Category Archives: Technical

“Rational” IT related entries.

How to load VirtIO storage drivers in Windows System Restore

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Dae

If you need to load VirtIO block storage driver (aka viostor) in Windows System Restore (aka Windows Recovery Mode) to recover your Windows virtual machine, take the following steps. (Also please read my note below).

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How to add an existing virtual disk to Proxmox

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Dae

It’s trivial to create virtual disks in Proxmox, but what if you want to add an existing disk to a new virtual machine?

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Windows not detecting unallocated space after extending virtual disk

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Dae

You’ve extended a virtual disk in Vmware or Proxmox for a Windows virtual machine, but the disk appears the same size in Disk Management?

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Sample AppleScript + Bash uninstaller

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Dae

Should you ever need to write an uninstaller for your macOS app, feel free to base it on our project—written entirely in AppleScript and Bash: https://github.com/SmoothMouse/Uninstaller

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XQuartz.pkg stalls at “verifying” in El Capitan

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Dae

I don’t know why OS X El Capitan sometimes fails to verify XQuartz 2.7.9 package (the process just gets stuck despite “Allow apps downloaded from anywhere” on “Enabled”). What I know, however, is that you can still install it via Terminal as easy … Continue reading →

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Run Django dev server with Gulp

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Dae

This is basically an extract from this excellent article by Caktus Group’s Calvin Spealman.

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Django: add i18n template tag to built-ins

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Dae

Django 1.9 allows you to load template tags globally, i.e. without having to include {% load %} statements at the top of each template. The new option is called builtins and you can set it in your settings.py like so … Continue reading →

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librsvg 2.40.11 breaks resizing in rsvg-convert

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Dae

rsvg-convert 2.40.11 calculates SVG bounds incorrectly resulting in an empty or cropped image. (See my comment in Homebrew repository and the bug report). 

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Magnific Popup + HTML5 History API (demo)

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Dae

A demo of Magnific Popup with unique URLs and browser Back/Forward button support, using HTML5 History API via History.js. GitHub.

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Watermark images like a pro using Python + Wand + librsvg

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Dae

This is a Python 2.7 code recipe for applying a semi-transparent vector (SVG) watermark with overlay blending like so: What’s special about it:

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