This is one of those posts as much for my own reference as anything else, and if it helps others, then bonus. I installed MongoDB on my old Fedora server just now, and while it was actually pretty straightforward to do, I figured I’d document the steps. The first thing to remember is that there…
In this post, I’d like to point out something I learned while working following yesterday’s post. In my haste to find the JUnit equivalent of MS Moles, I didn’t stop to think about what I was doing. So, as I expanded on yesterday’s effort, I realized that my mocking of Runtime.getRuntime() didn’t seem to be…
This morning, I was adding a playpen I’d created of an enormous project to subversion. In my playpen, I was only editing a handful of .cs files, but I wanted to add all .cs files to my little repository. What I didn’t want to add were, obviously, outputs of the project, but other stuff that…
So, as I blogged previously, I’ve been re-appropriating some old PCs and sticking Ubuntu 11.10 on them. I had one doing exactly what I wanted it to do in the context of my home automation network with one small but annoying exception. Whenever I would play music through headphones or speakers, there would be a…
Previously, I posted about odyssey to get belkin wireless dongles working with Ubuntu. Actually, the previous post was tame compared to what I’ve hacked together with these things over the years, including getting them to work on Damn Small Linux where I had to ferret out the text for the entire wpa_supplicant configuration using kernel…
