GBC timing issues resolved
After reviewing all of the build instructions again I found my timing issues and have been able to resolve them, yay!!
After reviewing all of the build instructions again I found my timing issues and have been able to resolve them, yay!!
In the beginning of this year I became aware about something called a Great Ball Contraption, GBC for short. Basically it is a ‘machine’ that has the sole task of transporting balls from one module to the other. When I saw the video from the one that was built by Akiyuki, I just had to built it.
I have been using Blot.im as my blogging service for almost a month now and I am extremely satisfied with the service itself and even more so with the support giving by David Merfield via email and twitter.
This was a very welcome change after having used scriptogr.am for the last 3 years.
I was not completely satisfied with the way the Archives looked within the design template I was using.
The script used to update the Tag Cloud has a couple of issues.
Recently I updated the layout for my blog to include some buttons at the end of each post so readers can easily share it to some social platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Google+). The service I had selected for this was ShareThis.
Lately the Mac Mini was getting somewhat slow again. Looking at the Activity Monitor showed the process mds
to take up 90-100% CPU for one of its cores. The mds
process is one of the processes related to the Spotlight feature of OSX.
Activity Monitor - High CPU usage
Sometimes you just need a simple web server to quickly test a piece of HTML or CSS before uploading it to its final location. Both Python and PHP provide a built-in web server.
Move to the directory containing the files you want to be served by the web server and start the web server process by using one of the following commands