TL;DR: an incoherent rant detailing the OSs currently installed on my VAIO laptop upon entering 2017, gripes about them, and some other useless banter. Nice, fast SSD. No complaints, except I'd like a larger one to be able to install more distros simultaneously. I basically have four 20GB slots for Linux installs, but it'd be… Read more →
I created a 'games' tab to declutter my main Apps group a bit, but upon restarting the phone the games group is listed first: This is not ideal. My first thought was to long press on a Tab label, then drag the Tab. Nope. Ok, well if not the obvious, then long press, select Edit… Read more →
Back when I was in University I preferred NetBeans for Java development. I recently took University of Finland's free Java MOOCs and that also happens to be the IDE their code-checking tools use. So I'm used to NetBeans' quirks and prefer to continue to use it. The official Forge Documentation doesn't have setup info for… Read more →
I've been studying Java again lately and decided to look into doing a Minecraft mod as more practice. I'm currently running Windows 10 x64 RTM + latest updates (v1511 build 10586.420). I started following the Getting Started guide in the Forge Documentation and once I got to Step 4 had some issues, so this first… Read more →
In Part One, I looked at a couple image-heavy sites and how they behaved when adding their posts to each of the external services available via Inoreader. This time I'll look at guitar lessons from a few different places – same as with the previous post, the websites differ and therefore show up differently in… Read more →
In Part One, I looked at a couple image-heavy sites and how they behaved when adding their posts to each of the external services available via Inoreader. This time I'll look at guitar lessons from a few different places – same as with the previous post, the websites differ and therefore show up differently in… Read more →
After Google’s announcement regarding Reader’s impending doom, I spent weeks trying out alternatives, including self-hosted offerings. I eventually settled on Inoreader , after seeing someone recommend it in a comment on a post about Google Reader alternatives. This post is regarding the “integration” options you can see at the top of each post in Column… Read more →
I just installed v0.6.0.0 of Open Live Writer and am giving it a go on Windows 10 Pro RTM, with latest updates. I’d used Windows Live Writer in the past but not in a long time, so this seems a little more advanced than what I remember. It’s basically like WordPad, but allows you to… Read more →