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If you are constantly have to type your password in due to a long installation (like a few hours), then here’s the trick. Add the following line with   ““ sudo visudo   You should use visudo so that it checks your sudoers file and makes it work, but to…

Paying $200 for an SSL certificate which is really just a set of numbers does seem ridiculous. Now there is a free service for this called Let’s Encrypt (http://letsencrypt.com)

The mirrorless E-mount A9 will have all the things needed to be “PRO”: Worlds fastest autofocus in normal light conditions Close to 50MP FF sensor weather sealed body Can’t wait to see this!

Talk about mysterious, if you actually want to use this particularly on VMWare Fusion, there doesn’t seem to be much documentation: Google Hangout starts and looks to see what active /dev/video[0-9] are open. That is, if you want this to work, your webcam needs to be active or any synthetic…

This is a really annoying bug that seems to happen very regular on some systems. It looks like this has something to do with mail transport bugs and the wrong error being reported according to Stackexchange I’m running Mac OS 10.8.1 and have a (personal) Gmail and a (work) Google…

When you are trying to migrate DNS Servers, http://viewdns.info/dnsrecord/ is really useful. Let’s you look at what is up there so you can easily recreate it and then do the cut over. To remind everyone here is what you have to do. It’s a three step process; Figure out who…

Wow more things to worry about, but the net is : Update your Windows system now. There is a 19 year old bug found in their SChannel security layer. IBM folks discovered it and allows software you download to take control Dark Hotel. This is a targeted attack where people…

I’ve seen quite a few reviews of the two. I’ve been using Lastpass for the last few years and it isn’t expensive ($12) but most reviews seem to prefer 1Password. Last time I tried it it was unusable because it didn’t grok multiple users on the same site (e.g. I…

Well, use task manager for basic performance monitoring Here are some other things: Install chromium which is open source chrome: sudo apt-get install chromium-browser Flash for the last four sites in the world that use it sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree VLC seems way better than the native player sudo apt-get…

Well, I remember well the days of regedit horrors, but it was sure better than .ini files anywhere. Linux has followed much the same evolution going from .conf files to XML files to a binary registry. Of course with Unix, you get now one but four major ways to edit…