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Category: techie

  • Windows 7 and Ubuntu on HP Firebird 802

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    Overall, setting up a Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux dual boot on the HP Firebird with VoodooDNA 802 was a breeze. Some observations about this desktop: So QUIET! It ranges from 10 dB (extremely quiet) to 30 dB (quiet room – my EeePc 901’s fan are this quiet), and you can sleep with it on.…

  • Customize Google Spreadsheet Forms – simplified

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    I stripped down GOS’s excellent how-to on using javascript to display a custom message instead of sending users to the unfriendly-looking Google Spreadsheet Forms confirmation page. The simplified code follows: function custommsg() { document.getElementById(“form-message”).style.display=””; document.getElementById(“form-message”).innerHTML=”THANK YOU MESSAGE HERE”; } PASTE YOUR FORM CODE HERE

  • Unicode characters in filename leads to "failed to convert command to 8 bit charset" in FileZilla

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    On Windows XP, I had converted 150 low-resolution (160×120, 10fps) Quicktime MOV files to FLV files, and was trying to upload them through FTP using FileZilla 3.1.2 One of the files somehow had unicode characters inside the filename: “07-82.mov07-82.flv”, which produced the below error: 08:37:40 Status: Starting upload of D:docsGoogle Talk Received Filesvideos07-82.mov07-82.flv (bla bla)…

  • Cite Extension Reflist unavail to anon users

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    yonghokim
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    MediaWiki’s Cite Extension Reflist, normally pulled with the tag, was invisible to anon users, while visible to registered users. The source showed this: Notes I deactivated the parser cache by adding the line $wgEnableParserCache=false; in LocalSettings.php And the problem was solved. Not sure why it was happening, though. Versions: MediaWiki 13.3.3, Cite SVN Snapshot

  • Mailman issue

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    I had the below issue, which was solved by: postalias /etc/aliases /etc/init.d/postfix restart ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Date: Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:18 PM Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) To: krcla.org@gmail.com This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: LISTNAME@DOMAIN Technical details of…

  • MediaWiki+FCKeditor

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    yonghokim
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    This combo works without any core file modifications: MediaWiki 1.12.1 http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-1.12.1.tar.gz FCK Editor Nightly Build as of 10/16/08 7:30 AM PDT http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/nightly/svn/mediawiki_fckeditor_ext_N.tar.gz This combo didn’t work – when clicking “edit” the screen turned white svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3 svn checkout http://svn.fckeditor.net/MediaWiki/trunk FCKeditor wget http://www.fckeditor.net/nightly/FCKeditor_N.zip

  • Internet Explorer and Firefox suddenly show strange string of texts

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    yonghokim
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    From a couple of weeks ago, my browsers have been acting up and showing meaningless strings of text on top of the web page or simply did not load the page at all and instead filled the screen with the texts. At first, I thought it was Google-related pages. such as gMail and Google Calendar,…

  • BlueHost growth

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    yonghokim
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    BlueHost is growing very fast, and part of that are periodic mass downtimes of various servers, including the PHP5 Box 150. As gleaned from the Excel Sheet below, BlueHost has been growing on an average rate of 400 domains a day. It’s kept this pace more or less since September of 2005, which is when…

  • CHIRLA is using CivicSpace!

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    CHIRLA just went from the old plain HTML to this: (CivicSpace powered). Someone in the staff is very, very adventurous. [Tags]civicspace, website design, content management software[/Tags]

  • funky WordPress 2: saved post editing, cat permalink

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    yonghokim
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    WordPress 2 (the pseudo official version.. not RC, available under /downloads, but unannounced as of yet under /blog ) bugs/malfunctionings found so far: When clicking previously saved draft posts, the screen moves automatically to /text/?p=POSTID which obviously doesn’t exist yet, and so it shows an error message. The new permalinks structure (neat small .htaccess!) seems…