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How to install CentOS 6 on a Samsung NC10

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Today was a rather exciting day for me: I’ve successfully turned my aging Samsung NC10 Netbook into an internal server in our office.

I bought the little guy in 2009 and he’s been my trusty companion on many jobs before I got an iPad. He still works fine, even though Windows XP was getting weird of late – and admittedly I hadn’t even turned him on in over 8 months.

Now my trusty pal is running CentOS 6.4 while sitting quietly in a corner next to the printer, serving as an internal Linux server. This is great for testing and automated backups – and in the same spirit as playing with a Raspberry Pi (in a much neater battery powered package).

Refreshing the NC10 wasn’t a picnic though, and some of the steps are rather involved. Here are my notes, in case I either have to do it again or you want to follow along.

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How to create an NSDate object

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The easiest way to create an NSDate object is to create “right now” with our convenience method date: NSDate *myDate = [NSDate date]; But if you want to create a date object with a date such as your birthday it gets a little bit trickier, and – more importantly – much less obvious. To do […]

How to display the full month from an NSDate (such as “February”)

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There was me thinking I’d have to whip out NSDateComponents and NSCalendar – but my mind works too complicated at times. All we need to do this is our good friend the NSDateFormatter and the Unicode Date Format MMMM – let’s check it out: // create today’s date NSDate *myDate = [NSDate date]; // create […]

How to create Linkshare Affiliate Links to iTunes Products

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One of the worst ever interfaces i have ever come across is that of Rakuten LinkShare. Even before they’ve been bought by Japanese giant Rakuten it was bad, and it hasn’t been improved since I’ve signed up with them in 2008. Lucky for us we don’t have to use their interface to get links to […]

How to create a UIBarButtonItem in code and make it call a method

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Some things are really easy to do via a Storyboard – but when you want to create the same thing in code I frequently forget how to do it. Turns out it’s equally simple: this example assumes you have a View Controller which is embedded in a Navigation Controller (so it already has a UINavigationBar […]

How to remove a Core Data Model Version

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Core Data can handle several versions of your Model. It’s easy to add a version (via Editor – Add Model Version) and set it active, but it’s not so easy to remove a version you no longer need. Thankfully there is a way to delete version files which goes a long way to declutter your […]

How to create a View Controller defined in you your Storyboard programmatically

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Your View Controllers are created by the Storyboard automatically depending their defined relationships in Interface Builder. Sometimes however we need to create and transition to View Controllers we’ve defined in code. For example, if you want to transition to a view as part of displaying a search result. We can do this by creating a […]