by jtpratt | Jun 27, 2014 | distractions, web
There’s been a lot of discussion over the last year about one of the fastest growing sites https://www.airbnb.com/. Airbnb is a place for a normal person to list their home or apartment short term rentals. In some places this has become illegal:...
by jtpratt | Apr 16, 2014 | cell phones, google, tech news
Random its of technology for the day. Amazon is putting together a smartphone: Amazon’s Smartphone Gets Its First Spy Shots Along With Rumored Specs Google’s Project Ara is creating a modular build your own phone system for 2015 release:...
by jtpratt | Nov 7, 2013 | car tech
When I was a kid we all thought by now we’d be seeing flying cars and moving sidewalks. Like the Jetsons. Nothing has really happened to change our daily commutes, even the Segway – which was supposed to revolutionize transportation, largely did nothing. If Google has...
by jtpratt | Oct 18, 2012 | linux, liveCD, resources and tips, ubuntu linux
Let’s say your on a Windows box, and then you install an Ubuntu VM with VirtualBox. Maybe you give it a default 4GB or 8GB HDD, and then you start installing the things you need to work in your environment. If you’re doing web development (like me), that...
by jtpratt | Oct 17, 2012 | linux, tutorial, ubuntu linux
In VirtualBox by default usually your VM size is 8GB. You might run out of space, and need a larger virtual machine. Recently on a windows box (gack!) I had an Ubuntu VM spun up that needed more space – and there’s no way at all to do this in the GUI....
