I need to use a dark theme in KDE because I spend so much time on the computer that my eyes get tired of looking at whiteness all the time. I use a very dark theme to minimize the strain…
AVD Manager in Eclipse on Ubuntu won’t start device due to double slash error
I have a weird error that happens to me every time I rebuild my machine; when I open Eclipse and attempt to start up AVD Manager, I get an error when I hit “start” for the Android 4.1 virtual device.…
Kubuntu 12.10 Released (Tarah does a dance and installs on four different boxes)
I am more excited than usual for the release of Quantal Quetzal. Holy CRAP. Just got done installing 12.10 on my Lenovo Z570; this is the first time in years that I haven’t had to log back in and reflag…
Lenovo Z570 phy0 hard blocked solution
If you’ve had issues with wireless being grayed out and you’re unable to enable it on your Lenovo Z570 or any other box, there is a simple solution. You must reset your bios. There’s an oddity in the bios for…
How to read from the Assets folder in an Eclipse Android application
Seeing errors like these? java.io.FileNotFoundException at android.content.res.AssetManager.openAsset(Native Method) at android.content.res.AssetManager.open(AssetManager.java:315) at android.content.res.AssetManager.open(AssetManager.java:289) The problem is that Eclipse isn’t finding your file, because you may not be using AssetManager to retrieve plain-text files from the assets folder. Here’s how to fix…
Which JSON library should I use in my Android and Java projects?
JSON.org is where you start; this is the prepackaged JSON found in Oracle and Open Java Development Kits. The home page is a useful resource to see all the different JSON libraries out there for all different languages. GSON is…
Apache Virtual Hosts with SNI and SSL on Ubuntu 12.04 in Rackspace
Here’s a little howto: I was having the devil of a time earlier today configuring an SSL cert for a site Lorraine and I are working on right now. My problem is that I’ve never configured an SSL cert before,…
How To Build A Ruby Server With RVM On Kubuntu 12.10
So I’m building a Ruby server right now for the first time. I’m going to list out here the resources I used as a skilled web dev to get this up and running right away. These links do assume that…
Vegan Tab with Viewsonic gTablet
I’ve obviously been busy for the last month, and the posts concerning the LadyCoders Kickstarter will appear on the ladycoders.com site. I’d really rather get back to the fun of reviewing a hardware/OS combo. About three weeks ago, I got…
How to get the microphone working in Skype with Kubuntu 12.04 (and likely with previous versions)
I have had this problem perpetually since starting to use Skype. I had to boot into my Windows partition for this single task in order to have conference calls via Skype. I finally put together a howto and a script…