To increase the loging time of phpmyadmin edit :
/etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
Add the following line :
$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = 3600 * 9;
To make the login time 9 hours.
Along with this also check session.gc_maxlifetime in php.in to be higher than or equal to this value. Otherwise session time will be the lower of the two values.
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July 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
To change print margins in Firefox in Ubuntu :
1. Open a new tab and type about:config in the Url and hit enter.
2. In filter enter margin.
3. For all terms which looks similar to print_margin_bottom , print_margin_top , print_unwritable_margin_bottom , print_extra_margin and so on, double click them and enter value of 0 or 0.0
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June 25th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
When using PATH_INFO , the urls of codeignitor apps or your custom MVC looks like this
index.php/controlller/method/param1/param2
or
/controlller/method/param1/param2
Now if the parameters contain a forward slash then you would urlencode it as :
index.php/controlller/method/par%2Fam1/param2
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June 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
To enable mod expires on ubuntu karmic koala :
sudo a2enmod headers
sudo a2enmod expires
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
If you internal server error or ExpiresActive not allowed here
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May 27th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
I was writing a small database application using Java and Apache Derby in Netbeans. Soon, felt that the speed should be improved as it was slow compared to a c++ or python app.
There are a few tweaks which could give significant improvement in the speed of a swing gui application.
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May 26th, 2010 | Posted in Java | 1 Comment
Scriptlance is a popular freelance portal where buyers and sellers meet together to work on projects.
Scriptlance has the escrow system which aims at providing sellers with protection against frauds by clients.
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May 26th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
FFmpeg can be installed easily from synaptic
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Some useful ffmpeg commands :
1. convert mpeg to flv
ffmpeg -i /path/to/movie.mpeg -ar 22050 -ab 32 -f flv -b 500000 -s 480x360 -y movie.flv
2. convert mp3 to flv
ffmpeg -i /path/to/track.mp3 -f mp3 -ab 64000 -ar 22050 myfile.mp3
3. convert mpeg to flv with mp3
ffmpeg -i /path/to/movie.mpeg -ar 22050 -ab 64000 -acodec libmp3lame -f flv -b 1000000 -s 480x360 -y movie.flv
-i denotes the input file path
-acodec – denotes the audio codec , libmp3lame in this case , can be installed from synaptic
-s the dimension of final movie e.g. 480×360
-ab audio bitrate of output e.g. 64000
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May 25th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
To access other partitions as writable execute the command.
sudo chmod -Rv a+w /media/disk
where directory /media/disk is the path to your partition.
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May 10th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Recently Paypal has faced some issues with RBI which has resulted in withdrawals being reversed etc. Moneybookers is a service similar to Paypal. Moneybookers is available as a withdrawal option in Scriptlance , Getafreelancer , Odesk.
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April 21st, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) is a analog circuit simulator.
To install on Ubuntu get the .deb files from :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ngspice/files/
Look for 17.binary.64bit directory.
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April 14th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments