Fixing antialiased fonts in intelliJ on linux

January 15, 2016

If you’re using intelliJ on linux, know that the default openjdk has defects for supporting antialiased font rendering on Linux. You can google for a patch, or repos to install a fixed jdk, settings to change, compile this that. I found it easiest to… (for me this is on Linux Mint 17.2) Install Oracle Java http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/install-oracle-java-8-in-ubuntu-via-ppa.html […]

Virtualbox and getting USB devices to show up

January 7, 2016

Every few months I’m setting up a new virtualbox OS. I always forget that on a Linux host you need to add your username to the ‘vboxusers’ group (and need the extension pack). Usually in my case, its a linux host, with windows guest… Install virtualbox extension pack to support USB devices, enable USB 2.0/3.0 […]

Install ‘ia32-libs’ on Ubuntu 14.04

June 16, 2014

The ‘ia32-libs’ package for 32bit library support has been removed from Ubuntu. In order to do some flex debugging and get the Flash debug player working in my 64bit Ubuntu environment, I needed to install the 32bit libraries. I found this solution worked for me: sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 sudo -i cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d echo “deb […]

Finally installed my panic button

July 14, 2012

holy cores!

March 1, 2012

Creative Sound Blaster XFI USB and Ubuntu

February 2, 2012

As of kernel in Ubuntu 11.10 (at least as of late 2011 updates), XFI USB (and Titanium HD support) is there. However for whatever reason, it’s disabled by default as a preference/rule in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, and doesn’t show up in listed devices nor does it play. Had to go in that conf file, right near the […]

creating a tar ball with exclusions

February 2, 2012

The example: taring up “proto/” directory, but excluding all the hidden “.svn/” subversion metadata directories. # tar -czvf proto.tgz –exclude=.svn proto/

fastcgi bind() error: permission denied

October 6, 2010

[Wed Oct 06 16:27:53 2010] [crit] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: can’t create server “/opt/ai/core/gui/bin/start_aigui_fastcgi.sh”: bind() failed [/etc/httpd/logs/fastcgi/d6b459611d6278dea13062a91e78bbbb] Mental note, if you see this error in /var/log/httpd/error_log … Know that /etc/httpd/logs is a symlink to /var/log/httpd/ and this error is either permissions problem having to do with “apache” user trying to write following this symlink, OR SELinux […]

sneak preview…

January 8, 2010

… if only there were 48 hours in a day.

Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 & VMWare key mapping

July 10, 2009

I recently updated my system at work to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. It provides a more native environment for our development tools. With Hardy, I had to back port and find hacks for things to meet requirements. Anyway, now happily running 9.04 32-bit, installed VMWare Server 1.0.9 to run a Windows XP Pro client on my […]

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