Like any other well-respected geek, I would love to have many computers all around me. However, money constraints make that hard, yet it’s still possible to have extra machines around… if they are virtual. For those unfamiliar with the concept, virtualization is exactly what it sounds like: an entire computer is created in software, possibly…
Category: Tutorials
Batch-converting images for an HDTV
A couple of days ago, my parents bought their first HDTV. Since it has a USB port that can be used to show pictures stored on a flash drive, I found myself in the position of finally using an old 512 MB stick I had lying around. I scouted my iPhoto Libraries for pictures, and…
Installing the MySQLdb Python module on Snow Leopard
Needing to access a MySQL database through Python, I was faced by the inability to easily install the MySQLdb module. I do use MacPorts, but after running the obvious sudo port install py26-mysql I realized that I would be downloading, compiling and installing a new instance of Python, a new instance of MySQL (I prefer…