For many, getting a laptop is a rite of passage in the International Baccalaureate; it is the defining symbol of those who are truly dedicated to the sacred cause of the IB. As the glowing logos of Apple, HP and Dell begin to surround you in class, you begin to ask yourself whether you, a [...Read more...]
For those with dual-boot (or above) systems, the Windows partition often contains many files that we have been unable or too lazy to migrate to our Linux partitions. Therefore, being able to access this partition is an important issue. The ntfs-3g program for Linux allows us to do that quite easily. However, as I quickly [...Read more...]
I recently did a minimal install of Debian, so I had a lot of package installing to do afterwards. Imagine my horror when this error appeared in the package installing window on Synaptic Package Manager: Preconfiguring packages … dpkg: `update-rc.d’ not found on PATH. dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. NB: root’s PATH [...Read more...]
Simply input the following command into Terminal: history | sed ‘s/ / /g’ | cut -d” ” -f3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr EDIT: Thanks to rmull from reddit, the code should be fixed now. For me, the output is: 55 exit 51 update 44 apt-get 39 [...Read more...]
If you’ve ever had an iPod Touch/iPhone, you may notice that the error “iPod is disabled – Connect to iTunes” may appear. This is because someone (or something?) has tried to crack your password too many times, which causes the iPod / iPhone to automatically disable itself to protect your data. To restore your iPod, [...Read more...]
iOS, the new operating system for Apple mobile systems, has just been released. I’d describe each feature, but instead I shall provide you with the README file from Apple: This update contains over 100 new features, including the following: – Multitasking support for third-party apps* – Multitasking user interface to quickly move between apps – Support [...Read more...]
PDF (Portable Document Files) can be viewed with a wide variety of PDF viewers, such as Adobe PDF viewer, foxit, Evince, etc. For many people, including me, opening these folders can be a pain because of the failure of PDF plugins in browsers and slow-loading PDF programs which make the entire process a pain. Interestingly [...Read more...]