After spending hours trying to figure out why Google Chrome (Linux guest) was freezing when I was on www.gmail.com, I realized it had something to do with VirtualBox. I have two workarounds for it now Disable 3D Acceleration Launch google-chrome in Xubuntu with the following switch "--blacklist-accelerated-compositing" Anyway…
I used to this without any problems on my Thinkpad when I was running Windows 7. It was pretty straightforward then. Download the ISO from Microsoft Store Download Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool Create bootable USB For some reason, with my Sony Vaio and Windows 8, sometimes it doesn't…
Before making some calls to my RESTful Web Services, I wanted to check if my remote Java application could reach the server. I tried to use the java.net.InetAddress.isReachable() method but it kept on failing. I was testing out my code on my Linux VM and stumbled upon…
When looking at the options for the push.default value, I noticed that "upstream" was one of the possible actions. upstream - push the current branch to its upstream branch (tracking is a deprecated synonym for this). With this, git push will update the same remote ref as the one…
When I plug my Nexus 4 into my Xubuntu VM and run adb devices, it displays the following ???????????? no permissions I don't remember facing this problem with my Nexus 10, but I might have done something to fix it and just can't remember. That's another good reason to have started…
After updating Android Studio I started getting this error when launching Android Studio Failed to import Gradle project: Could not fetch model of type 'IdeaProject' using Gradle distribution 'http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6-bin.zip'. A problem occurred configuring project ':<project name>'. A problem occurred…