September 1st, 2010 by rvdavid No comments »
Hi everyone, this is just a quick how-to on handling the Ubuntu Maverick/Gnome Login Keyring issue which occurs when you change your user password.
The issue: You’ve decided to change your password for whatever reason and suddenly you’re presented with the following message whenever you launch an application you have instructed to “remember” your password.
Enter password to unlock your login keyring
The password you use to log in to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring.
This is how you fix it:
» Read more: Fixing Gnome keyring / Login Keyring: “Enter Password to Unlock” issue
June 23rd, 2010 by rvdavid No comments »
I’ve been using Ubuntu for a while now and something that bugged me a lot was the crappy screen resolution whenever I had to go and use my virtual terminals (TTY).
In previous versions of ubuntu which used grub 1, setting up the resolution for tty was done by simply using the vga=??? boot option. In grub 2 however, this is not so easy.
I remember when it first came out. I was somewhat exasperated by the fact that I had _just_ become comfortable f*cking with grub’s menu.lst and now I had to learn how to use grub 2 – which had some new convention for editing menu items let alone setting up the resolution.
Anyway, there’s really nothing to it. I had to do a lot of digging around and some experimentation, but in the end, as with all things linux it was “easy” when I finally found out how. » Read more: Setting TTY / Virtual Consoles resolution with Grub 2 in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
June 18th, 2010 by rvdavid 2 comments » Today was an absolute sh*t fight. Starting from an entire morning where after I experienced several crashes with Visual Studio Express, that I thought I’d try the full version.
To do this though, I had to expand my VMWare virtual disk. So a quick:
vmware-vdiskmanager -x 45GB windevxp.vmdk
… and my virtual disk is now 45GBs! – I then had to resize the windows partition. I’ll post more on this straight after this post.
So with that done, I’m set to install Visual Studio, I thought yeah it should take about 5 – 10 miuntes…
BOY WAS I WRONG!
The installation took like 2 – 3 hours at least, so there’s a large chunk of my day gone. (Great… F*CK!) At this point though, I didn’t care anymore, I was bitter about the amount of work I’ve lost and the disruption caused by stupid Visual Studio Express randomly crashing! I just wanted the whole thing to be installed and start coding again.
» Read more: Just when I needed it the most, my weapon of rapid web development goes nuts!
June 16th, 2010 by rvdavid No comments » Well, my current projects at work are a far cry from last year’s mission critical projects where I was on the edge of my seat, tapping my feet to the sound of inaudible rhythm, staring at the screen with unblinking eyes, gritting my teeth as I developed applications in an almost mechanical manner.
Now, I find myself carving up new designs for ancient projects and looking at the code base, I’m honestly surprised that it has managed to not only run, but make bank for the company it belonged to all these years. Caching really does save your ass, so does having a dedicated server you can pump hardware into.
In the past few weeks, I’ve carved up designs, chased several phantom display bugs (which ended up being typos – you would’ve known if you had been keeping up with my tweets) and went back to coding ASP like it was 1999.
Yes you read right, ASP! I’m currently trapped in legacy code world… negotiating screen real estate and dealing with browser laws and rules that change ever so slightly for each different version of browser software!
» Read more: Carving up designs & Programming like it’s 1999
May 21st, 2010 by rvdavid 4 comments » Here’s a quick SVN trick I use for managing my svn:ignore and svn:externals properties for my projects.
One of the first things I do for newly checked out projects is to add a externals.txt and ignore.txt files. Then I just populate these with the property values I require for the project.
I know, it’s a no brainer when you think about it right?
The thing is, I didn’t think of doing it until the past few projects and actually had to rely on ide integrated / gui tools to do it prior to this year. I came across a couple of examples and did it a couple of times in a rush without noting it down, but thought I’d make a post about it on my blog so that I have somehwere easy to find.
» Read more: Subversion Tip: Managing SVN Properties with text files
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