Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'howto'

How do I Expand the Hard-Drive Space allocated to Guest OS? (View topic) • virtualbox.org

successfully used this to enlarge one of my VirtualBox hard drives. the only catch was that Windows 7 didn't recognize the new size on reboot: i had to use the device manager to get it to expand.

virtualbox harddrives howto virtualization
april 2010 by sogrady

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The making of the NYT’s Netflix graphic – The Society for News Design

just what it says. very interesting.

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Video Tutorial: Configuring WPtouch with WP Super Cache ↔ BraveNewCode Inc.

if you update your plugins and WPtouch stops working, it might be an issue with WP-Supercache. try these instructions to restore the functionality: it worked just fine for me.

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january 2010 by sogrady

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EC2StartersGuide - Community Ubuntu Documentation

just what it says: very nice piece of documentation

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november 2009 by sogrady

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The Silent Number: Top things to do after installing Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Karmic Koala

very useful summary of post-installation tweaks, apps, and more for Ubuntu Karmic users

karmic ubuntu gnome howto 9.10 tutorial setup tips
november 2009 by sogrady

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Git Magic

good work on git and its capabilities

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november 2009 by sogrady

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To Be a Consultant, a freelancer or an independent contractor | jacquesmattheij.com

some really useful suggestions out there for folks working for themselves

howto entrepreneur selfemployed
october 2009 by sogrady

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Flickr: Discussing Nikon d40x HDR in HDR

good HDR instructions from this discussion

hdr nikon d40x flickr howto
january 2009 by sogrady

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How-To: Install Ubuntu Linux With No Optical Drive | PCMech

i'll be using this shortly. it's a lot easier than it used to be.

howto ubuntu install flash
september 2008 by sogrady

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Creating mashups on the Google App Engine using Eclipse, Part 1: Creating the application

interesting for several reasons

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Linux On A Stick: Fedora 9 Puts Your Desktop on a USB Drive

good news. i always thought Fedora's "it's easy to make a Fedora Flash boot disk easy...if you already have Fedora" was something of a flawed process

fedora linux usb howto flash
may 2008 by sogrady

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Video: Twitter in Plain English | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English

i still think it should be "what are you doing that's interesting?" rather than "what are you doing?," but it's an otherwise excellent explanation of the Twitter service

twitter video web2.0 commoncraft howto tutorial videos
march 2008 by sogrady

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Filters for Google Reader

need to give this one a whirl. excellent.

filters googlereader greasemonkey howto
march 2008 by sogrady

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eigenclass - A better backup system based on Git

interesting. don't think i'm moving to it just yet, but interesting.

backups git sysadmin linux howto via:joshua
march 2008 by sogrady

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po-ru.com: Bleeding-edge ffmpeg on Ubuntu Feisty

used this to get ffmpeg built such that i can transcode from ogg. good times!

ubuntu ffmpeg howto video linux ogg
february 2008 by sogrady

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Current Backup Solution | alexking.org

everyone needs one of these

backup alexking howto
february 2008 by sogrady

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How To Convert Ogg Theora File to Flash Video Format? | LAMPComputing.com

this may come in handy this week, though it appears that Blip.tv (our TV backend at the moment) will handle the OGG files that recordmydesktop generates

flash linux ogg video ffmpeg convert howto
february 2008 by sogrady

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The Zone Manager: The WordPress® 2-Step

interesting explanation of how to install WordPress within a Solaris zone

solaris wordpress zones howto via:matt
january 2008 by sogrady

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Gimp fade out effect | Gimp | Philipp's blog

was only semi-successful with this

gimp fade howto
january 2008 by sogrady

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How to Brew - By John Palmer - Contents

by giving this book away online, Palmer's pretty much ensured that when - not if - i buy texts, he's going to be the first choice

johnpalmer beer homebrew brewing howto reference free
january 2008 by sogrady

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SVN Scripts and Tools | alexking.org

looks like Crowd Favorite hasn't gotten the DVCS religion yet

howto svn crowdfavorite subversion dvcs
january 2008 by sogrady

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How to Shoot Light Trails

neat. i know this is trite for the real photographers in the audience, but i'm not a real photographer, and hence will probably try this. maybe I-25 to start, as it's just blocks away.

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january 2008 by sogrady

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FOSSwire » Bullet proof your server #2 - SSH

hadn't known about 'ssh-copy-id' - cool stuff

ssh security linux howto sysadmin
january 2008 by sogrady

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Beer Brewing for Beginners - Allrecipes

good refresher, as it's been a while. suggestions as to good recipes for the first batch are welcome.

beer brewing howto
december 2007 by sogrady

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Creating Snapshot Backups Of Your Desktop With Timevault On Ubuntu 7.10 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

hmm...halfway point between a virtualized instance snapshot. may give this a whirl.

apps backup debian howto timevault snapshot via:pgc
december 2007 by sogrady

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Creating Screencasts on Linux | popey.com

been tinkering w/ xvidcap for a couple of days now with little success. will keep trying, however.

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Ubuntu: Sensor temperature monitoring with lm-sensors

sadly, there don't appear to be sensors for the Thinkpad X40, so no temperature monitoring for me

ubuntu cpu temperature sensors hardware howto lm-sensors
december 2007 by sogrady

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Ubuntu Customization Guide v2 « Tux Enclave.

nothing terribly new, but some useful tweaks in here

ubuntu compiz configuration custom customization howto gnome
november 2007 by sogrady

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My Quiet Life » HDR and Tonemapping in Linux

"I thought I’d write up my workflow for mucking around with HDR and Tonemapping in Linux." - complicated, but useful and relatively complete

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Organizing my stuff

fairly *nix specific, but useful nonetheless

bash grep gtd hacks howto productivity organization lifehack
october 2007 by sogrady

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[Gimp-user] change colors

GIMP tip that does, indeed, work

gimp changecolors howto
july 2007 by sogrady

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Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Migrating a Family to Google Apps from Gmail, Thunderbird, Outlook and others: The Definitive Guide

very comprehensive writeup for moving people to Google Apps

howto google apps migration imap tools
july 2007 by sogrady

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itguyonline.com » Blog Archive » Cingular AirCard 875

specifics on getting the Cingular card up and running on Ubuntu Feisty; could prove useful

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Comparing notes on speaker preparation « Jon Udell

interesting. i might have to try this - i'm more a Zawodny style presenter at this point

jonudell presentation howto speaker preparation advice
may 2007 by sogrady

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Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous

very solid list of community building tips

community building tips howto
may 2007 by sogrady

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Only Ubuntu Linux: Bash Shell Keyboard Shortcuts For Linux Users

didn't know most of these

linux bash keyboard shortcuts useful howto cheatsheet
april 2007 by sogrady

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Anne 2.0 » Blog Archive » How to Make Your Blog Popular

ha - i violate at least half of these, probably why i'm not popular ;)

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Django on nginx

interesting; Django on nginx is apparently pretty fast - can't remember who pointed me here

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february 2007 by sogrady

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How to Safely Swim With Piranhas - WikiHow

good to know...for all those times i'm swimming with piranhas

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Quick MySQL Backup Setup

i've been meaning to try out zmanda; this howto removes any last barrier to entry - except for time. will be giving it a whirl soon as i get back to the office

zmanda admin administration opensource mysql backup database howto linux tutorial
october 2006 by sogrady

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Pass on Passwords with scp | Linux Journal

the SCP stuff is pretty basic, but this is useful primer on securing machines with keys for simpler SSH

ssh via:NerdVittles linux scp howto
october 2006 by sogrady

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ArsGeek :: Ubuntu Tricks - how to generate a list of installed packages and use it to reinstall packages

using this to backup my Ubuntu applications list

ubuntu applications backup dpkg configuration howto opensource recovery apt-get admin automation
september 2006 by sogrady

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Comprehensive guide to .htaccess- intro

this is definitely going to come in handy sooner rather than later

howto apache via:Digg sysadmin configuration
september 2006 by sogrady

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Angelic Penguins: SLED Menu For Ubuntu (Uslab) Now In Repo

tried this, but couldn't adjust to it; maybe another time

sled ubuntu gnome menu usability howto gui
september 2006 by sogrady

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How to Survive a Long Fall - WikiHow

"It is always best not to fall at all." sage advice from WikiHow

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Installing Gentoo on a Thinkpad x60s - Linux ThinkPad Wiki

finally got around to writing up my Thinkwiki Gentoo / x60s installation page; now i just hope people will add to it

redmonk O'Grady linux howto gentoo x60s setup installation
august 2006 by sogrady

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BluetoothDialup - Community Ubuntu Documentation

this works for Cingular - APN line should be (between single quotes) '+CGDCONT=1,"IP","WAP.CINGULAR" ' and dialout # should be *99***1# - i love having bluetooth DUN

bluetooth gprs howto linux ubuntu cingular
august 2006 by sogrady

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Ubuntu dapper - How_to_configure_sound_to_work_properly_in_GNOME

need to try this tomorrow and see if i can get my mic working properly

gnome howto reference ubuntu sound mic linux desktop x60s thinkpad
july 2006 by sogrady

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Boing Boing: Mark Pilgrim's list of Ubuntu essentials for ex-Mac users

wow. this is big news. cory, another long time mac head, is leaving the platform in favor of Linux

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june 2006 by sogrady

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scp howto

very useful quick howto on scp file transfer usage - just used this to ssh our mt db up to hicks

howto useful scp file transfer ssh admin
june 2006 by sogrady

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The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users » Slacker Manager

very useful summary of some del.icio.us habits; there are a few on there that i don't use enough

del.icio.us habit hacking howto useful
may 2006 by sogrady

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Stopdesign | Google Calendar tips

some great tips on how to use Google Calendar - doesn't solve my multi-calendar problem, but it's still useful (via Chetan)

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may 2006 by sogrady

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10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed

interesting; some of these definitely resonate with me

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Ubuntu, Rails, Typo and Apache2

tried these instructions; Typo's still not working for me, weirdly

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may 2006 by sogrady

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TelegramSam - Google Calendar SMS Tricks

i can't try this b/c i'm on Verizon; can someone out there who's not give it a whirl and let me know if it works?

verizon google calendar sms notification innovation hacks howto mobile phone
april 2006 by sogrady

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TruePath Technologies - Enterprise Monitoring Service Provider - Free WebSite Monitoring

confirming yet again that if you want a vibrant platform, you need a good API, because no matter how big you get, you're never as creative as the masses