Archive for the 'Planet COSI' Category

Samsung LN32A450 HDMI Calibration Failure

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

If your LN32A450 ever reports an HDMI calibration failure, here are the steps to fix it when hooked up to a computer via an HDMI port: Download an 8×8 checkerboard patter, such as this one. Make sure your computer’s resolution is set to 1360×768; its native resolution. View the image in full screen (so that [...]

Basic Emacs Tutorial

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

In my last post, I wrote about how I had to write a guide to using a piece of software for a class. Well, I had to do another one, but this time it was individually rather than in a group. So, I wrote a guide on how to do some basic tasks in emacs. [...]

Fedora 10, Subversion, and WebSVN

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Justin and I recently wrote a guide to installing Subversion for a class that we’re taking. It’s a pretty simple process and we’ve tested it twice now, but if you try it and something it unclear/doesn’t work, let us know.

Firefox, Ubuntu, and Spell Checking

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

I just noticed that my version of Firefox 3.0.8 running in Ubuntu 8.10 had en_AU as it’s default spell checking dictionary. Is this true for anyone else? The only reason I noticed this was because Firefox was marking words such as “organization” and “enrollment” as being spelled wrong. If anyone wants to look at their [...]