firefox, fox, browser About five years ago I answered a question on Superuser.com — Can I close firefox browser tab or firefox browser from ubuntu terminal? My answer to this question was to use wmctrl, a CLI program to interact with an X Window Manager. I had completely forgotten about answering that question until today when I was…
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Post thumbnail I’ve been following virtual J-Pop idol Hatsune Miku for some years now. My love for her music, smile, and all around happy aura led me to start a collection of her and other Vocaloid videos. This playlist contains all sorts of Vocaloid content. Original music, covers, medleys, TV spots and promos, album samples, projection technologies,…
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D.E.C.T.I.L.E. remote connection agent terminal This is a mirror of the original announcement post on ludem dare game compo. It details a game I made in 72 hours during a game making competition. It is not playable at the moment because I took the servers down. My game is a mystery/paranormal/clue finding/deciphering game inspired by The Black Watchmen, SCP Foundation,…
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Post thumbnail I started up a new Naemon (Nagios fork) server, and I came across this error while monitoring a Cisco switch. chris@machine:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_snmp -H 192.168.1.62 -C public -o sysUpTime.0 CRITICAL – Plugin timed out while executing system call I researched a bit, and found lots of unresolved forum and mailing list threads about the same issue.…
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Post thumbnail Prerequisites sudo apt-get install build-essential libcups2-dev libcupsimage2-dev Set up CUPS driver Download the Linux toolkit from DYMO Extract tar xvf dymo-cups-drivers-1.4.0.tar.gz change to directory of extracted files cd dymo-cups-drivers-1.4.0.5/ configure the CUPS driver ./configure compile the driver make install the driver sudo make install Now you can go to http://127.0.0.1:631 and add the printer. Use…
Read More DYMO 4XL on Ubuntu 14.04My 2011 Mac Mini was running so slowly, that I decided to back up it’s entire hard disk, and switch to Ubuntu. For the backup process, I opted to boot into a live Ubuntu environment, then use dd to copy the entire hard drive to a USB external hard drive. I can’t remember the exact…
Read More Linux – How to mount an OSX dd disk imageI’m switching from OSX to Ubuntu, and I’d like to be able to play my favorite game. Playonlinux has an install script for League of Legends, but it hasn’t been maintained in awhile, and there are some show stopping bugs. Here is how I got League of Legends to run on Ubuntu 14.04 in September…
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Post thumbnail I have an ASUS K35e which has been a great laptop for the past several years. Recently I got into using virtual machines for many tasks, and the stock 4GB of RAM no longer cut it; my computer ran very slowly during this work. I did some research and I couldn’t get a straight answer…
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Post thumbnail You may run into errors when running OpenBazaar-Server. One common error is this: Traceback (most recent call last): File “openbazaard.py”, line 8, in <module> import stun ImportError: No module named stun This happens because Python (which is running OpenBazaar-Server) doesn’t have access to the Python module, stun. If you have already run the command, pip…
Read More How to create a Python virtual environment for OpenBazaarOpenbazaar on AWS via @mariodian’s guide For this guide, you will need a little patience, a notepad, and a BASH shell with SSH support. If you’re on Linux or OSX, you have everything you need. If you’re on Windows, you will need to download Cygwin, PuTTY, or if you’re on Windows 10, you’ll need Bash.…
Read More How to Install OpenBazaar-Server on AWS (@mariodian method)I’ve been working with Swagger to make an API server. With it, I created https://myopenbazaar.top. Pretty cool software, but I found testing with it pretty confusing. Swagger abstracts away mochajs, and for whatever reason, Swagger was hiding a stack trace of a failure when I was doing testing. $ swagger project test Running tests in:…
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