Play ping pong game in Terminal

Terminal is not boring, in this post I will show you how to play an easy game pingpong with Terminal only Open up Terminal (from Launchpad -> Utilities -> Terminal or from...

One click to customize Dashboard, Mission Control, Launchpad and Login

Lion Designer is the right tool for you to quickly customize your Dashboard, Mission Control, LaunchPad and Login in Mac Lion with simple poin & click. This little free tool allows you...

How to keep Safari in zoom

I’m using Macbook Pro 17″ and the text in Safari looks so small. You can zoom using (Command and +/-) or two fingers on the trackpad. But the problem is that...

Batch images resizer for MacOS using Automator

Want to resize your images without any extra software installed on your Mac? Then this post is for you, we are using existing application named Automator to do the work for...

Connection reset by peer SSH error

Just a quick note to solve my problem with SSH, I can connect to my remote server OK with Putty or Bitvise SSH but not with Cywin or Babun SSH command...

Upgrade kernel in Ubuntu

Today I need to upgrade my Ubuntu box from kernel 2.6 to 3.13, here are my few notes: 1. Check the current kernel root@xxx:~# uname -r 2.6.32-042stab108.5 2. Update your box root@xxx:~# apt-get update 3. Search for...

Fix GPG error NO_PUBKEY when apt-get update your Ubuntu

Some of you might encounter the following error when $apt-get update your Ubuntu system, like mine: Fetched 24.0 MB in 9s (2542 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: <a href="http://archive.canonical.com/" target="_blank">http://archive.canonical.com</a> trusty...

How to install Python 2.7 on BlueHost in 4 steps

1. DOWNLOAD wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/Python-2.7.2.tgz tar zxvf Python-2.7.2.tgz 2. INSTALL cd Python-2.7.2 ./configure –prefix=/home/<your account>/opt/python272 --enable-unicode=ucs4 make make install 3. TEST Now try to run: /home/<your account>/opt/python272/bin/python 4. MAKE IT YOUR DEFAULT PYTHON $vim ~/.bashrc add the following line export PATH=/home/<your account>/opt/python272/bin:$PATH reload the session $source ~/.bashrc

How to calculate MD5 in Linux

Well, there are many ways to calculate MD5 hash of a string, in this post, I show you 3 command line that you can find them handy to get MD5 hash...

Allow MySQL remote connection in Slackware

Okay, after along time working on Mac, today I opened up one of my old project on a Slackware server. And  one of the thing I want to do is connect...