Mmm, software

Apparently, fuck Windows 8. So says everybody. Including Microsoft. That's why at some point you're going to have to retarget your W...

As it turns out, MSBuild has more than a few quirks when being invoked through TFS compared to being invoked through a command line or from ...

Code signing is a giant pain in the butt. You have to : Obtain the certificate for signing the code by: buying the certificate from an ...

I began converting an existing Windows Store App to using the Prism Framework provided by Microsoft. However, I'm running into the follo...

As you may or may not be aware, there are multiple types of applications that can be created for Windows 8: Windows store apps, which use...

I really hate Windows 8. I think the majority of the applications that have been written for it are complete pieces of shit, for the followi...

There are a number of reasons why an SSH server may fail to allow a client to connect. Many aren't readily apparent, even from tailing s...

I recently had an apache2 server go down while I was using it. I still don't know what caused it, but I do know how I fixed it, thanks t...

It finally hit me today as I was reading over this article , and it should have hit me sooner. The article mentions that in order to get pas...

I've recently been trying to use Python on the BeagleBone Black, for a number of reasons: I want to learn a new language which could ...

After I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10, I inexplicably started getting errors in a build that had been perfect for a very long time. It turned out...

I recently setup a new install of Ubuntu 13.10 for a server and found that a lot of my login times were slow when remotely logging in (and n...

Due to the needs of our company, we're developing an in-house cape for the BeagleBone Black to integrate it with our equipment. Yes, the...

I recently went to use a BeagleBone Black board on which I'd never booted from the eMMC before (that I could recall) and had been instea...

In my ongoing quest to make my builds less complex and faster, I've been going through my Makefiles and trying to learn as much as possi...

NTP is used to synchronized time between machines. You can read the Ubuntu HOWTO here .

I recently had need to redo an old server that had been running an ancient Gentoo installation for which there was no longer a software upgr...

So, further into my quest to build a control system with the Raspberry Pi, I've been looking around at ways to have simple input from th...

I've recently purchased several Raspberry Pi boards so that I could use them with the RasPlex distribution to run Plex clients and conne...

The Windows SDK comes with a built-in tool for performing this conversion, the details of which you can find here . The command you'll n...