windows 7 32 bit to 64 bit upgrade
windows 7 32 bit to 64 bit “upgrade” (reinstall really). Same product key will work.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Chromecast “no cast devices found”
Disable any virtual network adapters in device manager (like from virtualbox).
Drupal speed
Significant speedup: APC <- alternative php cache view cache (under view’s configuration: View content cache: http://drupal.org/project/views_content_cache css/js aggregation: https://drupal.org/project/advagg Other modules: Boost, authcache Configuration -> Development -> performance: enable whatever cache checkbox you see. Disable developer module putting ?blah after css and javascript files, since this prevents caching.
convert ^M to newline
for whatever reason, dos2unix nor unix2dos works. So, vi the file, :%s/^V^M/^V^M/g ^V^M = control V control M g at the end means global (i.e. not only first occurrence.
Drupal slow
change /etc/hosts. For every entry related to local host (INCLUDING ipv6 entries), map to localhost, e.g.: ::1 localhost #ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 localhost #ip6-localnet ff00::0 localhost #ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 localhost #ip6-allnodes ff02::2 localhost #ip6-allrouters
restrict sshd users
in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (on some systems it is simply /etc/sshd_config) add: AllowUsers root AllowUsers joe Note that as soon as you enable one AllowUsers option, no users can login unless they are listed. In other words, despite the PermitRootLogin setting, if you do not set “AllowUsers root” and have “AllowUsers joe” in your configuration, root cannot log in even with a […]
cygwin: add user (for ssh in my case)
install cygwin. setup ssh server: From cygwin: ssh-host-config -y add user to windows in cygwin, run: mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd Also, run mkgroup -l > /etc/group More info on setting up ssh server: http://www.noah.org/ssh/cygwin-sshd.html
nexus 7 not recognized by adb
To get your nexus 7 to work with debugging in windows 7, 0. go to settings -> about tablet -> tap build number 7 times to enable developer options. 1. Enable debug mode on your Nexus 7. To do this, go to Settings, Developer options, and check Enable Debug mode. 2. Plug in the device […]
safari gets stuck loading and rendering part of page
Maybe dns prefetch issue (like with google adsense). Try, in your mac: defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean false Or these other various tricks at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408
ubuntu unity messed up
You login to ubuntu. desktop all messed up. try: gconftool-2 –recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1 unity –reset or unity –replace