Category Archives: Computers

My Collection of Atari 2600 Game Cartridges

This is for documentary purposes only. Who knows if they work or not…

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SGI Silicon Graphics Onxy2 Infinite Reality 3 Power Supply Swap

I recently tried to power up the Onyx2 with an audience and the power supply blew with a loud pop. Then nothing. I let it sit for a month and decided to diagnose the problem. Opening the system revealed the … Continue reading

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Installing PHP 5.6.14 with phpbrew and homebrew on OS X El Capitan.

Running: phpbrew install 5.6.14 +default +mcrypt +fpm …first results in the compilation error: checking for pkg-config… /usr/local/bin/pkg-config configure: error: Cannot find OpenSSL’s …overcoming that leaves you with the link error: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: “_PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC”, referenced from: _zif_openssl_pbkdf2 in … Continue reading

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Postres on OS X Notes

sudo mkdir -p /opt/local/var/db/postgresql94/defaultdb sudo chown postgres:postgres /opt/local/var/db/postgresql94/defaultdb sudo su postgres -c ‘/opt/local/lib/postgresql94/bin/initdb -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql94/defaultdb’ /opt/local/lib/postgresql94/bin/postgres -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql94/defaultdb or /opt/local/lib/postgresql94/bin/pg_ctl -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql94/defaultdb -l logfile start

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PathFinder for OS X is Still a Mess

Here’s my request to support: Four years ago I abandoned OS X after being frustrated with Finder, then trying PathFinder only to discover that selecting a file and pressing ‘Backspace’ only emitted a less than satisfying ‘beep.’ The response to … Continue reading

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A fun location guessing game

Guess where you’ve been dropped into the world: https://geoguessr.com

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Install Laravel 4.1 on PHP 5.3 Centos 6 Linux System

From: http://dor.ky/install-old-version-of-laravel-4-1-x-for-php-5-3-servers-using-composer/ composer create-project laravel/laravel project-directory 4.1.*

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Code signing conversion instructions

openssl pkcs12 -in disco.p12 -nocerts -nodes -out disco.pem openssl rsa -in disco.pem -outform PVK -out disco.pvk openssl pkcs12 -in disco.p12 -nokeys -out disco.cert openssl crl2pkcs7 -nocrl -certfile disco.cert -outform DER -out disco.spc openssl rsa -inform PEM -in disco.pem -outform DER … Continue reading

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Commands to Map Linux Device IDs to Drive Letters

From here: http://www.phuket-data-wizards.com/blog/2011/07/16/matching-linux-ata-numbers-to-the-device-names/ grep ‘[0-9]’ /sys/class/scsi_host/host{0..9}/unique_id ls -l /sys/block/sd*

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Google’s going to retire iGoogle

iGoogle’s a great product that millions enjoy everyday. Why would they do this? Two words: Facebook, Apple. Note in their annoucement the emphasis on Android. Google simply can not have their eyeballs (us) using non-Google platforms anymore. Period. Full stop. … Continue reading

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