If you use Google Docs in Chrome’s or Firefox’s app mode, you will see instantly how disturbing the new black Google bar is. It’s very intrusive: You can use this script to remove the black bar. However this script works on all Google’s websites. Sometimes it’s useful to have direct links to Google Mail, Images, [...]
¶ Posted 17 November 2011 § ‡ ° If your laptop has either Atheros AR9285 or Ralink RT3090 wireless adapter, then Ubuntu 11.10 shows that driver is properly loaded, wlan0 interface is up, however you can not enable wireless in NetworkManager. Wireless is turned off instantly after you click on “Enable Wireless” or after manually bringing the interface up. The solution is to [...]
¶ Posted 31 October 2011 § ‡ ° I confess, I’m a speed freak, premature optimization type Still not that good with Google’s PageSpeed, i’ll fix those warnings soon (most of them, however, is from external hosts) The essential plugins are: WP-Super-Cache: this one is trivial. Every WordPress blog should have this plugin enabled by default. Use Google Libraries: replace WordPress included javascript [...]
I catched this error in my log: 2010/11/20 12:38:22 [crit] 792#0: *58342 open() “/usr/local/fastcgi_temp/2/23/0000002309″ failed (13: Permission denied) while reading upstream, client: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, server: xxx.host.com, request: “GET /page.php”, upstream: “http://0.0.0.0/dir/page.php”, host: “lamnk.com”, referrer: “http://referrer.com/” fastcgi_temp should in no way belong to /usr/local. It’s clear that if you forget to set configuration flags, nginx will set [...]
If you don’t want to read my rant below: use HttpChunkinModule In my case i used a Readbility API to parse news articles’ content. The API receives requests and POST it back to URL specified in the request. However no matter how hard i tried, the API’s log always told me there was error. I [...]
If Cydia quits during an installation process, it could refuse to run next time. Solution: remove everything in: /var/lib/dpkg/updates/ and every files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ except the folder called partial. Then reboot your Iphone.
Power of NIX: find /some/dir -type f | xargs sed -i ‘s|string1|string2|’ Even stronger, replace a string in all files that match a regex: grep -rlE “^regexhere$” /some/dir | xargs sed -i ‘s|string1|string2|’ Note that grep uses POSIX regex, not perl-like regex. But i think POSIX regex is sufficient for most cases. Or you can [...]
How to remove GNOME panel (it’s not to remove gnome-panel package) Removing the last panel isn’t possible, and as long as the panel is running as Gnome component it will automatically spawn back if you try to kill it. So, if you want to remove the Gnome-panel from your desktop you need to start gconf-editor [...]
The sheer stupidity of this registration form is unfathomable. Not only they don’t allow white spaces, they also forbid vietnamese characters ! How can I submit my name now ?! On the other side, i really give kudos to LacViet for having an usable ecommerce site. They make online transactions quite pleasant to go through [...]
Vim has shown me the power of muscle memory. That’s why i always try to learn hotkeys of any thing i use daily. Managing your desktop environment of course is one of those tasks. Below are non-trivial and useful windows hotkeys that you probably don’t know about. Win + Pause = System Properties Win + [...]
