Sometime a month or two ago, sending email to my family stopped working. My emails vanished into the void and were never heard from again.
I figured my SMTP was set up incorrectly so no big deal, I used another (gmail etc.). Recently I got around to looking in my logs and […]

In Linux when I use SSH I usually pass the host and port and username on the command line and then type the password when prompted. (In those rare cases I don’t use certificates to log in without a password.) In Windows, PuTTY makes you pick a host and port and then prompts […]

:perldo s/something/other/
E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version
In spite of my previous actions which I thought led to a successfully non-gimped Vim install, it turns out that I actually ended up getting rubydo to work AT THE EXPENSE of perldo.
Apparently what I actually needed was vim-full. Installing vim-ruby and […]

I should share the troubleshooting experience I had tonight.
Problem: The center speaker doesn’t work in a 5.1 channel speaker system.
Solution:
1. Run speaker-test -c6. Only front left and front right work.
2. Look up how to run speaker-test correctly.
3. Run speaker-test -dsurround51 -c6. Only front and rear left and right work. No center sound.
4. […]

I may have had the stylesheet for this site linking from localhost for the past couple days. And I couldn’t tell because I hadn’t looked at it from anywhere but home until now. Oops.