I decide to upgrade the performance of my sister’s Late 2011 Macbook Pro by repurposing a 240GB SSD (Solid State Drive). The SSD is formatted as Windows NTFS. I remove the slowpoke mechanical drive and install the SSD into the 2011 Macbook Pro. I boot from a USB 2.0 flash…
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I purchased a 2015 Macbook Air 13. It came with Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. I decide to install macOS 10.14 Mojave. (I am not ready to move to 64bit only with macOS 10.15 Catalina.) After booting from my USB flash drive containing the macOS 10.14 Mojave installer, I run…
Leave a CommentAfter connecting my newly-purchased Mac mini 2018 to my Dell U2410 24 inch 1920×1200 LCD monitor by HDMI cable, I notice that the text is a little blurry and pixelated. The lines aren’t smooth, but jagged. The text looks like it would on an old analog TV. The problem is…
Leave a CommentI purchased a used 2018 Mac mini desktop and wanted to put a fresh installation of the latest macOS 10.15 Catalina on it. Below are the steps I took. Download macOS Catalina You will need a Mac to download macOS Catalina. (The Mac mini came with macOS 10.14 Mojave so…
Leave a CommentI decide to check the CPU temperature on my 2015 Macbook Air 11 inch using a free utility called HWSensors. Note: HWSensors will install itself as HWMonitor app. Do not be alarm if a sensor shows a temperature of 129° Celsius; it means the sensor is missing or not functional.…
Leave a CommentMy old WordPress theme (a heavily modified SunsetIdea theme) was static, not responsive. It took up the same space whether you were viewing it on a desktop monitor, tablet, or smartphone. On a tiny phone screen, you would need to zoom and scroll around the page to read. Given the…
Leave a CommentThis morning, when I adjusted the volume on my desktop, a huge popup overlay appeared on the top-left of the screen, blocking a significant part of the video for 5 seconds. It was the Windows 10 volume on-screen display (OSD), except 10 times bigger than before. Previously, only the left…
26 CommentsBelow is an aggregate of my notes on how to use command line Subversion. The syntax may not be 100% correct (may have changed in newer versions) so please adapt accordingly. Note: For more details, refer to the free book, Version Control with Subversion, written by some of the Subversion…
Leave a CommentTo facilitate web development, I wanted the same environment on my Windows 10 desktop as exists on my Ubuntu VPS server. With WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), I can have the same LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP) setup on my Windows 10 desktop. See my previous post, Install Subversion…
2 CommentsI needed Subversion client access on a fresh Windows 10 installation. Rather than installing one of the Subversion clients for Windows (for example, CollabNet Subversion or SlikSVN), I decided to take advantage of the new WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The best part of macOS is the Linux system which…
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