Lloyd Leung

I was getting “Unable to contact YouTube”. I believe my current version as of writing is 1.0.4. This is how I fixed it. I change the DNS settings on the PS3, to point to 8.8.4.4, and 8.8.8.8 (google’s DNS servers). After this change, the youtube app worked just fine. I gave my PS3 a …

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Jan 18

Mass VHOST wildcard, mapping to subdomain to folder

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Linux, Mac, Programming

The original problem: Since I jump from project to project a lot, I have lots of project folders. Summary of the solution: use dnsmasq, and a mass vhost setup. Problem in detail: Normally, you’d have to: create a subdirector for your project all the standard setup stuff for your project. Setup an …

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Aug 30

Migrating to google apps, from an old mail server.

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Here’s was my problem: I had a gmail email address, and my own domain (lloydleung.com, this site). I never setup lloydleung.com under google apps, as I already had gmail setup to pull from mail.lloydleung.com. Now that I’m leaving my current hosting provider, textdrive/joyent, i needed to migrate mail.lloydleung.com to another place. Google apps, I’ve already …

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Aug 30

flush clear dns on Mac OSX 10.7+ 10.8+

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Mac

The following two commands should work in OS X, 10.7+ dscacheutil -flushcache sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder sudo killall -HUP dnsmasq Mind you, dscacheutil never worked for me… the second has always worked for me. Update 2012-10-17: Added killall for dnsmasq If you’re pinging something that you’re expecting another ip, check your network configuration, and …

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Mar 12

Magento Customer Segments vs Customer Groups

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magento customer segments groups segment group

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Mar 12

Magento customer segment by past purchase history

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I wanted to fulfil the following use case: Create a customer segment based on past purchase history. If a user has purchased SKU-X, they are to belong to a given customer segment. The problem was, I could not remember why the SKU was not listed in the drop downs while adding a condition in the …

Tags: magento customer segment past history sku attribute

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Oct 29

Peacock Lumber, new project.

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Just came form Peacock Lumber, in Oshawa. Great friendly bunch. Really helpful, and willing to help. I would recommend them to anyone needing lumber/wood supplies. Bought some 3/8″ baltic plywood… secret as to what I’m making for now.

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Jan 17

What I intend on writing about in the near future

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note to self, write about the following: magento objects. Specifically product and customer objects magento optimization. titanium php development.

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Nov 23

Windows 7, links not working

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If you get an error message like: “this operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer” Culprit is google chrome. uninstall google chrome, through it’s uninstaller, not the windows uninstaller reinstall chrome restart any application that is still giving you a problem. �Such as outlook. Drop a line, if this helped.

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Jul 31

Inbox zero, years later…

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Business, General