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I forgot the password to my Macbook Pro and it turns out that there aren’t very many short guides on this. However, it turns out that it is very easy to reset the password on a Macbook. Step 1 – Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold … Read more

This is the settings that worked for me when running gource xvfb-run -a -s “-screen 0 1280x720x24” gource -s 0.4 -p 0.01 -1280×720  –auto-skip-seconds .4 –multi-sampling –stop-at-end –highlight-users –hide mouse,progress,filenames,dirnames –file-idle-time 0 –background-colour 111111 –font-size 20 –title “Omlet Lib 4_1” –output-ppm-stream – –output-framerate 60 | avconv -y -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i – … Read more

Optipng is in the Ubuntu repositories but is you want an up to date version then it can be worth installing Optipng from source. This is essentially a script but you can use the commands on there own if you want.

If you have just installed Postfix or Sendmail it can be helpful to test if everything is configured correctly. Often you want to do this from the commandline without having to install an entire email client. You can do this by installing a few simple command line mail utilities. Then pipe a message to the … Read more

I just tried to use the Ansible htpasswd and it said: You just need to check that python-passlib is installed like so:

It’s a real pain to change the bitrate of Sound Juicer to actually make the MP3 or Ogg files good quality. For some reason the default quality is terrible and the developers have removed the menu which allows you to change the bitrate. Frankly, this makes Sound Juicer useless as a ripping tool and I … Read more

I’m interested to see how well it works.

You need to set the permissions on the wp-content so that your webserver can write: Then set the following configuration the your wp-config.php