Kumidaun

I have found it! And I post it here that I can find it back again :)

Blog moved to a new hosting! 2016/01/03

Due to numerous setbacks with previous hosting and the sheer slowness of access I finally decided to move the whole thing (including a bunch of other sites I own) to the new hosting. I hope you enjoy the new location with better responsiveness and less issues with site being down. It will cost me more, […]

Resolving network connection issues on Linux Mint (Ubuntu) 2015/12/05

So several years after purchasing my smallest form-factor netbook Aspire One I have stumbled upon issue that I couldn’t explain myself. Hopefully this would help somebody and save time it took me to figure out. Background The Aspire One was the only netbook with descent (2GB RAM at that time) amount of memory and Linux […]

Tips for using JSON WordPress API for JetPack-powered websites 2015/02/14

Being a lazy person I prefer to automate as much as possible instead of performing routine work manually. Well, you need to make it once to know what you need to automate, but that is where it stops for me. So I had a goal of preparing and publishing a number of posts on my […]

Manipulating files with @ sign in a subversion repository 2014/11/29

Apparently it was a while ago since I had troubles with infrastructure :), but this time it took too long to leave it unnoticed. Quite some time ago I have created several files in the subversion repository with the ‘|’ character in them, which gave problems checking them out on a Windows… ehm… box (if […]

Fixing the ‘Missing required field “updated”‘ error in WordPress TwentyTen theme 2014/09/12

When exploring my hobby website in Google WebMaster tools I noticed that all WordPress posts had the same ‘Missing required field “updated”‘ error. After some searching I understood that the proper solution would be to use a child theme (which I already had since I wanted to change the default font of the TwentyTen theme) […]

Migrating WordPress blog to another domain 2014/08/02

Introduction Recently I had to migrate a blog from a subdomain to a brand new domain. Hereby some notes as this was not as straightforward as I have initially thought. WARNING: use this guide to your own risk without any guarantees. Always make sure you have a backup of all your data before performing any […]

Control touchpad in Ubuntu (Mint) from command line 2014/07/06

I have a small netbook where I like to type occasionally drafts of my posts and documents. One of the annoying things is that I regularly seem to be hitting touchpad and unintentionally moving cursor to whatever position in the document it is not hovering over. Unfortunately the existing Fn shortcuts does not seem to […]

Unable to commit to subversion archive 2014/07/01

This was quite annoying. I have tried several commits in a row blaming network connection and all kinds of gremlins. I have updated Ubuntu server, but still getting the same error: svn: E175008: At least one property change failed; repository is unchanged svn: E175002: Server sent unexpected return value (400 Bad Request) in response to […]

Pylab.show() does not show graph 2014/03/23

Nothing showing up when using pylab.show()? Change the default non-interactive ‘agg’ backend to something that can actually show something: If this fails, on Ubuntu you may need to install Qt first: sudo apt-get install python-qt4 Enjoy!

Microsoft Surface 2 Pro 2014/03/20

Introduction I always take a portable with me on vacations, trips, visits, etc. One time I did not take anything with me turned to be one of the worst-vacation-ever, so I decided that I’d better take something with me and not use it than spoil another vacation in desperate search for something to work on […]