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Oh yes, the infamous class path and classdef exceptions – drive me nuts! So I thought it would be nice to have a quick post on the commands you can…

This is a lovely little command which allows you to run commands in the linux terminal after you have exited. This is useful to keep services running in Linux without…

So for quite some time I’ve been wondering how to do this, and decided its now time ? The perfect plugin for changing the category/taxonomy order for Classipress / WordPress…

There are a good number of Bluetooth JSR82 implementations out there. Some cross-platform, others just for linux. The most common one found for Windows is Bluecove. Now this works nicely,…

So quite an interesting little problem, is that when you insert μ from insert -> special character -> symbols in Lyx, it won’t allow you to produce a pdf – it…

When working with Bluetooth and Java on Linux there are a couple of things to take note of: [box] Ensure that the protocol stack is installed – BlueZ is a…

So after fiddling a bit , I found that the netbeans installed by default on Ubuntu 12.04 is version 7.1 – Now this is fine, but for some reason I…

After struggling with this for quite some time (why, im not sure :), I finally was able to create a remote repo (on bitbucket), and then create a local repo…

Although LibreOffice Calc at this stage doesn’t support exporting graphs or charts as images (currently only as pdf), you are still able to get this right. Here’s how: Copy your…

For some strange reason there are a whole bunch of really unhelpful guides on how to increase the size of a virtualbox vdi image. Some of the guides use the…