December 1st, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | 2 Comments
As part of my work at the Center for Research Libraries, I am investigating different Constituent Resource Management (CRM) systems. One of the options is CiviCRM, a popular FLOSS CRM. As CRL is, in large part, a membership organization, I wanted to see if it was possible to represent the basic information that we keep [...]
March 3rd, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments
There are some interesting backup tools for system backups (Time Machine) but I want to just be able to copy and verify a directory (and its children). I’ve heard that the commercial product Retrospect provides copy and verify functionality, but I’m cheap.
This is the method that I used. I’d be interested on hearing feedback about [...]
February 27th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments
I got a new MacBook from work and need to migrate files from my old Dell notebook running Xubuntu Linux. Luckily, I had recovered a drive from a bricked machine that was donated to pages that I could use to transfer the files.
I don’t like the Fat32 file system, so I formatted the external drive [...]
September 22nd, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments
I’m running debian lenny/sid with kernel 2.6.26-1 on my workstation and for a while, my audio hasn’t been working in most applications (I was most annoyed by the lack of sound in flash), though it has been working in amarok. I was getting error messages like this when trying to do audio playback. These particular [...]
May 22nd, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments
Having a job at the university means that I have access to hardware that I can’t afford to buy for myself. My coworker was getting a new video card for his workstation and they just ordered me one too. The card is an Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS PCI Express card manufactured by Chaintech.
Downloading the Driver
I [...]
March 15th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments
Chiara’s sewing machine is broken. The needle seems to collide with the hook. It looks like the timing and hopefully the internet can save the day on this one. It costs $60 to repair a sewing machine and I’m sure not much more to buy a new one.
Link to sewusa.com page on adjusting timing.
March 11th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments
I was leant a Dell Latitude D810 that has a Synaptics touchpad. Eventually, I had to admit that the tap-to-click setting was a little to sensitive and kind of annoying (most frequently, I accidently clicked things in my bookmarks toolbar in Firefox). I found that I could disable the tap-to-click feature by adding the line:
 Option  [...]
March 11th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments
Search and Replace in Multiple Files
perl -pi -w -e ’s/search/replace/g;’ *.php
from How to do a search and replace over multiple files
February 21st, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments
Scroll Up/Down: Page Up/Page Down keys
September 26th, 2007 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments
Tim says to check out Kaati rolls while I’m traveling.
This wiki page has info on how to configure e-mail integration in eventum which Boxcar uses to handle tech trouble tickets. I wanted to turn off auto issue creation because we get a lot of e-mails that don’t neccessarily want to become issues and [...]