This guide steps you through the process of installing all the necessary CentOS packages, compiles necessary libraries, and installs Back-in-time on CentOS7
Installation of Backintime on CentOS7
Everyone Loves an Old Fox, Right?
Everyone loves an old Fox, right? Well, actually no. Unlike the Michael J. variety, Mozilla Firefox has slipped into almost complete obscurity as a desktop browser. Depending on your source of data, Firefox's marketshare has slumped from a peak in 2009 of just over 30%, to a lowly 7.69% in August, 2016. Although, it has... Continue Reading →
Docear on macOS: Navigating the Apple Java Nightmare
So this blog post will be brief, as I suppress my disdain for Apple's attitude towards Java, now that they no longer need it to survive due to their App Store ecosystem. This blog post documents how I was able to get the Docear Mindmapping software working on OSX El Capitan (10.11). Sadly, many Java... Continue Reading →
Being BAD at task management
I have co-authored a paper with a colleague, David Jones which was published at the ASCILITE2014 conference being held in Dunedin New Zealand. The paper was titled Breaking BAD to bridge the reality/rhetoric chasm. The reality/rhetoric chasm is best expressed through the following metaphor, in the words of Professor Mark Brown: E-learning's a bit like... Continue Reading →
How to Install Backintime Backup Software on CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux 7
Introduction Hopefully the title of this post is explanation enough. Backintime is a neat backup solution that mimics in some ways, the abilities of OSX' Timemachine backup system. At predetermined time intervals, Backintime will sweep configured directories on your computer, and only backup the differences since the last sweep. It results in an efficient use... Continue Reading →
Omnifocus2 – A tale of the disappearing deferred tasks
Sadly due to work commitments, I have neglected my blog over the past 2 years. I plan to reinvigorate things again, starting with this post that I wrote back in August 2014, but never actually pressed the 'Publish' button. I have recently switched from my existing Mac-based task management software Things, to a new product... Continue Reading →
Arrow key scroll in Mac Excel
Ever been using Microsoft Excel on the Mac and found that when you use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move from one cell to the next, instead the whole worksheet scrolls? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaDxK7JEOUA This is actually a feature of Microsoft Excel carried over from the Windows version on which you press the Scroll lock... Continue Reading →
Remote Debugging of PHP with Komodo IDE on Mac OS X
I am doing development on Mac OS X 10.7, with Komodo IDE 6.1.3 using PHP and Apache, both installed from Macports. I want to enable remote debugging of my PHP scripts running under Apache using Komodo. Following instructions from Activestate's website, I have configured my system as shown below to make it work. I have... Continue Reading →
Installing DBD::Oracle on RHEL6 with Oracle Instant Client 11.2 rpm
To install the Perl DBD::Oracle module on RHEL6, with the oracle instant client rpms installed, you need to type the following sequence of commands. Keep in mind that 11.2 can be exchanged for your version of Oracle, and that client64 can be exchanged for just client if you are using 32bit linux. From a shell... Continue Reading →
The Mac OS X Terminal – My keyboard mappings
I made the switch from Windows to Mac OS as my chosen desktop operating system nearly 4 years ago, and I've never looked back. I continue to use Linux as my preferred server operating system. Of a handful of frustrations from my switch to Mac OS, one I have solved today. The Mac OS Terminal... Continue Reading →
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