After adding the shared folder Websites to fstab by adding the line Websites /var/www vboxsf rw,uid=33,gid=33 0 0 and giving the right permissions, I always got the following error during my virtual Linux Mint boot: keys:Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery All I had to do was add vboxsf on a …
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<script type=”text/javascript”> var dojoConfig = { baseUrl: ‘/lib’, async: true, packages: [ {name: ‘Leaflet’, location: ‘./Leaflet’} ], map: { // lets you switch between minified and source version of leaflet for development ‘*’: { ‘Leaflet/leaflet’: ‘Leaflet/leaflet-src’ } } }; </script> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”lib/dojo/dojo.js”></script> <script type=”text/javascript”> require([ ‘require’, ‘Leaflet/leaflet’ ], function(require, L) { // load plugin …
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Quick cooking recipe to install PHP oci8 on Linux Mint 17 / 18. Download the Instant Client from the Oracle Website and follow the instructions at the bottom of the download page. Download the Instant Client SDK from the same location, unpack it and move the SDK folder to the same folder where the Instant …
If your Linux (Mint) fails to boot because you broke the /etc/fstab, for example, you’ll end up with a ready only root shell. The trick is to mount the root partition to as read-write without actually unmounting it: # mount -o remount,rw / After doing that, you wil be able to edit /etc/fstab, correct the …
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A simple way to add to a database record instead of replacing it with Oracle: UPDATE myTable SET textField = :text||textField WHERE … This comes in handy, when you have a form field, which can be empty, but should not overwrite an existing record when posted (This should also be easily adapted to other SQL …
A few years back I converted my photos from the proprietary Nikon NEF format to Adobes open DNG format, because I’m convinced of the open source idea and hate proprietary formats. But now that I started to enter photo contests, I have a problem. I can’t use any of these photos, since all contests want …
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I haven’t read about this in most reviews of the Nikon D810. It’s a small, but very welcome addition to customize your camera settings. You can now limit the selection of AF area modes. I for example never use neither 3D-tracking nor Auto-area AF. Now I can disable them in the menu a11 Limit AF-area …
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Quick installation guide to setup your Google Calendar in Thunderbird 31.2 with the Lightning Calendar Addon 3.3.1. You don’t even need to install the ‘Provider for Google Calendar’: Create a new calendar by right clicking on the calendar pane, then select ‘On the Network’ Select ‘CalDav’ as you remote calendar format and put the following …
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I love my D800, but I was always annoyed, that I could not turn on or off the ISO-AUTO setting with one hand. But after playing around with my camera settings I found the following solution: First create an new entry in your MY MENU and make sure it’s the first item at the top. …
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Took my quite a while to find this, because it’s hardly mentioned anywhere except as a note on the Mozilla Developer Network: When you are using a flexbox layout in multi-line mode (e.g. the ‘flex-wrap’ property is set to wrap), you can force flex items to start on a new line by setting the ‘page-break-before’ …
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