Ryan Rampersad

Update Ubuntu via Terminal

Ryan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:26:00 +0000

I work on my ubuntu server remotely, so I’m never around to update it in person. Keeping up with updates is easy to do via the terminal though. Assuming you’re either locally doing this on your server or already remotely connected to your server via ssh, you’ll need to run these two lines: sudo apt-get [...] Related posts:

How to install libmysqlclient15off on Ubuntu 10.04

Ryan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:32:22 +0000

Since I wanted to tinker with APE, I needed a special package for it, libmysqlclient15off. This sounds easy and all, and it normally is. You think something like an apt-get install libmysqlclient15off would work, but it didn’t. sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15off Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Package libmysqlclient15off is [...] Related posts:

The Great iPhone Price

Ryan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:37:52 +0000

I’m not like every other kid: I didn’t have a cell phone until I was 17. Not because I was restricted, it was mostly because I never needed it and I was dead cheap. After I started working however it became readily apparent that I needed a cell phone. My first choice was the brand [...] Related posts:

My Top 5 AP Computer Science Tips

Ryan — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:50:29 +0000

I’ve taken three years of computer classes at my highschool. One of them was not programming related, but was offering more of a collective computer experience, like getting familiar with OSX shortcuts, working with photoshop and designing web pages (with technology from the early 2000′s). My first class was of course Introduction to Java. It [...] Related posts:

Ubuntu Username/Password On Live CD

Ryan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:28:41 +0000

I was installing Ubuntu 10.04 on my Google Laptop tonight. I wanted to test out the wireless access first before I went ahead with the installation, so I run it as a live cd first. The broadcom card inside didn’t have a open source driver, but there was a properietry driver available, so I went [...] Related posts:

Install Firefox 4 Beta 1 on Ubuntu 10.04

Ryan — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:47:53 +0000

Since Firefox 4 Beta 1 launched, I wanted to test it where ever I could. I’ve tested it on Windows and it works great. Mozilla also put a build for Ubuntu, but there is no installer, of course. After Googling around for a while, I came across an excellent article that described exactly how to [...] Related posts:

On English Analysis – With A Poem

Ryan — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:37:52 +0000

Even in the middle of ninth grade in 2008, I had trouble dealing with the English Analysis that was asked of me in English 9 IB. There are so many aspects of those classes of which I dislike, such as their always assuming nature that things mean something they explicitly do not, their obsession with [...] Related posts:

Keeping Hybrid Original Relevant

Ryan — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:09:11 +0000

I love hybrid theme. I suck at designing so anything that makes it kinda easy to make this blog look halfway decent is great. It’s hard though to keep this old child-theme relevant though. The updates to it are few (although that’s not really a problem) and it seems like it’s become stale. That stale [...] Related posts:

Google Chrome 5 Media Global Variable

Ryan — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:23:39 +0000

Axel posted some great information in the MooTools User google group a while ago, sharing his expierence with Chrome 5. Recently, I ran into this ver problem and The problem was that a global variable defined by chrome itself. It was a global read-only variable, it was special. My plugin could not override it, so [...] Related posts:

Symlink a Folder in Ubuntu

Ryan — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:09:43 +0000

I often forget the syntax for making symlinks in Ubuntu, even though they are incredibly useful. To stop myself from forgetting and help everyone else out, I’ll make a quick mention of it here. ln -s target link_name From wikipedia’s article on Symbolic Links, it is explained that the target should point to the folder [...] Related posts: