vi utf unicode characters

If vi shows garbled unicode/utf-8 characters Put in ~/.vimrc :   :set encoding=utf-8 :set fileencodings=utf-8   To debug vi, check ~/.vminfo which is generated each time vi starts.  It shows your encoding, etc.

soundmanager2 visualization

Soundmanager2’s visualizations can be missing if file is on remote host. It uses flash (for visualization), so on remote host, create crossdomain.xml. For convenience, allow all: <?xml version=”1.0″ ?> <cross-domain-policy> <allow-access-from domain=”*” /> </cross-domain-policy> ~

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 […]