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Being from the wonderful world of true unix environments, I love my standard set of tools.  Also being new to OS X, I was a little disappointed to see that there was no wget installed by default.  Sure there’s curl but that’s a whole set of new flags to use and my memory is limited! Here’s a

When booting iBoot on your hackintosh, if you encounter the following problem: ebios read error: device timeout You may need to remove all external USB drives/memory sticks and reboot

Having recently having build a hackintosh, I found I received the following error when trying to upgrade to Lion: lion upgrade an error occurred while preparing the installation Here’s the solution: 1. A file will appear “Install Mac OS X Lion”. 2. Right click the file, and click on “Show Contents”. 3. Go inside the

If you’re encountering the error “Undefined reference to getaddrinfo()” he’s how to solve the problem.  It seems the winsock examples on the MSDN site are very much intended for use with Visual C and therefore you may have to do a few additional things to get everything working correctly.   Firstly you’ll need to add

If you’re trying to get SDL_Image to work correctly and are getting the following error: undefined reference to `IMG_Load` Here’s how to fix it: Go to your compiler link options, in code and add -lSDL_image &nbsp

After spending way too much time attempting to get the “Festival” speech synthesizer working on Linux without getting the dreaded “can’t open /dev/dsp” error message, I’ve finally found the solution. Just on a side note, the Arch Linux help page for Festival, suggests a fix that uses the “aplay” application, this is something which no longer

One of the first things I do when setting up a new Linux box is get my fonts sorted out, for obvious copyright reasons, the Microsoft fonts package isn’t shipped with Linux distributions.  The main reason for having Microsoft fonts on a Linux machine will be so that web pages that are designed for them

Having recently installed iOS5 on my iPhone 4, I was in a position where I had to reboot my iPhone whilst out and about.  Sadly at the time of writing this there’s only a tethered jailbreak for iOS5 for the iPhone 4. What this means is that I have to have the iPhone connected to

Having setup a new installation of Arch Linux, I worked my way through getting X setup and then decided to go with xfce4 as my window manager. After launching xfce with the “startxfce4″ command, all I could see was a flickering mouse background with a broken panel in the top left corner. After much Googling

Here’s a quick snippet to show you how to you login to your boxes through ssh without using a password.  Of course there’s reasons why you would and wouldn’t want to do this although that’s something for another article. First log in on A as user a and generate a pair of authentication keys. Do