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Cogs games on Linux not working?
See this forum posting for a potential fix, if your using an ATI graphics card: http://forum.lazy8studios.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=h1d37r13a2d2ccnk5c5j6b2c94&topic=475.msg837#msg837 This is a fix...
View ArticleBuild & Install Osra 1.3.8 on Ubuntu 11.10
Summary Osra is a a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical structures create by Igor Filippov at the National Cancer Institute. This page documents how to compile and install...
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Sunset over the Charles River
Taken with my HTC Sensation phone, which is an Android phone: Sunset over the Charles River
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Google doesn’t trust itself?
I thought this warning from Gmail about an e-mail from Google Alerts was funny. Gmail and Google alerts are both Google services. Gmail Warning
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The Nokia 6230!
Nokia 6230i Do you remember when a phone like the Nokia 6230 was the phone to have? I remember trying to get one of these for use in the US after seeing a friend’s phone in Ireland. At the time you...
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My Popular Flickr Pics.
1. Pics of snow!, 2. Ivy Escapes, 3. Duck at sunrise, 4. Boston Twilight, 5. Main Street, Donegal Town. 1930’s, 6. Donegal Town: The Diamond 1973, 7. Celtic Sprially Wrought-iron, 8. Frozen Bog...
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Two arty things seen today. The first was this graffiti on a brick wall on Boston Newbury’s Street. I was caught it from the right angle and thought the text and the tree were prefect juxtaposed: The...
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Need 3D Printing in Boston?
Go visit my friend Sean at Boston 3D Printsmiths: http://www.3dprintsmith.com/ 3D Additive Manufacturing
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Python-LDAP: List the Group Membership of a User
Unless your an LDAP expert it’s not obvious how to find the groups a user is member of, and that also describes how you need to tackle this problem. This code makes a lot of assumptions and also...
View Article404 Errors On Pagespeed Generated JS & CSS
To improve performance of the SBGrid Web site I’ve been using Google’s Pagespeed Module for Apache. There is a module available for both Apache & NGinx, and it can improve the performance of a Web...
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My Phone Collection.
My Phones over the years. Starting on the left is my very last feature phone a Sony Ericsson C902. Of all of these phones it makes the best phone-calls. Keeping this thing as it was such a great phone....
View ArticleOnePlus One: No LTE or Network
I recently upgraded my OnePlus One to Android 6.0.1 and while I can make phone calls I don’t have any network connectivity unless I’m on WiFi. The symptoms are; Can’t send email, No access any websites...
View Articledjango.db.utils.DataError: invalid value for parameter “TimeZone”
If your Django Apps throws this error: cursor.execute(self.ops.set_time_zone_sql(), [tz]) django.db.utils.DataError: invalid value for parameter "TimeZone": "America/New_York" The problem is that...
View ArticleMoving a Directory from One Git Repo to Another (with history)
git log --pretty=email --patch-with-stat --reverse --full-index --binary directory_name > /tmp/directory_name_patch; git init directory_name; cd directory_name; git am < /tmp/directory_name_patch;
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Let’s Encrypt Cert & Nginx (Using a Web Proxy) on Centos 6.x
This was done on Centos 6 where prebuilt ‘certbot’ packages are not available. On Centos 7, install ‘certbot’ from the EPEL repo. cd ~root; mkdir certbot; wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto; chmod...
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Migrate Section of a Git Repo to a new Git Repo
I inherited a git repo that has multiple projects in it. It’s easier to manage the code and dependencies if each of these projects are in their own git repo. The process is pretty simple: Export the...
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Migrate Django 1.4 to 1.11
I thought these rough notes might be useful to anyone migrating from Django 1.4 (and possibly 1.3) to Django 1.11. Moving from South to Django Migrations 1. Update your settings files: Remove ‘south’...
View ArticleCentos 7: qt5 packages missing when installing synergy-1.9.1
The fix is to installed qt5-qtbase & qt5-qtbase-gui: yum install qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-gui The specific warnings are: (more…)
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Edx on Debian Stretch
After you clone the Edx repo there you will find a (undocumented) list of packages required to install on Ubuntu: requirements/system/ubuntu/apt-packages.txt These packages and others are required for...
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VAST Storage API & JQ
Hiking Glendalough Park in Ireland Vast builds some neat storage systems that provide management functionality via a REST API. jq is a command-line JSON processor, or as the author describes it “sed...
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