I really loved using VMWare Fusion in OSX to test my webpages in Windows. The power to just drag a whole Windows installation into the trash when it gets jacked up is intoxicating. Unfortunatly, Jaunty is still not supported by VMWare, and the bugs were just to much. Plus, I really didn’t like the [...]
I’ve been looking for a command line ftp utility that does tab completion and supports sftp. lftp is it! It comes pre-installed on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty.
change directory: cd
change local directory: lcd
list directory contents: ls
list local directory contents: !ls
print local working directory: lpwd
Put a file: put filename
Put multiple files: mput filename1 filename2
Get a file: get [...]
There is a lot of false information floating around the interweb about this one, but here’s how to get the right resolution on your external monitor when running Ubuntu Jaunty on a Macbook 2-1:
Edit the xorg.conf file by typing the following into the terminal: sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Edit that file to look like this:
Section “Monitor”
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For whatever reason, sometimes the transparent parts of PNGs appear darker in Safari than in other browsers. You can fix it by removing all the color correction metadata from the images with pngcrush:
pngcrush -rem gAMA -rem cHRM -rem iCCP -rem sRGB InputFile.png OutputFile.png
pngcrush is a command line tool that optimizes (read: makes smaller) PNG images. [...]
Originally posted on 10/9/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com
This is important because it allows me to use textmate as my editor. I freaking love textmate. For instructions of how to do this go here:
http://flashalisious.com/2007/07/30/installing-as3-and-flex-bundle-for-textmate/
Do what he says, copy and paste the code he gives into the terminal all at once and press enter. Terminal will [...]
Originally posted on 10/3/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com
Vague instructions from the book led me to my first roadblock. Can’t blame ‘em, there’s just to many OSs out there to write for all of them. But we’re smart right? Right.
This video includes step by step instructions for how to install the Flex SDK and the correct [...]