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Andrew Schwäbe in PainInTheApps

Nov 19, 2015

VirtualBox and Resizing an LVM root partition

New projects to work on! That means configuring my virtual machines to fit more stuff. I never seem to think ahead about how much space I need. I work on a laptop with an SSD, so storage is a premium…

Sure, I could just create a new VM, but all…

Andrew Schwäbe in PainInTheApps

Apr 7, 2018

Why Mobile Autocorrect is Evil

All you need to do is a simple search, and you will find a plethora of funny and horrifying mobile autocorrect #fails. Is this just a “thing” we need to learn to live with? After all, technology changes fast, maybe autocorrect is just another one of “those things” we will…

Andrew Schwäbe in PainInTheApps

Sep 29, 2012

Making Macbook Air with 128GB SSD usable with Bootcamp

I recently got a new Macbook Air 11" (the 2012 version) and loaded it with goodies like 8GB ram and 2GHz Core i7. What I DIDN’T upgrade was the internal SSD. My config came with 128GB SSD and I refused to pay $300+ to upgrade it to…

Andrew Schwäbe in PainInTheApps

Mar 4, 2016

Installing python 3.4.x on OSX El Capitan

I love “brew” package manager, but sometimes being too progressive breaks things. I have several python apps that I maintain that get deployed to AWS using Elastic Beanstalk. AWS eb can deploy with python 2.7 or 3.4. Any recent ‘brew install python3" will…

Andrew Schwäbe in PainInTheApps

Jul 24, 2014

Tablet Display Resolution: More is Better, Right ?

In my ongoing quest for a proper productivity touchscreen device, I’ve tried many different ones. Most recently I have been using an iPad mini with and without Retina Display, a Lenovo Thinkpad 8, a Lenovo Lynx with battery keyboard, a Dell…

Andrew Schwäbe in PainInTheApps

Feb 22, 2018

Gun Control: Does power belong to the people?

I feel like a BROKEN RECORD. Every time a mass shooting happens, politicians wax hot about who is the first and last to blame guns. I just read the article about Florida student Emma Gonzales saying “we call BS” to lawmakers, and you know what? She…

Andrew Schwäbe in PainInTheApps

Jun 15, 2016

Python: Append items to a tuple

Tuples, tuples, tuples. Thats fun to say. We’ve all used them, but dynamic assembly of them? Now this is cool — and something I never needed to do until today of course. Appending values to a list, or a dict is easy and well documented, but less common is the need to append…

Andrew Schwäbe in PainInTheApps

Jan 6, 2015

WAMP Apache Performance Woes [Fixed]

I’ve been running Apache on Windows for many years. This particular server is a relic from when I had mostly windows servers running. Nowadays, everything is cloud deployed with Linux. Still, its nice to have a “physical server” somewhere for quick prototype and…

Andrew Schwäbe in PainInTheApps

Jul 28, 2016

Amazon AWS: Free SSL Certificates and Renewals

Maintaining SSL certificates used to be the bane of my existence mainly because it is ALWAYS crazy different depending on where you are deploying, what OS, whether or not you have openSSL installed etc….

Reason #42 why I love AWS ? SSL certs are…

Andrew Schwäbe in PainInTheApps

Sep 21, 2014

A Road Warrior Review of iPhone 6 Plus 5.5" Smartphone

I am always on the go. I do everything from office work to motorcycle rides to the pistol shooting competitions to Australian trips to the deep outback. I demand much from my electronics, so I have high expectations. Look at my…

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