My father died in 2010. He had been diagnosed with leukemia in 2003, 7 years earlier. He had won many tough battles against the illness, including a case of pneumonia, during which he fell into a coma. Our family had gotten used to his illness over the years. You can’t be in a constant state […]
Author : Victor Karp
How to delete old revisions in SVN
This SVN tutorial explains how to delete the history of an SVN repository to save space. This is useful for large amounts of binary data.
How to install Linux Mint on Windows in VirtualBox
This tutorial explains how to run Linux Mint on your Windows computer in a window like any other application by using the program VirtualBox. What is a VirtualBox? VirtualBox is a program that allows you to install other operating systems in a safe container on your computer and run them like applications in a window. […]
A short beginner’s guide to growing plants
This article helps you getting started with growing plants at home. It is meant for people who never had a plant or didn’t have much luck with plants they bought or received as a gift. How to pick an easy starter plant Taking care of your first plant can be intimidating, especially if it grows […]
How to install the latest version of git-cola on Debian/Ubuntu
This tutorial explains how to install the latest version of git-cola, a GUI for git, from its source files. This is useful if you want to use a version that is newer than the one in the software repositories of your Linux distribution. There are two ways to install the latest version: the really easy […]
How to run TortoiseHg from source on Debian/Ubuntu
This tutorial explains how to run TortoiseHg from source code files and install dependencies on a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distribution. TortoiseHg is a GUI for the distributed source control management tool Mercurial. This is useful for distributions like Linux Mint, which does not have TortoiseHg available in the Software Manager and it’s also not possible […]
How to use enums in the Godot Engine
This Godot Engine tutorial explains how to create enums, compare enum values, get enum items and their names and how to format them. What are enums? Enum is short for “enumeration”. Enums are often used for selecting something from a list, where every item is mutually exclusive. Some examples: Enums are created like this: You […]
How to bake animations, rigid bodies and cloth in Blender
This tutorial explains how to convert a single animation frame, a rigid body or a keyframe of a cloth simulation to a static mesh in Blender. I’ve originally written it as a short response to a thread in the Blender Steam Community. Baking animations is useful if you want to: turn an animated character into […]
How to get the most recent Xonotic version by using autobuilds
You can download the latest regular version of the free first person shooter from the official Xonotic website. But this version (0.8.2 at the time of writing this article) is severely outdated and does not have all the new changes that were made after its release. The latest version of Xonotic is necessary if you […]
How to run an application on Linux from the terminal
This tutorial explains how to run an application on Linux from the terminal by typing the application name. This allows you to run AppImages, scripts or any executable file from a terminal, even though you have not installed it via any type of package manager. The quick TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read) below will most […]