Monthly Archives: November 2015

Bought a Digital MultiMeter and I like it

I bought a Craftsman Digital Multimeter 82141 the other day and start to use it today. I like it very much and here is the DigitalMultimMeter82140 Manual

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How to remove a printer from CUPS on Ubuntu?

Use this command: sudo lpadmin -x HPLaserColor

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Corrupt svn repository gave me some trouble

I’m using Tortoise svn and suddenly one svn folder was corrupt. I can still check out files from it but I just could’t get the latest version. I trid to check out from different machines and I had the same … Continue reading

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Where is my hard drive space?

Today I found my hard disk was full. I remembered not long ago it was still 50%. How come? Then I downloaded a program from here: http://www.fosshub.com/WinDirStat.html It turned out c:\windows\Temp folder is taking up 119GB!

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How to install CUPS on raspberry pi?

Check out this link: http://blog.pi3g.com/2013/08/using-the-raspberry-pi-as-cups-print-server-for-windows-and-apple-mac-airprint/ Then you need to install printer driver for your printer. For my printer (Brother 2240), I have to download the ppd file from here. If you have the same printer, remember to run “apt-get install … Continue reading

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How to install ftp on raspberry pi?

Following these steps: 1. sudo apt-get install vsftpd 2. vi /etc/vsftpd.conf 3. Make sure these values are not commented: Anonymous_enable=NO Local_enable=YES Write_enable=YES 4. Save your change. 5. sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

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How to find ip addresses on your local network?

You can use “arp -na”.

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How to shutdown your raspberry Pi?

You cannot shut it down but you can halt it by: sudo halt -p Also, you can use win32DiskImager to backup and restore your pi cards.

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SharePoint powershell – how to add a timestamp?

Here is how (and how to output variable properties): filter timestamp {“$(Get-Date -Format o): $_”} Write-Host(“$($_.LoginName) ” |timestamp);

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How to mount an external hard drive on pi?

I googled and the first result is really bad (it is a blog from http://www.modmypi.com). I tried to follow it and it gave me a lot of troubles and it didn’t really mount the drive. I wrote all my data … Continue reading

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