07/07/2016
Posted by John Vrbanac
linux
I've been playing around with Debian Stretch this week and one of the really
annoying issues I ran into was with font rendering. I was trying to figure out
why my nice fonts looked like garbage. Come to find out, I was just missing a
configuration file! So, if you're …
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05/31/2016
Posted by John Vrbanac
linux
One of the issues people who are developing Python always run into is being
able to install projects and their dependencies without the fear of messing up
your system Python. There are a number of ways to deal with this. The most
often recommended is to use virtual environments. While …
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03/12/2016
Posted by John Vrbanac
linux
This afternooon, I plugged in a usb drive to put a Linux installer on; however,
when I opened gparted to format it, gparted gave me the following error "The
driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says
it is 512 bytes".
This is usually caused …
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02/15/2015
Posted by John Vrbanac
apps and libraries
If you're like me, you've run into the situation where you want to interface
with your cloud resources, but you don't want to use the official clients due
to the number of dependencies it would introduce into your project. This is
where the requests-cloud-auth library comes in. You can make …
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