Author: sroot

  • How to change a folder icon to a picture in Mac OS X

    In an earlier post I showed how I set my screenshots to save in a custom folder rather than onto my desktop (I seem to take a lot of screenshots). I also shared a little camera icon that I made for it. One of the comments asked how I changed the folder icon, so I’ve…

  • VMware consolidated backup missing a catalogue file – fixed!

    As always seems to be the case, a routine update of server software becomes a problem. This time it was updating VMware ESXi from 4 to 5. I know, I’m a little behind the times, but it was working, and it’s only a small office server… and I should have left it alone, sigh. So,…

  • A quick note on my first steps using stripe.com

    I’m building a web site for a charity that needs to take credit cards for tickets being sold. I’ve chosen to use stripe.com as: It’s simple to implement They take care of all the security and PCI DSS (I never get any card details to save, that’s a good thing). It’s not expensive (compared to…