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little project ideas

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Just found a need to access my home server… however, it’s powered down… how can I overcome this problem in the future.  To answer my own question…  I should go lookup how to send a wake-on-lan command to the box. As well as know what my IP is…

project ideas:

1.) Current IP notifier – send to my webserver, what my home server IP is. (Dynamic). I could use a dynamic dns service… this maybe interesting to learn how to do this, if I have my own VPS… have the home-server, notify the web-server to update the DNS setting. So I would have something like: homelan.lloydleung.com or whatever.

2.) wake on lan commands.
3.) vpn to the network instead… with a combo on 1. This way, everything is encrypted…

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My current extension list for firefox 3.0.1

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

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Encryption idea

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

A few months ago, I saw this method of jumbling words to make words all weird.

“Hree is an exmlape”

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Windows Vista timesync problem

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Add “pool.ntp.org” to the server list solved my problem.

The quick explanation is that the other servers on the list, are being hammered by millions of other window machines.

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ajax form submits problem

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

yesterday was a few hours of frustration.

Make sure your your <form> tag is within the same <td> cell element.  Otherwise it’s not XML compliant.

You can have the form outside the <table> — but not between it, and a <td> element.

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Got RSS?

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Yes, RSS is old news. Everyone and their dog has an rss feed. Okay, maybe not.

However, here’s a super easy way to to monitor RSS feeds.   Thunderbird!!! Yes, that’s old too, I know.  If you don’t have News & Blogs, you’ll have to add an account first.  Now you have an easy way to just drag new feeds over.

  1. Find an rss feed, look on the side of this side, and you’ll see an RSS feed.
  2. Drag it to your News & Blogs section in thunderbird.

Now I don’t need to open up all my those sites to figure out what if there’s something new. RSS feeds will automatically find out for me, and notify me whenever something is new.Suggestions for RSS use:

  1. Monitor a friend’s del.cio.us bookmarks. :) “Hi SAM! I’m watching you!”
  2. Monitor someone’s blog.
  3. okay, here’s a real useful one. Monitor new file releases on sourceforge.
  4. Forums and Announcements

That’s how I’m using RSS… any other suggestions to use RSS?

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Canon MP530 – change default scan buttons actions

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

How to change the default scan button / buttons actions.

Windows XP (maybe others)

  1. control panel -> scanners and camears
  2. select the WIACanon MP530 driver
  3. right click properties -> events
  4. change events action to what you require

Intuitive after you know where to look… took me a bit of time, so hope this helps others that want to change the default actions.

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Gallery is fixed.

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

My old gallery is fixed now…

debating on writing a new gallery, or make a plugin for wordpress to have a gallery.

How the plugin would work…
1.) Create a keyword, to enable the gallery.
2.) grab uploaded files, that are images via mime type, and display them.
3.) display the images via lightbox2, or something else that’d be suitable.
4.) Get titles, and descriptions for files

Pretty handy utility, not much else needed. All the hard parts are already handled by WP.

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Ubuntu + Mysql setup

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Wow, that was so painless.

Original Post

Use your favourite means to install mysql, probably apache, php, phpmysqladmin as well…


sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
mysqladmin -u root password myPassword

where myPassword is your actual password.

to test
mysql -u root -p

enjoy

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