Lloyd Leung

Author: LloydLeung

  • Windows 7, links not working

    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.

  • Inbox zero, years later…

    It’s been over three years now, and inbox zero is still happening. I’m throwing everything into an archive folder, for each year’s quarter seems to be working well. Does it give me more productivity? In a single word, yes.

  • Bad Restaurants in Toronto, boycotting one, and can't use the other.

    Mama’s pizza, terrible service, never go there. Swiss chalet online ordering system doesn’t seem to work at all.

  • pidgin.im msn protocol alternative: msn-pecan [update #2]

    Okay, Been working with pidgin w/msn-pecan on ubuntu 10.04.  New problem, pecan doesn’t crash pidgin anymore, however I am logged out after I’ve been away from my computer a little bit.  As in, when the screen saver kicks in, pecan logs me out or can’t maintain a connection. Doesn’t seem to happen in windows 7.…

  • pidgin.im msn protocol alternative: msn-pecan [update]

    Discovered that is crashes a lot, on ubuntu.  Pretty stable (haven’t noticed it crashed yet) on windows. Verdict thus far: good on windows.  Horrible on ubuntu.

  • pidgin.im msn protocol alternative: msn-pecan

    Day 1 I decided to try a new msn protocol for pidgin.im today.  Why? Was just browsing the list of plugins, and saw the alternative… http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan Looked at the list of added benefits, and decided to give it a try… lets see if I stick with it.  So far, it is fast on start up. …

  • Debugging a segfault in PHP

    debugging segfaults is not fun. My low key technique: place a printf(“made it here: %s, %s+ %sn”, __METHOD__, __LINE__, __FILE__); everywhere… put “DIE(‘something’);” to figure out the exact line that fails.  If dies, good.  move it further down.  If it segfaults, move the die statement up.  Until you’ve found the exact line that fails. Figure…

  • little project ideas

    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…

  • Align windows in osx

    http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/twoup/ while it doesn’t do cascade of windows, it does a lot for being free. It can send a window to the left/right/top/bottom half of a window. The full paid version allows a little more. Seems to work fine, after I reset the hotkeys. Useful when trying to view two windows/apps at the same time.

  • Exchange protocol comes to google mail/gmail

    Exchange protocol comes to google mail/gmail. Meaning the iPhone can use it! gmail iphone exchange how-to