The Great Conjunction of 2020

Tonight I took a picture of the great conjunction. It is a conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn. The last time these planets were closer than today was in 1623-07-17. The next time will be 2080-03-15. In the picture, you can see Jupiter (the bright planet on the left), its four moons Callisto, Io, …

ServiceStack Request Filter to Require Secure Connection

This code snippet provides a Request Filter to make sure your ServiceStack services are being called via HTTPS. If not, it returns a 403 code. public class SecureRequestFilterAttribute : Attribute, IHasRequestFilter { public IHasRequestFilte...

Comcast remote not working with the cable box

Today we went to exchange our Comcast remote controller. The new one was supposed to "just work" with the Comcast cable box. But it didn't. We followed the instructions on the Comcast web site (removing the batteries and putting them back in, etc)...

Ubuntu libjpeg.(a|so) not found

I recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit on my old laptop. I wanted to get PHP + nginx going, so I was following this page: http://bestsiteinthemultiverse.com/2011/01/installing-nginx-with-php-fpm-on-u... After installing nginx, I tried to install...

Hamachi

Recently my friends and I bought a copy of Age of Empires III: Complete Collection for $0.10. That's right: 10 cents! (Thanks SlickDeals!) But we ran into problems trying to connect to each other. We each could log onto the EOS network and join ot...

How to turn off Ubuntu Server laptop screen

I set my old Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop* to run on Ubuntu Server. Everything was running fine except one problem. The OS would go into screen saver mode, but the screen would never turn off. After some searching I found this [http://ubuntuforums.or...

VirtualBox – WiFi Limited Access

Yesterday I tried connecting to a new WiFi network. I entered the password and connected to the router fine. But I got this message:Limited Access IPv4 Connectivity: No network accessIPv6 Connectivity: No network accessMedia State: EnabledThis is ...

SSH to VirtualBox Guest OS

My host OS is Windows 7 Home Premium. I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.04 on VirtualBox. This is how I set it up so I can SSH into the guest OS. The main thing is to modify VirtualBox to forward packets from the host to the guest. On a Windows machine...

name.com got back to me

I read a few stories on the internet where somebody got some bad experience with some company and blogged about it. Then said company responded. I never thought it would happen to me. I was wrong. In my previous post, I wrote about my experience w...

name.com no response

Last time I wrote about my switch from GoDaddy to name.com. The process wasn't as smooth as I wanted it to be. Though it wasn't so bad. The issue was on name.com's side, but GoDaddy's support was actually pretty good and helped me out. Recently I ...