Taovilla Oracle can be found on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idqpuwlneqs5byrkfzkc&hl=en_GB It’s a new free android chinese calendar conversion tool on android app store. Technically, I do not dwell too much about oriental culture on this blog, but since it was built entirely using meteorjs as a fun side project of mine, I thought I should share it […]

Installing Debian 8 Go to https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ and download amd64 under the net install. If you are on a mac (its safe to use amd64 although yours is most likely to have intel x86 architecture). Otherwise choose as required. Bootup your virtualbox by adding a new instance. Most of the default settings work. When it comes to […]

Once in a while, when homebrew or through system updates, it presents significant changes that may cause homebrew to stop working. To check, run “brew doctor” If you get the following, there is an indication of permission problems. This can be easily solved by running “sudo chown $(whoami) /usr/local/bin” for the first error. You can […]

It is named wang shen zhou (after life chants) and used to bless the deceased with all benevolent karma. nan mo ah mi duo po ye duo ta jie duo ye duo di ye ta ah mi li duo po bi ah mi li duo shi dan po bi ah mi li duo pi jia […]

From caffeine 2.8 onwards, the indicator is removed and caffeine starts automatically. Meaning that, if you have a window full-screen, it will trigger. If you wish to get the manual icon back, you can run the following. Install Caffeine opening terminal running this line: > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:caffeine-developers/ppa > sudo apt-get upgrade > sudo apt-get install […]

Wordpress normally needs FTP details for updating wordpress itself or to install plugins. If you do not have such information. You can bypass this by logging into your server and finding the config.php file in your wordpress. Backup your config.php by: > cp config.php config.bak.php then add in the following lines to the end of the […]

Just a starter note on which languages are installed on vanilla modern OS installations: —– MacOSX (10.9+) – bash, html, java, javascript,objective-c, perl, python, php, ruby Windows 8 – batch, html, javascript, jscript, vbscript Linux Ubuntu / Debian (14.04 Trusty) desktop – bash, html, javascript, perl, python Linux Redhat / Fedora – bash, html, java, javascript, perl, python Linux […]

When I was young, Xcom used to be one of my top games along with Koei’s Three Kingdoms. Over the last few years, an open source version of x-com named openxcom is released (http://openxcom.org/). It like back to the old days for me. The installation comes a little tricky and I have some notes below. […]

Just a quick refresher on installation of Java 7 on Ubuntu (*buntu) $ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties software-properties-common $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer $ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-set-default $ sudo update-alternatives –config java Similarly, Java 8 can be install via: $ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer $ sudo […]

You can convert an image to ascii art. First install using the aview which is part of aalib using homebrew. http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aview/ > brew install aview Make sure you have a graphics converter. Some use imagemagick, but I recommend graphicsmagick due to the simplicity of command. http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ > brew install graphicsmagick Aview supports only pnm (graphics format). Now […]