It’s not quite as easy to get up and running with Jekyll as the Quick Start Guide makes it sound. But it’s not super difficult either – if explained from one human to another. Here’s how I got Jekyll working on a vanilla CentOS 7 instance. Installing some necessary packages Before we can install Jekyll … Read more
I was racking my brains over how to mount an SD card formatted with anything other than FAT32 on my Android device. Jelly Bean and Kit Kat automatically mount FAT32 partitions, but they seem to ignore native Linux file systems – which Android clearly understands. Apparently there’s a $1.54 app on the Play Store that … Read more
I’ve just installed a LAMP stack on my Nook Tablet using Debian. However I’ve been using CentOS since 2008 and I’m so used to how things are done there that it was a bit of a culture shock doing relatively simple things “on the other side”. It’s like a country whose language you don’t speak … Read more
Usually the top command shows you how long a Linux system is up and running – but sadly not on OS X, or Darwin more specifically. There is however a command line tool with the descriptive name uptime which will tell you how long your Mac has been running, precisely the line that’s missing from … Read more