Ben McCann

Co-founder of Connectifier.
Investor at C3 Ventures.
Google and CMU alum.

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2010

Creating .asc signature files with GPG

08/01/2010

First make sure you don’t have a key already: gpg –list-keys If you didn’t and need to create a key then run: gpg –gen-key It might hang for awhile while generating enough random entropy. Run “ls -R /” to speed things up. And upload it to a public key server: gpg –keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu –send-keys <keyid> Read More

Getting started with R

07/25/2010

Getting Help R is incredibly frustrating to learn because it is impossible to do a Google search and have anything meaningful come back for the query “R”.   RSeek may provide some help in this regard. Installing Libraries To use R in Linux, I recommend installing the latest version of the RKWard GUI program. As Read More

Installing Evan’s Debugger in Ubuntu

06/27/2010

Evan’s Debugger is a Linux replacement for OllyDbg. You can install it by downloading the .tar.gz and doing the following: $ sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev $ sudo apt-get install libboost1.40-all-dev $ tar zxvf debugger-0.9.15.tgz $ mv debugger /usr/local/src/ $ cd /usr/local/src/debugger $ qmake -makefile DEFAULT_PLUGIN_PATH=”/usr/lib/edb/” $ make $ sudo make INSTALL_ROOT=/usr install

My first experience with Ubuntu

06/26/2010

I just got a laptop loaded with Lucid Lynx and have had a bit of a mixed experience adjusting.  I’ve actually used Ubuntu a bit in the past, but only minimally and never as my primary computer until now. First reactions I like the default background. Have the fonts improved?  Fonts have always looked bad Read More

Trouble Resuming NX Session

03/17/2010

Resume button disabled I was unable to resume my NX session.  While trying to connect, the resume button was greyed out (or grayed out)  This apparently can happen if the two machines are running at a different color depth. The machine I was trying to connect to was running Ubuntu, so I checked the color Read More