Blackarch on the chuwi hi10pro – prereq’s a usb hub a usb flashdrive a usb mouse a usb wifi adaptor (at least for the initial setup) Download blackarch from https://blackarch.org/downloads.html write to a usb drive (I used Etcher to do this part) Plug into chuwi and boot – Press F7 Read more…
Pihole on a raspberry pi – making a network wide advert blocker with a raspberry pi. I have a router using dnsmasq with adblocking setup on my router. I also have a raspberry pi (which was being used as a retropi machine). I also have a Pizero. My retropi setup Read more…
This post is a collection of things to form a best practice for mac security. 1) enable password after sleep or screensaver. settings > security > require a password immediately after sleep or screensaver. This will stop anyone who sneaks up on your machine when your not there from using Read more…
This post will show you how to encrypt your external drives so that your data remains safe. it really only works with new drives though, so if you have a drive thats already got lots of data on it, you might need to find a way to save that data Read more…
How to disable sleepsafe hibernate mode on your mac. Your mac has a few cool features to let it wake form hibernation quickly. one is called sleepsafe. sleepsafe works by creating a file in your harddrive that contains all of the contents of your ram inside it so that it Read more…
This post will show you how to delete dmg disk image automatically – it will delete a mac disk image file (dmg) when you eject it from your mac There is an easier way to do the following (just drag the mounted dmg file to the trash, but this is Read more…
You can get the ios6 GM versions (they will be identical to the actual released versions when they are released next week) through a simple google search click here for the google results page so that im not linking to anything other than a public google search, just incase ;) Read more…
This post will show you how to turn off the prompt that asks you if you want to use a newly inserted disk for timemachine backups open terminal type defaults write com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool TRUE now you wont be annoyed by the popup every time you insert a new disk!
This short blog post will show you a command that will let you find the ten biggest files or directories in linux and osx machines. I forget these commands every time I need to use them, so I have added a post to my blog to help me be able Read more…
This command will force spotlight to reindex your drive. It is useful if your spotlight index isnt returning results you know it should. This post will help you force spotlight to reindex either your whole machine, or a specific folder. force spotlight to reindex your drive using the terminal open Read more…
This will show you how to eject a stuck dvd or cd from your mac 1) try holding the eject key, it may work 2) try dragging the mounted cd to the trash, it may work 3) open finder and try clicking on the eject button next to the cd Read more…
Automount network drive on startup osx. This will show you how to automount a network drive when you login to osx lion. This method will persist through a reboot, so your drive will always be available. Connect to your network drive (finder > go > connect to server) Enter the Read more…
Disable reportcrash osx. This post will show you how to disable the dialog box that appears when a program crashes in osx. Doing this will stop your system crawling when something crashes! How to disable reportcrash osx launchtl can disable and re-enable crash reporting. To disable crash reporting: launchctl unload Read more…
This short blog post will show you how to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive. I have also added the commands to disable spotlight indexing on network drive that’s already indexed. The first thing you have to do is to make sure you connect your network drive to the Read more…
This will show you how to burn the downloaded osx lion to a usb flash drive so that you can do a fresh install. download lion from the app store. right click the downloaded file click ‘show package contents’ go to contents > sharedsupport right click on the installesd.dmg copy Read more…
This will show you how to burn the downloaded osx lion to a dvd so that you can do a fresh install. 1) download lion from the app store. 2) right click the downloaded file 3) click ‘show package contents’ 4) go to contents > sharedsupport 5) right click on Read more…
Spotlight on osx is a fantastic feature which will give you suggestions by searching your mac for documents and apps. This post will show you how to turn off spotlight search to disable spotlight search suggestions and free up some resources on your machine. There are lots of scenarios where Read more…
How to create an iso from a dvd or cd in mac osx: This will show you how to create an iso image from a cd or dvd in mac osx. goto applications > utilities > disk utility insert your dvd with the data that you want to make an Read more…
Linux! Slackware floppies! zip-slack! Redhat 5.2! Tomsrtbt! Downloading zip-slack over modem for a week. Getting a shell and thinking ‘wtf’ trying dos commands. Having to reboot to read documentation! Trying random commands. Learning that xemacs needs x to run. Wtf is x? I was now at university. it was 1998. Read more…
A monochrome laptop, hooking up to a 14.4k modem, going on a bbs, learning AT commands It was nineteen ninety something before five, probably two or three. I must have been eleven or twelve years old. My dad had a monochrome laptop. 486 25 MHz, monochrome screen, 4Mb ram, 40Mb Read more…
Here are some tips to make your mac boot faster: Rotate your logs open terminal > type: sudo periodic daily weekly monthly this command runs the log rotate scripts, etc Repair disk permissions applications > utilities > disk utility > repair permissions this command repairs disk permissions, this will fix Read more…
This is a short post with the protools bounce to disk shortcut key shortcut keys for mac osx : cmd + alt + b shortcut keys for windows pc: ctrl + alt + b Sources for protools bounce to disk shortcut key Source: Protools Shortcut keys PDF Source: Protools MAC Read more…
Ive been busy mastering tracks. I just mastered 37 tracks (I actually mastered 51 of them, but a few got dropped already) I have bounced them all down to disk and now need to sort out the order of the tracks to make them flow better. I have my own Read more…
so, this is the second ableton tutorial, its kinda boring, but will show you some cool things about abelton,
were gonna cover – how to record your loops to a track, how to consolidate parts you have made, saving live sets, and exporting wav files
so, fire up abelton.
make a simple loop, one bar will