NYC Skate Resources
Here are some inline-skating resources local to NYC.
Changing the Steam icon in Ubuntu 16.04
The official tray icon for Steam looks good with Ubuntu’s Ambiance theme, however, it doesn’t adjust its color when you change to the Radiance theme.
Creating Launcher Icons in Ubuntu (14.04)
Sometimes programs you want to install in Linux come as nicely packaged deb files, making them easy to install. Other times programs come as a folder with a shell script *.sh inside that you are supposed to run through the command line. This can be annoying, and some of us want to create a launcher icon so that we can search for it in the dashboard or add it to the sidebar.
How to Compile MPLABX Projects from the Command Line
Within the past couple of years, Microchip has released MPLABX, a Netbeans based IDE for their microcontrollers. The IDE works great and makes it easy to develop and build your projects; however, building releases locally on developer machines is not the ideal way to be releasing software. Continuous Integration (CI) and build servers solve this […]
How to Change Back to the Keyboard on the Samsung Note 10.1
I couldn't find any way to switch back to the regular keyboard. It was hard to find a solution when I Googled for it, so I figured I would put it here to help out anyone else having issues.
How to Change the Firefox Button Color and Text
Firefox seems to change how the settings for the Firefox button work with every release, meaning that most of the tutorials explaining how to do this are either broken or buggy. Here is another tutorial on how to change the color of the Firefox button, but this time I am going to keep the article […]
Negative Resistance
This tutorial is going to cover the topic of negative resistance. At first, it might seem like a strange idea that you could have a current flowing in the opposite direction of an applied voltage; but, hopefully by the end of this tutorial you will have a better intuitive understanding of what a negative resistance […]
How to Send a UDP Packet in Python
Sending either a TCP or UDP packet onto a network is a very easy thing to do using Python, but takes a little bit of knowledge about networking for it to make sense. In this tutorial I am going to give the most bare-bones and simplest possible way to send a packet of data over a network using UDP.
Setting Default Properties for the MathJax Module for Drupal
This is going to be a quick tutorial on how to set default properties and options for the MathJax Module for Drupal.
Configuring Thunderbird to Work and Play Nice with GMail
This tutorial is going to explain how to configure Thunderbird 3 to work the best with GMail.