Lloyd Leung

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  • Encryption idea

    A few months ago, I saw this method of jumbling words to make words all weird.
    “Hree is an exmlape”

  • 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.

  • I have hit inbox ZERO

    Inbox zero is when you have zero messages in your inbox.
    You setup a bunch of verbs that you can ever do with emails.

    • Delete
    • Delegate
    • Respond
    • Defer
    • Do

    Pretty simple.
    To help with this process…
    Mark all your stuff that you filter into folders, as read. If you don’t read it often, unsubscribe to those lists. These lists have search functions, use it.
    Why am I keeping a list of emails that are anceint? Archieve it. If it’s absolutely useless, delete it. If I’ve responded to it, archieve it.
    Check out this link: http://www.43folders.com/2007/07/25/merlins-inbox-zero-talk/
    A good analogy is, if you’re a subway sandwich artist, when you get an order, you don’t sit down, and wait for more orders, you handle them as they come in. Not collect them, and when you feel like it, do them.
    Inbox zero requires discipline. Watch the video in the above link, and get a feel for how to handle your inbox disaster.

  • 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?

  • Got blogspam?

    Got troubles with your blogspam?
    Want to get rid of blogspam, or at least stem the tide of rushing spew that goes to your blog?
    For wordpress, as that’s what matters to me, install akismet, and spamkarma. If one doesn’t catch it, the other will.
    Akismet is already installed as part of the default install of the latest wordpress (requires a free api key).
    Spamkarma is really free.

  • 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

  • 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 application in my opionion.
    Eagle layout program is a good PCB design application, however, it’s crashing on me recently… who knows why. I’ll compare version numbers, and upgrade if need be.