Occasionally my Mac will stop detecting the headphone jack. The only way to fix it, is to reboot, or it was until now. In a terminal run these commands This unloads the audio system and reloads it. If it still doesn’t work, you can try killing the audio service After about 10-20 seconds the service shouldRead more about Restart Mac audio, without restarting your Mac[…]
Sometimes you need to move your website to a temporary address. For me, this is usually for development. The best option is to put in a hosts rule to the computers that need to access the site under the domain, but this is not always an option for everyone. There are numerous posts about addingRead more about Temporary WordPress URL[…]
In upgrading to 15.04 the install broke on installing clamav. It didn’t affect the upgrade but clamav was no longer installed. On running it manually I got the following error error /var/lib/dpkg/info/clamav-daemon.postinst: 626: /var/lib/dpkg/info/clamav-daemon.postinst: cannot create : Directory nonexistent It seems that there is a typo in the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/clamav-daemon.postinst. On line 626 replace $DEBCONFILE withRead more about Ubuntu 15.04 – Clam AV Install Error[…]
Ever start the dd command and sit there wondering if it is still working? An easy way to see the progress is to push ctrl+t
If you ever have issues with weird characters appearing in PDF documents it is most likely a character encoding issue. This often occurs when someone does a copy and paste from Microsoft Word, or similar. Things like quotes get converted into characters that are not properly displayed unless character encoding is kept consistent all theRead more about Dompdf weird characters[…]
Sometimes you need to give automatic scripts access to another box for things like RSYNC. These will usually fail asking for a password unless you do a bit of extra work. To setup passwordless login you need to do the following, under the user account that you want password-less login from. Eg. If you areRead more about SSH Password-less login – Linux[…]
Over the years I have been involved in fixing numerous websites that are performing slow. The PHP execution time on some were insane, into the many minutes. Nearly every time it has been down to the getimagesize() function. This function is terribly slow and should only be used if absolutely necessary. One thing people seemRead more about Don’t use getimagesize() – PHP[…]
Coming from a long background of Windows starting at Windows 3.1, Mac always seemed foreign and pointless. Over the years I had the occasional use of Mac but it was always met with frustration and wonder why anyone bothered with it. It was around Windows XP I started getting frustrated with things on Windows. IRead more about What I realised about Mac OS[…]
I have written a number of posts about a development framework called PhoneGap ( also known as Cordova. ) so I thought I should give a bit of information about what it is. Firstly in regards to PhoneGap vs Cordova, they are basically the same. Cordova is an open source Apache project. PhoneGap is the downstreamRead more about PhoneGap/Cordova[…]
After a friend built an awesome cabinet, I decided to give it a go also. I used the same plans but decided to make it a bit different. The main difference is that all the PC parts are contained within the controller box. This means that it is portable. It wasn’t too hard to buildRead more about Arcade Cabinet[…]