Thursday, July 26, 2012

Getting Wireless Networking To Work On Acer Travelmate C110 in Windows 7

Use the driver from here : http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=11918&lang=eng

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Backup a complete Linux system

tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/dev /

Friday, February 24, 2012

Ubuntu 10: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk error: Package sun-java6-jdk is not available


Ubuntu 10
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk error

Package sun-java6-jdk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ‘sun-java6-jdk’ has no installation candidate

Solution:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk


Saturday, February 11, 2012

Installing Media Wiki on Centos 5 Fatal Error: PHP's PCRE module seems to be compiled without PCRE_UTF8 support.

rpm -Uvh http://zid-lux1.uibk.ac.at/pub/dist/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/pcre-6.6-6.el5_6.1.i386.rpm

rpm -Uvh http://zid-lux1.uibk.ac.at/pub/dist/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/pcre-devel-6.6-6.el5_6.1.i386.rpm


Tuesday, January 31, 2012

CentOS Yum Error: thread.error: can't start new thread

When the error is in fastestmirror.py, use the yum --disableplugin=fastestmirror ... option

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

How to convert Android mobile 3gp audio files to MP3 files on Windows


  • Copy all the *.3gp files to Windows
  • Install FFMPEG on Windows
  • Start Command Prompt and change to the directory with the 3GP files
  • Enter

    for %a in (*.3gp) do ( ffmpeg -i %a -ar 22050 %a.mp3)

Monday, September 5, 2011

Setting a default custom page zoom or Google Chrome

Go to :

C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets

Open up Custom.css

insert :

body {zoom: 1.25}

Save, and every page will now be be zoomed  X 1.25

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

To recursively find all the files in a folder tree

xcopy C:\MyFolder\*.doc /S /L

will list out all .doc file in C:\MyFolder and all subfolders

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Rename a file with date and time as the file name in a Windows batch file

ren yourfilename.txt %date:~6,4%%date:~3,2%%date:~0,2%%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%.txt

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Getting PHP cURL to work in MoWes

Copy php_curl.dll, php_gd2.dll, ssleay32.dll to apache\bin.
Enable extension=php_curl.dll in php.ini
Restart apache

 
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