An ongoing list of questions, bugs, and feature requests on a Pixelbook Is there a button on the keyboard to go the next or previous song? How can I remap the keys to get the same app-switching functionality as comand-tab on a Mac? How can I get more actions within the Chrome file system? What … Continue reading An ongoing list of questions, bugs, and feature requests on a Pixelbook
So I had a server on Linode that I had not updated for a while, and it was running Ubuntu 11.04 — which was so old that it was no longer easy for me to just update the OS from that server. Essentially, all the tools to upgrade that OS were so out of date that I … Continue reading Migrating an old Linode on Ubuntu 11.08 to Ubuntu 18.04
(big help from http://zaidox.com/os-x-mavericks-virtualenv-and-pip.html, seems this was a common problem) Just to document the issue I had with my local pip, python and virtualenv setup after updating my Mac to 10.10 Yosemite. A few things I saw initially: Virtual env seemed to disappear /usr/bin/python: No module named virtualenvwrapper virtualenvwrapper.sh: There was a problem running the … Continue reading Issues with Pip, Python and Virtual Env After Updating Mac 10.10 Yosemite
MySQL Doesn’t Install on Mac Yosemite 10.10 How to fix This website had the fix for me: http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/get-apache-mysql-php-phpmyadmin-working-osx-10-10-yosemite/ Summary was: Download the 64 bit dmg (only 10.9 was available, oddly when unzipped it said 10.8) http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ Customize the install and uncheck the startup item Manually start mysql from command line and modify path in profile/bashrc … Continue reading MySQL Doesn’t Install on a Mac Yosemite 10.10
That was the google query I searched and it took me a long time to find an answer so I’m going to contribute it back to the internet. Most helpful resources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9119497/i-can-connect-to-db-through-sequel-pro-but-not-through-command-line http://www.sequelpro.com/docs/Connecting_to_a_MySQL_Server_on_a_Remote_Host (almost helpful: http://it.blog.adclick.pt/linux/amazon-rds-tunnel-access-from-your-desktop/ ) Problem I wanted to connect to a remote RDS instance from my mac computer. You normally would connect … Continue reading Connecting to a RDS Server from a Local Computer Using SSH Tunneling on a Mac
I had an old macbook pro that had been sitting around for maybe 6 or more months, and I tried to turn it on to use it, and the first thing I noticed was that 1) it was mostly frozen, and 2) the trackpad was not clicking. This made it hard to use, but with … Continue reading Trackpad Not Working on Macbook Pro