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Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Beta 1 in VirtualBox

· how-to, software

My distro of choice is Linux Mint MATE edition, so naturally I was excited to hear there is an official MATE spin of Ubuntu. MATE (maté) is a fork of the old GNOME2 desktop environment, with bugfixes and enhancements. Here's my experience this evening while watching season 9 & 10 of Red vs. Blue… Read more →

More Portable App Adventures

· software

In the previous post I indicated that I've been interested in making webpages & graphics for a long time now, and was recently remembering using Dreamweaver, mainly for the syncing tools, but still hand-coding most of it. Microsoft released their Expression Web 4 for free and it reminds me a lot of Dreamweaver back in… Read more →

Reminiscing about making web pages

· journal

I taught myself HTML during Xmas break one year while I was in middle school. Since then I've always had some sort of website as a hobby. I was wondering if I could find any of my old stuff online again recently, and brainstorming & research have yielded: *) Crosswinds -- had free hosting, then… Read more →

Sideload Android apps on your Amazon Fire TV Stick

· how-to, software

I picked up an Amazon Fire TV Stick during the 2-day Prime preorder discount and received it after everyone else bought theirs at Best Buy for the same price. Overall, it's a pretty slick device, with a few shortcomings, but it ended up not being super useful at home since I already have a PS3… Read more →

Hello 2015!

· site updates

Ok, figured it out: Made a WordPress multisite now, with subdirs under gunderson.io using EE. Had some issues at first, trying to run EE after I had already gotten a single WordPress blog up & running, so I took a Snapshot (free right now since they are apparently in beta) and blew it away, started… Read more →

Hello Vultr!

· site updates

I spun up a VPS on Vultr over the Holiday Closure (where legally permissible). I was previously using Digital Ocean but Vultr has a Seattle datacenter, which is decidedly closer than the Bay Area. I imported old blog posts to the new Wordpress install, but I'm not really sure how I'm gonna split stuff up… Read more →

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