Posted on Fri 13 June 2008 in Technology • Tagged with vim, iphone, ubuntu, wiki
The following 4 guides have been moved over to my MediaWiki site and updated:
I think it makes them much, much …
Posted on Wed 28 May 2008 in Technology • Tagged with linux, iphone, wiki
This guide is horribly out of date, and much more concise and updated instructions can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone
I’m writing this guide after upgrading my 1.1.2 jailbroken iPhone to 1.1.4. As with my last guide, I don’t …
Posted on Mon 26 May 2008 in Technology • Tagged with wiki
Due to the fact that most of my content is guides and that wordpress isn’t properly displaying some of the text, I’m moving my how-tos over to MediaWiki at http://wiki.control-d.com. The other content will stay over here on WordPress. I’ll be making posts when …
Posted on Tue 13 May 2008 in Technology • Tagged with linux, ubuntu, wiki
After doing a fresh install of Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) on my Toshiba Portege M400 there were some configuration changes that needed to be made.
Posted on Thu 27 March 2008 in Technology • Tagged with linux, debian, lighttpd
I noticed that everyday I had a defunct logrotate process on one of my servers running Debian and lighttpd. After some searching I found this bug report that said to make the following changes to my /etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd file:
postrotate
if [ -f /var/run/lighttpd.pid ]; then \
if …Posted on Sun 30 December 2007 in Technology • Tagged with linux, wacom
I upgraded my Toshiba Protege M400 to Gusty and to my surprise the wacom input stopped working. After searching the internet without much success, I notice that there were two wacom devices, /dev/wacom and /dev/input/wacom. Both were symlinks to /dev/ttyS0, which makes sense as the tablet …
Posted on Sat 24 November 2007 in Technology • Tagged with iphone, linux, wiki
The following guide is deprecated, and the instructions here should not be used on a 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 iPhone. There are much easier steps in windows now, and running ‘passwd’ on a 1.1.3/1.1.4 iphone will cause the menu (Springboard) to continuously …
Posted on Fri 13 July 2007 in Technology • Tagged with xbox
BIOS: X2 4977
Dashboard: EvolutionX 3935
Mods:
Posted on Wed 02 May 2007 in Technology • Tagged with vim, wiki
This guide has been updated for Hardy Heron (8.04)
Install R with the following command:
sudo apt-get install r-base
Then download the newest vim-r-plugin package from http://www.uft.uni-bremen.de/chemie/ranke/debs/sid-jr/vim-r-plugin_0.5-79_all.deb with the following command:
wget …Posted on Wed 02 May 2007 in Technology • Tagged with vim, wiki
VIM (Vi IMproved) is a powerful text editor available for *nix and many other systems, including Windows. It emulates the behavior of the classic vi editor written by Bill Joy but adds many features.
Unfortunately, vim does not come installed on Ubuntu Linux. What seems …