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Online China Resources
I’m mostly posting this for my own future reference, but if you’d like to get a feeling for the Chinese expat experience, or how to do business in China in general, chinageeks.org has an awesome collection of blogs about China. … Continue reading
Recovering a Terastation Live From Scratch
I recently ordered a Buffalo Terastation Live from eCost for around $260, which seemed like a pretty darn good deal. Of course, it was ‘Factory Reconditioned’, whatever that meant… …Turns out that means it arrives in a plain brown box, … Continue reading
Fixing Delete and Backspace in OS X Terminal
I’m constantly having trouble with getting the backspace and delete keys to work properly in OS X. Whenever it works right on the Mac, one or the other key is broken when I Â SSH to a Linux or FreeBSD box. … Continue reading
Installing Lotus Notes 8 on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
Ubuntu isn’t a supported platform for installing Lotus Notes 8, but the installation is surprisingly easy, once you know a few tricks. Before you begin, make sure you have the proper fonts by installing the “ttf-xfree86-nonfree” package: sudo apt-get install … Continue reading
Are your arrows keys not working in less and vi?
I’ve had this problem sporadically with iTerm on my Mac, and I seem to remember this happening recently on my Linux machines as well. If you have this problem, try this: $ export TERM=linux If this works, on a Mac … Continue reading