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entering UEFI modern operating system loading firmware isn’t about writing assembly in the master boot record anymore, it’s about writing a UEFI application. Intel was the entity to start this standard as “EFI”, which was later incorporated into a “UEFI Forum”. the UEFI specification is heavily influenced by the dominance of the C language convention and Microsoft’s portable executable format of…
WordPress has their famous 5-minute install. It’s so fast, that it takes more time to read a manual on how to set it up, than to actually set it up. So, let’s see how to install Drupal instead. These two are both content management systems that is much better than managing hundreds of HTML files alone. 1. Install Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL, PHP Brennen Bearnes has written a nice detailed article on…
What happens if you’re lazy (like me), and happen to only make that final commit way past your boss’s deadline? Well, you can manipulate the date!~ Before you commit your code, simply add the following lines: export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE = "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss±hh:mm" export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE = "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss±hh:mm" Now you can commit as usual. git add --all git commit Revert back to wall clock…
So Chrome doesn’t want to kill memory on your computer ; it just wants to hurt it very, very badly. So, i(‘ve always) use(d) Firefox. But there is that annoying sound every time you try to close the window. It comes with this dialogue: And if you’re listening to some soothing music on YouTube and you’ve just called it a day, closing Firefox will ensure that you can’t sleep at least for the next 20…
Coming to Github, it was a pleasant treat to see they give you a cool place to host your own static website, and an added bonus of Jekyll if you’re interested in blogs. So this blog. Here’s how i got up and running with the basic configuration: 1. Create a GitHub repository The repository name must be in the exact following syntax : username.github.io 2. Clone the repository onto your desktop. You…