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random PC tips: June 2011
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Thursday, June 30, 2011. How to find out your Linux distribution and version number. Write this command to the terminal:. It will bring out the distro and the version. Octave io package troubles fixed. I was trying to use the textread function in Octave 3.2, under Ubuntu 10.04. All I got was this error message:. Error: `textread' undefined near line 5 column 9. I learnt from the internet that I need the io package from Octave-forge. Pkg install io-1.0.14.tar.gz. Still an error message. Warning: file /io-...
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random PC tips: December 2012
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Friday, December 28, 2012. Where does uTorrent keep its .torrent files? NOTE: uTorrent installs a bitcoin miner and probably logs all torrents you download with it. Don't use uTorrent! I recommend using Tixati. For all your torrent needs. If you deleted uTorrent and want to remove all of its files, you might want to know where it stores them. On Windows 7, uTorrent stores .torrent files by default in:. C: Users %USERNAME% AppData Roaming uTorrent. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). DIY Laser CNC Project.
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random PC tips: September 2012
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Saturday, September 8, 2012. Upgrading Ubuntu Server 11.10 to 12.04 LTS. Here's how I updated my server's Ubuntu from 11.10 to 12.04 LTS. I don't have a desktop installed on the server, so I had to run the upgrade from terminal. I have a forum running, a lot of MySQL databases and Apache 2 on the server. I'm also running sensord and other stuff like that. So some of the software will probably need some configuration. I logged on my server as root and ran. Which will install a new kernel version. Then cam...
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random PC tips: January 2011
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Monday, January 10, 2011. Draw squares and circles with GIMP. Today I realized I don't have a clue how to draw circles or squares in GIMP. I knew how to do it in MS Paint, but Paint draws everything 1 pixel wide. I wanted thicker squares. I opened GIMP but didn't have a clue how to draw squares. I could select squares but that was all. So, I found this very nice video that shows how to do it. Here it is! Have fun drawing circles. Monday, January 3, 2011. Minecraft recv failed error. fixed! Also, some peo...
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Embedded newbie: February 2011
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Monday, February 7, 2011. Review of Arduino DAC solutions. I was in a need of an analog output output for my Arduino, and I found quite many different digital-to-analog converter (DAC) solutions by googling around. So finally I decided to gather them on one page as a reminder for myself and a guide for others. So here it comes! MAKE: Online's DAC shield. Make: Online - Proto-DAC shield for Arduino. A Direct digital synthesizer build using a R-2R ladder DAC. R-2R ladder DAC with output buffer. This design...
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random PC tips: Minecraft recv failed error... fixed!
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Monday, January 3, 2011. Minecraft recv failed error. fixed! OK A lot of people seem to have this problem. Finally, I managed to fix it for myself! This problem is quite common with Minecraft Survival Multiplayer. Basically, the problem goes like this: you connect to a server, maybe manage to do something for some minutes, and then you eventually hang up with the message:. Internal exception: java.netSocketException: Software caused connection abort: recv failed. 3) Go to Advanced and change property "Tr...
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random PC tips: Android browser size comparison
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Thursday, June 12, 2014. Android browser size comparison. This post isn't actually a PC tip but an Android one. I wanted some kind of list of the installation file sizes of the most popular Andriod browsers. I couldn't find one, so I made it myself. This is based on the installation size info on Google Play on 12. June 2014. From smallest to biggest, here it the list of Android 2.3.6. browsers compared by file size:. 2 Opera Mini 1.03MB. 3 Ninesky Browser 1.29MB. 4 Next Browser 4.02MB.
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random PC tips: Running Black Dahlia on Windows XP/Vista
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Running Black Dahlia on Windows XP/Vista. OK, I just played through the old PC adventure game Black Dahlia. It's a good game, well worth a look if you like adventure games. It's a full-motion video (FMV) based game spanning 8 CDs, with some OK acting and an entertaining (but confusing and sometimes illogical) plot. The game was made in 1998 for Windows 95/98 and it's not that trivial to get it to work flawlessly. Here's how to do it. For Windows XP users. 1) Install the game.
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Embedded newbie: Overview of the LPCXpresso development platform
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Monday, March 14, 2011. Overview of the LPCXpresso development platform. I got hold of the LPCXpresso development platform. This is a nice, thin 32-bit development platform with a built-in USB programmer for only 20€. The LPCXpresso. On the right is the target board, on the left is the LPC-Link USB JTAG debugger. The separated LPC-Link debugger. Picture: NXP. This article focuses on the LPC1114 version. The LPC-Link portion of the board uses a LPC3154 for the debugging. Looking at the datasheet. LPCXpres...
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Embedded newbie: Fixing missing modules error in Raspbian
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Fixing missing modules error in Raspbian. If you have used hifi's raspbian-ua-netinst, the unattended Raspbian installer. You might run into problems with modules:. ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/3.10-3-rpi: No such file or directory. FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory. I fixed this problem with:. Note that this will also upgdare your firmware and the linux kernel! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Review of Arduino DAC solutions.
