Memeo backup = slow
I replaced a defective Seagate GoFlex portable hard drive a few days ago and the new one that Seagate sent me had Memeo backup software on it. I decided to give it a whirl. I got it configured, but judging from how long it...
Category: General
Fix for oh-my-zsh git-svn prompt slowness
I was dying a slow death from the slowness of my zsh prompt when using oh-my-zsh's git plugin and a repository managed by git-svn. I finally decided to do something about it today. I tracked the slowness down to the...
Installing GNOME in FreeBSD 9
I pretty much followed these instructions, but one extra step was required. The problem that I was having was that the system kept running out of file descriptors and becoming unusable. After a little digging around with fstat...
Fixing VMware guestOS setting after the fact
I set up an OpenIndiana vm in VMware Fusion (see earlier post) but while setting it up, I accidentally selected "Other" for the guest OS type instead of "Solaris". As a result, later on when I wanted to install VMware Tools, it...
Fix missing math.h in OpenIndiana
Was trying to build Python on OpenIndiana b151A (for the purpose of testing out a DTrace patch; see earlier post) and got: math.h: No such file or directory The fix: sudo pkg install header-math Thanks, swinful!...