Lloyd Leung

Category: Technology

Technology stuff

  • Windows Vista timesync problem

    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.

  • ajax form submits problem

    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.

  • Got RSS?

    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?

  • Canon MP530 – change default scan buttons actions

    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.

  • Gallery is fixed.

    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.

  • Ubuntu + Mysql setup

    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

  • Gnome – multiple monitor taskbar window listing

    How to/howto get gnome to show what’s running on a given monitor. After having linux installed for a while, leaving pretty much the default install running. I decided to venture out and find how to tweak some usability settings.
    There is a program called utlramon for windows that already does this [mentioned above]. A Linux ultramon doesn’t exist, well not as a separate program, as the functionality already exists in gnome.
    Just add a panel to each monitor you want, and add to that panel a window list. That’s it.
    Instructions:
    1.) Right click on anywhere on the launchbar, click “New Panel”
    [UPDATE: 2010/05/02 added ALT]
    2.) hold down ALT + Drag the new panel to any monitor/location.
    3.) Right click on that panel, and click “Add to Panel”
    4.) Select “Window List” under Desktop and Windows
    5.) Click Add.
    6.) Click Close, and you’re done.
    Now I don’t have a cluster of ALL windows on my three head setup on one taskbar.
    If this helps, please drop a line in the comments.

  • howto: Getting EMC LiveCD. Ubuntu dapper drake

    Windows to EMC Live
    First, download the iso image. source, alternatively the mirror.
    1.) unzip/copy md5sum.exe into the same folder/directory as emc2-ubuntu6.06-desktop-i386.iso
    2.) in a dos window… type “md5sum emc2-ubuntu6.06-desktop-i386.iso” without quotes. This may take a few minutes.
    3.) Compare the result to this “6ee5048eb9cb424aa030dfedccc5386b” without quotes.
    4.) if they match, burn the image (google, howto burn an ISO image), and do verification at the end. If the numbers don’t match, you’ll have to redownload the image.
    5.) Open the newly created CD, and you should see multiple files, and folders. If not, please see #4 and google.
    6.) Boot off this CD. Make sure your bios looks at this CDrom as one of the boot devices.
    Places to download md5sum.
    http://etree.org/cgi-bin/counter.cgi/software/md5sum.exe
    http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/md5sum.exe
    http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/md5.zip
    http://downloads.activestate.com/contrib/md5sum/Windows/md5sum.exe
    short explaination of md5sum.

  • How to sync google calendar and motorola razr v3c

    How to synchronize the google calendar and motorola razr v3c
    Make sure the drivers for your motorola razr v3c are installed properly.
    Install bitpim and make sure it detects your phone. Get the latest version, I’m using at the moment version BitPim version 0.9.0.6.
    Within bitpim, file -> import -> google calendar

    1. Click “Browse …”
    2. Click new, the URL is for the iCal link to your google calendar. [See in google calendar, sharing the calander, and there should be an iCal link in the first tab.]
    3. Give it a name, and click “OK”
    4. Select the desired calendar
    5. click “OK”
    6. click “Import”
    7. click “Add”

    That should now be in BitPim’s memory. You will have to upload the new data to the phone.
    Becareful of overwriting manual phone entries.

  • Parody At Its Best

    Mac commercials annoy, but this parody of the mac commercials is just hysterical
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