Lloyd Leung

Author: LloydLeung

  • 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

  • how I'm using software now, as opposed to a few years ago.

    I’ve used Firefox for a long time… since version 0.6 if I remember right. The main feature of firefox is it’s flexibility and expandability of extensions. I’ve now realized, that the majority of the applications I used, are web based. Google Calendar and Gmail has replaced MS Outlook. Google Docs has eliminated my need to…

  • DOs and DON'Ts for Technology resumes.

    NOTE: I’m not claiming this is true for all career fields. These are only my thoughts on that matter… I am not an expert nor do I claim to be one in the matters of this post. At work, I’ve been scanning through resumes that come across my desk to help fill positions. There are…

  • find svn directories and remove them

    find . -name “.svn” -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1024 -r rm -rf -n prevents rm too many arguments error -r prevents execution if none found (and prevents error!) originally from: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/902/delete-all-.svn-directories-from-current-path-recursive

  • Finally! Some kind soul made facebook a little better.

    Remove those silly quizes, that everyone is doing… “what type of X am I” type apps, that splatter your feed. Author’s page here