Tips & Tricks

Photograph / Documenting

Macro Ring LED Light – This gets you a nice even lights, when you don’t have nice cloudily day to diffuse your light source.

Turn your WordPress to One Big Flat zip file

https://wordpress.org/plugins/static-html-output-plugin/

Install wordpress on your local host if you don’t have a server
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP

Good WordPress plugin and settings

AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild – Rebuilds the thumbnails on the site.
Default Image Link – Helps you to reduce the site file size by making linking images to the source to “none” by default.

MODELA MDX-20 – Connection Issue

If you can’t move the drill head and getting the “cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied with
#2 MODELA MDX-20 in east lab (media lab).

Please open terminal and type in
sudo gpasswd –add fab dialout

Mercurial Installation

#1 Install Homebrew to install Mercuroal
ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)”

#2 Install Mercuroal
$ brew install mercurial
#3 Download all keys from professor Gershenfeld to your downloads folder.
mkdir ~/.ssh
mv ~/Downloads/classes.txt ~/Downloads/classes (might be necessary)
mv ~/Downloads/classes ~/.ssh
mv ~/Downloads/classes.pub ~/.ssh
sudo chmod 600 ~/.ssh/classes
echo -en “host fab.cba.mit.edu\nport 846″ > ~/.ssh/config
#4 Set local file directory
mkdir ~/Desktop/Archive
hg clone -e “ssh -i ~/.ssh/classes” ssh://hg@fab.cba.mit.edu/863.11 ~/Desktop/Archive

Change to your name and email address, then paste the entire line into the terminal:
echo -en “\n\n[ui]\nusername = First Last <email@mit.edu>\nssh = ssh -i ~/.ssh/classes -C\n\n[extensions]\nconvert =\nfetch =\n\n[hooks]\n\nchangegroup = hg update >&2″ >> ~/Desktop/Archive/.hg/hgrc

Pull and Push with Mercurial

hg pull
hg update
hg add .
hg commit -m “adding this file”
hg push