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How to delete a GPT protected partition in Windows

May 5th, 2010

I accidentally formatted my external harddisk in OSX. Since I wanted this disk to be NTFS I needed it to be formatted in Windows. When I opened up disk management I was unable to format the harddisk because it had a GPT protected partition on it.

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How to remove the Apple logo watermark from iDVD menu

April 7th, 2010

I was quite annoyed by the Apple logo watermark on every DVD menu I made with iDVD. It turned out that removing is was suprisely simple.

Apple logo in iDvd menu

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Fixing mysqldump error: access denied for … when using LOCK TABLES

April 5th, 2010

I use the tool mysqldump to backup my databases today I wanted to backup a database but the following error occured (The command backups the database to the gzipped mydb.sql.gz file):

$ mysqldump -uuser -ppassword -hlocalhost mydb | gzip –best -c -f > /root/backups/db/mydb.sql.gz
mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user ‘user’@'localhost’ to database ‘database’ when using LOCK TABLES

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OSX HP Color LaserJet CM1312 MFP duplex printing

December 17th, 2009

When I started to use my HP Color LaserJet CM1312 MFP it turned out that manual duplex printing was not exactly working. Page 1 had page 7 on the back etc. The problem was that the printer prints its pages in opposite direction, starting with the last page. I spend lots of time seaching for a solution. I found this website, which descibes how to change your printer driver in order to print from 1 to n. Here are the steps you need to do…

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Practising pentatonic scales on guitar

November 25th, 2009

Quite some time I am playing the guitar. I have an acoustic and electric one (a black Ibanez EXR-170 for those interested). A friend of mine recommended practicing pentatonic scales. I looked up some link and started practising, this improved my guitar solo skills for sure. Here are the links I found:

Overview of the pentatonic scales:

Backing music which can be used to practise solos

Video Tutorial

Ibanez EXR-170

Ibanez EXR-170

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Enable JSLint Javascript source code validation in Aptana

October 18th, 2009

You might know Aptana, which is a free, on Eclipse based Javascript IDE. Aptana has several nice features like autocompletion and code formatting. You might know Lint as well. Lint is a tool which checks your code from well known coding errors which do not necessarily cause weird program behaviour. It turned out there is JSLint as well, which is Lint for Javascript. The nice thing is that Aptana natively supports JSLint code verification. Out of the box Aptana uses the Mozilla Javascript Validator.

In order to change your validator launch Aptana and click Window -> Preferences. Then goto Aptana -> Editors -> Javascript -> Validation. Now check the JSLint checkbox. Click [Apply] and you are good to go. You might want to uncheck the Mozilla Javascript checkbox.

Aptana preferences window

Aptana preferences window

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List

August 27th, 2009

If you are wondering about whether your software will run on the new OSX Snow Leopard this is definitely a site to check out. Wikidot listed lots of OSX software and the how they run on Snow Leopard.

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How to change the timezone in Ubuntu

July 14th, 2009

After installing Xubuntu in VMWare I noticed that it had the wrong timezone set up. In order to change the timezone execute (as root) the following:

# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

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Fold a t-shirt from a bill

July 5th, 2009

Yesterday, we went to the birthday of a friend of mine. As a present he asked everyone for money so he could buy something expensive. On the internet I found this video showing how to fold a t-shirt from a bill. Quite original to give ;)

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folded shirt

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Samsung NC10 hardcase

March 11th, 2009

Last week I received my new Samsung NC10 hardcase. The softcase that came with the laptop did not seem to be that solid as expected which made me order another one. The Dutch website koopje.nl had a nice offer. For only 11,75 EUR they provided a nice looking case with foam which adopts the shape of the netbook.

Brand: Elecom
Type: 8.9″ Zeroshock III Notebook inner bag

Outside

Outside

Inside

Inside

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