Lloyd Leung

Ideas, and reference material I find useful

  • 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…

  • 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

  • What is really needed these days for a computer?

    Seems like everything I do these on the computer requires only the following: Open Office .org – for writing documents/spreadsheets etc… Thunderbird – for email Firefox – web browsing For IRC, I’m using MIRC, as that works under wine. I also now have discovered bluefish. Which is a graphical text editor with syntax highlighting. Excellent…

  • 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…

  • Organization and getting things done, a combination of systems.

    I’m trying out the 43 folders system. Plenty of websites out there that show you how to use this system. Along with this other system, which prioritizes tasks into priorities. Important and Urgent. Urgent Important Other Tasks definition of Important of great significance or value; “important people”; “the important questions of the day” significant: important…

  • 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,…

  • 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 Click “Browse …”…

  • Parody At Its Best

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

  • WAMP – apache 2.2+ – mysql – php 5.2.0+

    Requirements: Windows (win32 – windows 2000, windows XP, windows 2003 server etc). Apache 2.2.x (I’m using mysql 2.2.3) Mysql 5.0.+ (I’m using mysql 5.0.22) Php 5.2+ (I’m using 5.2.0 RC2) – Note, that only 5.2.0+ supporteds apache 2.2.x.  Previous versions have to go hunting for files, so I suggest using 5.2.0+.  And at the time…

  • Bunch of useful links

    Links update Games Tetrinet like game Two player sudoku Scorched earth but with 3d graphics Utilities Open Office . Org – Greate free functional office suite, able to export PDFs, and open MS Office documents, among others. Free zip/rar tool Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR Unpacking only: RAR, CAB,…

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