My wife has a Moto G and really likes the phone. She was needing to move and backup some pictures and ran into an issue where it would not work. On this post “acjaveline” gave the solution that worked for us. It was: This is a known issue with the Marshmallow update on G3 with SD […]
I just spent 6 hours trying to figure out why I was getting random 404 page not found errors in WordPress when I tried to pass GET parameters in the URL. I was passing year and month variables to a WP page in the following format: http://mywebsite.com/view-units/?month=1&year=2017 A year of 2016 would work fine. A year […]
Today I had some stubborn folders that I could not remove from the trash. In the end, this command did the trick: sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*
This information was taken from this site: https://mcuoneclipse.com/2015/12/24/autostarting-openhab-on-raspberry-pi/ In “Installing openHAB Home Automation on Raspberry Pi” I have set up openHAB on a Raspberry Pi 2. But when I reboot it, I need to start openHAB manually. This post is about how to start openHAB automatically after a reboot. openHAB running Download the following zip file:https://github.com/mepi0011/openhab.doc/raw/master/examples/autostart.zip. […]
Once in a while while working with Ubuntu, I’ll get this error in the top right corner. Some of the lines it says are: An error occurred, Please run Package Manager… Error: Opening the cache Encountered a section with no Package: header… dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main This package list or status file could not be parsed or opened This […]
I need to frequently use mail-merge in Gimp. I finally found a good script, thanks to Saul Goode. Here is the script. ; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ; the Free Software Foundation; either version […]
The best guide for wiring the ESP8266 ESP-01 I found is here. Using the Arduino IDE: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/doc/reference.md#digital-io another: http://www.whatimade.today/esp8266-easiest-way-to-program-so-far/ Sample GET request: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah-esp8266-breakout/using-arduino-ide
One of my Java programs wasn’t working well today on the GUI side of things. I was running Java 7.0 and decided it was time to upgrade to Java 8.0 Thankfully, upgrading to 8.0 seems to have fixed my problems. Here are the simple commands. To give credit, they are form this page. It has […]
I just bought a OrangePi (model “PC”) It cost me $15 plus $3 for shipping. The documentation is rather limited. Here are a couple of the most helpful links I found: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342 http://vosse.blogspot.hr/2015/10/installing-linux-img-files-on-orange-pi.html http://tech.scargill.net/orange-pi-pc/ Editing script.bin and copying uImage was an important step (See here for details on all the steps) I had missed in […]
We use OpenVPN for various purposes. Here is a quick overview of how to install it. 1. Install the client: sudo apt-get install openvpn 2. Install the network manager: sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn
