Core x750e first impressions

Posted on December 8, 2006 by erik

So I finally got my WatchGuard eval unit. 2 months after I would have liked, but c’est la vie, I guess they had some employee turnover over there and my box got lost in the shuffle. Upon opening the box, … Continue reading →

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