There are about 30 working desktops and laptops in my house, ranging from 1993 to present, but I think the coolest computer I have is my parents’ old IBM ThinkPad 240. One of the smallest ThinkPads ever made back in 1999, this is a vintage ThinkPad. It’s still operational today […]
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been expanding my two-screen setups into three-screen setups — a laptop plus two external monitors. Because I thought I only had one display port (HDMI), I went searching for USB display adapters. (I just realized today that my ThinkPad T470 has a USB-C / […]
I spent a few hours troubleshooting a problem with Thin when I upgraded from Redmine 2.5 to Redmine 3.0 on a Debian Wheezy server. I found a solution that’s worked for me. I’m not confident enough with Ruby and this setup to make a HowTo on the Redmine wiki, but […]
My website was recently migrated to a new server, and since then I haven’t been able to automatically upgrade WordPress plugins via FTP. Tonight I chased down the error. I could login via FTP from the command line, but WordPress kept telling me I had the wrong username/password. I found […]