A php application on a cpanel server kept throwing this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function pcntl_fork() in /path/blah.php on line 5 The fix requires recompiling php with –enable-pcntl Fortunately cpanel offers the Easy Apache script. The bad part is that it doesn’t have an option for pcntl. So you have to specify it...
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Recursively remove digikam’s xmp embeded tags
Because digikam made a mess of the tags I started to add to my pictures I decided to start from scratch. Note that I tried to get the max and I had set to write tags both to .xmp sidecar files and inside the image files. I also use the mysql backend. One of...
Fixing a self pressing button on an Asus VW202SR monitor
Well, today instead of working I had the pleasure of fixing the monitor The monitor is an older Asus VW202 SR that my wife uses connected to the laptop. I tried everything else (power cycling, another signal cable, another computer) but it turns out to be really the button. The issue manifested itself by...
cbnet Ping Optimizer is killing a site
Some wise soul decided many moons ago that installing the aforementioned plugin on a site I host. The wise soul is long gone (admining websites for ngo’s as a volunteer is no fun to many ) but the site was getting more and more sluggish lately. I decided to clean a bit the many...
Cadsoft Eagle on Slackware Current 64bit
I want to start building some new electronics projects and I wanted to use some tool to build my schematics. Even if not open source Cadsoft’s Eagle seems to be the de-facto standard between hobbyists. Unfortunately trying to run the setup on Slackware gives the errors regarding to /…/bin/eagle: error while loading shared libraries:...
New AdSense interface language
Though not my native language I like all my software in English. It always sounds weird to me to see it different. Ever since AdSense upgraded the looks it switched to Romanian. Today I wanted to tackle this: I went to Home->Account settings->Display Language It was already English US Well, it won’t be the...
Concatenate multiple *.vcf files into one for importing into gMail
I have a secondary phone that is running Android. My main phone is still a Nokia N900 for which I gave up trying to sync contacts with gmail. Two options basically exist for n900 none of which works for me: using MFE which works from time to time use syncevolution which invariably screws my...
Optimizing all mysql tables (from all databases)
You want to optimize mysql tables from time to time in order to reduce fragmentation. Here’s an easy way to do it automatically (put it in a script and run it from cron for example) View Code BASH1 mysqlcheck -Aop -h hostname -u user -pPASSWORD What all those mean: –all-databases, -A; Check all tables...
Clear Windows 7″Recent Items”/ jumplists
I hate windows’s jump lists. If you read this you probably hate them too They are stored as hidden files in a, you guessed, hidden directory. You can’t browse to it but you can type it in RUN or windows explorer location bar: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations You will see there a bunch of files with long...
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