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.

Fix “Unexpected clusters per mft record (-127)”

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

I encountered this error yesterday after trying to fix some Windows bootloader issues in Ubuntu with ms-sys. Needless to say, I just created more issues and eventually couldn’t even mount my Windows partition from Ubuntu, as this would happen: # mount -t ntfs-3g -o force /dev/sda1 /mnt/win Unexpected clusters per mft record (-127). Failed to [...]

Samsung LN32A450, nVidia Drivers, and Ubuntu

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

I just recently purchased a Samsung LN32A450 television and wanted to use it as a monitor. I figured that it shouldn’t be too hard, just plug in my computer to it’s VGA port and then change the resolution. But, when are new things ever easy? To make a long story short, I had to generate [...]