My grandfather was an amateur singer and songwriter. He passed away many years ago, leaving the few old cassette tapes my mother owns the only recordings of his performances in existence.
Over the Christmas holiday, I convinced my mother to let me take these precious keepsakes and make digital copies.
I am very grateful to [...]
I recently spotted this handy little tip at blogstorm.co.uk.
Ever wanted to edit the text of a web page to create an annotated screenshot or mockup? Simply paste this line of code into your browser’s location bar, and voila, the page text can be edited:
javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true’; document.designMode=’on’; void 0
No, you it doesn’t enable you [...]
USA Today reports that the US Census Bureau has released population estimates for 2008.
Since 2000, the fastest-growing states in the US have been Utah, Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, and Colorado.
Other Notes:
The only two states to lose population were Michigan and Rhode Island. Michigan’s population declined 0.5 percent (46,000), while Rhode Island’s fell 0.2 percent (2,000).
California [...]
Got this error when running updatedb from a Red Had Linux command prompt:
fatal error: updatedb: create_db(): chdir: No such file or directory
The problem:
[root@iberia george]# fatal error: updatedb: create_db(): chdir: No such file or directory
As you can see, I’m running as root, so this shouldn’t be a permissions problem. Probably a file lock or corrupt [...]
