Paul Hartman

I could not access the network in a guest VM using bridged networking. To fix I had to set the following in iptables: # iptables -I FORWARD...

If your sound stops working in linux, you may see errors about being unable to connect to ALSA, or mplayer might say "Audio device got ...

To easily view which packages were installed from which overlay, using app-portage/eix: eix --installed-in-overlay <optional overlay nam...

Starting around SSMS 18.x, Microsoft changed the way credentials were stored. This caused any saved passwords from previous versions to stop...

If it seems like mscorsvw.exe is running forever, you can use this script from the official .NET github repo to force ngen to process the q...

Firefox blocks certain clipboard events by default. This breaks some Google Docs functionality. To reenable it, go to about:config and set ...

Portage typically unmerges all but the newest kernel sources, while I'd prefer to leave the sources to the running kernel and backup ker...

Every recordable CD and DVD actually has a little bit of data on the blank disc. On CDs this is called the ATIP (Absolute Time in Pregroove)...

In Microsoft SQL Server 2008+ there is a DATE type, and getting just the date portion of a DATETIME is as easy as a cast or convert to DATE....

To easily straighten a crooked scan or photo in GIMP, don't bother with manual rotation and rulers. Just use the Measure tool (Shift-M) ...

On factory-pressed CDs (and some DVDs), on the shiny side of the disc near the center spindle ring there is usually text, known as the matr...