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Virtualbox guest additions on vagrant-ised CentOS box

Hoping this might be useful for someone else, since Google didn’t turn up the answer for me. I got a vagrant-packaged CentOS box from a colleague, and starting it up warned me that the VirtualBox Guest Additions were out of date. Fixing things involved these steps: Get VirtualBox to “Install Guest Additions” (from the Devices [...]

Send me a screenshot

This week at work has taught me an important lesson about making (and asking for) effective bug reports: screenshot screenshot screenshot. Bug reports are tricky because of two enormous gaps between the user making the report and the developer reading it. Formally speaking you might call these “information asymmetry” and “lack of a shared vocabulary”. [...]

Firefox frustration

I wanted to write a post explaining why I consistently confuse Spain with Israel and Japan in Greek, but for some reason Firefox won’t let me enter lowercase Greek letters. Anywhere. (No more searching youtube for rebetiko songs either, until I figure out what’s going on. Anyone got a clue? Weird thing is, uppercase works [...]