I have been messing around with Amazon S3 for hosting files the last few days. One of the things I wanted to do was force a file to download instead of the browser attempting to open it (jpgs, txt, mp3, etc.). A quick Google search didn’t return anything useful. There is a whole bunch of [...]
Archives for September 2009
How to destory a Subversion repository in one line
One of our developers recently taught us how to hose a subversion repository. I wasn’t even aware you could actually cause this much damage. He accidentally ran this “svn remove –force .“. At first glance I made the assumption that this would delete everything in his working copy. That much was true, but it went [...]
Installing Flash 10 64bit plugin for Firefox on Ubuntu
I recently setup Ubuntu 9.04 on my 64bit AMD machine. The biggest headache aside from the ATI driver issues was getting Flash 10 to work in Firefox. At the time of this writing Flash 10 64bit for Firefox 64bit is still in Alpha.
1) Remove all pre existing flash installations and files
sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash [...]
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