Erratic comments on using enterprise, desktop and mobile applications. No professional testing, using and commenting on the good stuff, rants on annoying ones

Silvio Casagrande

Feb 2, 2020

(basic) python scripts to help you with data entry stuff…

Very very basic scripts!

Silvio Casagrande

Jan 7, 2018

Fixing my icons in the Build a Gauge Chart That Visually Identifies Regional Data trailhead project

Since Salesforce Einstein Analytics Spring 17 you can create an icon gallery in your Wave Apps.

What could happen if you lost a password?

Loosing access to your inbox is bad enough already. Worst, if someone has access to all…

Silvio Casagrande

Jan 31, 2015

Backing up (&restore!) your files in Mac OS to WD

If you have your own storage like Western Digital My Cloud, you can automatically backup your Mac’s!

Nice feature of course. First make sure that your WD NAS storage has Backup/Restore enable and configured:

Silvio Casagrande

Jan 31, 2015

Finally: Linux Mint 17.1 — Rebecca!

After delaying the upgrade of the aging Asus, now is on Linux Mint 17.1 — Rebecca (love the names of the distros)

Silvio Casagrande

Jan 28, 2015

Unix on Mac OS

One of the nicest things of Mac OS is that it is UNIX underneath. Not a big news here.

Silvio Casagrande

Sep 20, 2014

beloved command line for sync

With all machines running some version of *IX, the command line and rsync are the best to keep files synched between different medias. Or copying all the stuff under /home to an external drive or storage quickly. Something like:

Silvio Casagrande

Apr 20, 2013

Not a clean process yet

Not a clean process posting to WordPress

However editing in vim and trying to keep everything in the command line yet not straightforward.

Silvio Casagrande

Apr 20, 2013

Markdown and simple editing

Getting started with Linux again

How Markdown and vim can get you back into Linux

In the last months I wasn’t using my netbook with Linux Mint, but starting again. An article…

Silvio Casagrande

Oct 23, 2012

Going back to Linux

All Linux distros are making very easy to switch your desktop from Windows. No need any more to go through a full installation on your hard disk, partitioning it and hoping all drivers for your particular machine will be included. More if you are using a laptop or a netbook, always very picky…