Speak out while Free Speech is Still Free
You may have seen a bumper sticker that says in bold, red, white and blue letters: “Free Speech Isn’t Free.” This short quote cleverly refers to is the fact that millions of courageous U.S. soldiers...
View ArticleHow to prevent iTunes launching when connecting iPhone
The solution is on the Apple forums: From the iTunes menu at the top go to iTunes>Preferences>Devices>Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically. Check the box at the bottom...
View ArticleHow to prevent iPhoto launching when connecting iPhone
The solution is on the Apple forums: Plug in your iPhone. Launch Image Capture from your Applications folder Select your iPhone once it shows up under devices Look at the lower bottom pane where you’ll...
View Articlehow to track multiple svn branches in git
[Note: This mirrored blog post was originally online at http://www.jukie.net/~bart/blog/svn-branches-in-git If you know Bart, link him here so I can update this citation.] I must say that I am no fan...
View ArticleHow to split a file into 2 chunks in bash
I have a task to take a file with millions of lines, and to split it in exactly two files, with a controlled top `head` portion part A file, and the remainder of the lines in part B file. It actually...
View ArticleHow to fix: The connection has timed out in Firefox 29
If your web page dies in 5 minutes, it may not be a server-side issue I recently ran into a situation where a long-running webpage would timeout after 5 minutes in Firefox. Every time, with no server...
View ArticleHow to fix WordPress wp-admin htpasswd redirect loop
If you want a quick and easy way to boost the security of your WordPress blogs, a simple, fast and easy thing you can do is to place a password on your wp-admin directory. CPanel enables this in a...
View ArticleExtending Apple Apache & PHP with Homebrew
Quick start I recently got a new Macbook Pro (Mavericks) and decided to use the bundled Apache 2.2.6 and PHP 5.4.30. All you have to do is uncomment the PHP extension: LoadModule php5_module...
View ArticleHow to start MySQL on Mac OS X
Observe: macpro:~ me$ mysql.server start Starting MySQL . ERROR! macpro:~ me$ sudo mysql.server start Password: Starting MySQL . SUCCESS!
View ArticleHow to install PHP 5.4 or PHP 5.3 on Mac OS X Yosemite
Yosemite comes with Apache 2.4 & PHP 5.5 preinstalled. You don’t need MAMP, only MySQL or MariaDB. Regardless, you can use PHP 5.5, PHP 5.4 or PHP 5.3 as needed. Try the following… sudo mv...
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