my favourite albums of 2012
In order, kinda:
- grimes - visions
- fiona apple - the idler wheel...
- chromatics - kill for love
- kendrick lamar - good kid, M.A.A.D. city
- twin shadow - confess
- beach house - bloom
- dirty projectors - swing lo magellan
- frank ocean - channel orange
- japandroids - celebration rock
- killer mike - R.A.P. Music
So little time …
more ...2012-12-21 links
A collection of links from the last week or so. Stuff you might have missed that I think is awesome, and stuff you will have no interest in.
Are you a Lone Wolf programmer?
Kim Dotcom: "We believe within five years half of all Internet traffic will be encrypted with …
Updating to Eclipse 3.8 broke ADT plugin
I recently updated to Ubuntu 12.10 and Eclipse 3.8 Indigo. My ADT plugin was gone, and I was having trouble installing it again.
I was getting this error in the software installer:
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found. Software being …
my presence is a present
I accidentally wget'd the contents of a Github page instead of the "raw" link to the file. In trying to figure out what was going on, I found this near the bottom of the file:
As Kanye West said: > We're living the future so > the present is our past.
Bahaha …
more ...2012-09-09 quote
fix apt-get and update repositories on TonidoPlug 1
I've done this so many times now, and each time I've needed to google it to remind me how, so I'm putting it here for safe-keeping and reference.
The first TonidoPlug (the white one) comes with a custom Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty image. Unfortunately that's no longer supported by Canonical …
more ...fix root user in botched TonidoPlug mysql install
For some reason the settings for the /var/tmp directory conflict with a mysql install on TonidoPlug 1, and the root user does not get created. The solution for this is to change the permissions BEFORE installing mysql.
chmod 777 /tmp
But what if you didn't already know this, or …
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