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Java: Parts of the Day

2017-03-16 ·1 min read

A Java utility method that maps an hour from 0 to 23 to labels such as Early Morning, Afternoon, Evening, or Night.

2016-10-26 ·1 min read

Restore image dimensions and metadata in Dolphin on Gentoo by enabling the semantic-desktop USE flag and rebuilding the file manager.

2016-10-12 ·1 min read

Improve NetBeans font rendering on Gentoo Linux by enabling Swing antialiasing and configuring the look and feel in netbeans.conf.

2016-07-04 ·1 min read

Truncate MySQL tables with foreign key constraints by dropping and recreating constraints or temporarily disabling FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS.

2016-05-13 ·1 min read

Fix TortoiseGit’s publickey authentication error by converting an SSH private key to PPK format with PuTTYgen and loading it into Pageant.

2016-02-05 ·2 min read

Change the screen resolution of a CentOS or RHEL virtual machine in Hyper-V using grubby to configure the hyperv_fb framebuffer driver.

2016-02-01 ·3 min read

Configure a PCN-001 8-bit ISA Ethernet card for a Pravetz 16 PC XT clone, including jumper settings and the NE1000 DOS packet driver.

2016-01-28 ·3 min read

Build a digital clock for a PC XT clone using Turbo C and the Borland Graphics Interface (BGI), with source code and compilation instructions.

2016-01-26 ·3 min read

Explore BIOS interrupts 11h and 12h with SINFO.EXE, a Turbo C and inline assembly program that reports hardware details on a PC XT clone.

2016-01-17 ·1 min read

Display Android Studio’s debug certificate fingerprints on Windows using keytool and a batch file that reads the default debug keystore.