Increase Totem Buffer in Ubuntu

gedit-editor > apps > totem > buffer-size | network-buffer-threshold

Change buffer-size = 10 & network-buffer-threshold = 10

totem

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Hack SeaMonkey to enable Socks Proxy in Ubuntu

Stack: SeaMonkey 1.1.15 in Ubuntu 9.04

Symptom: Socks Proxy is set, but doesn’t work

Open SeaMoney > about:config in URL bar > type

network.proxy.type

then set the value = 2

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cups-pdf: Could not open the file /home/you/Desktop/273_.pdf

Installed cups-pdf in Ubuntu 9.04 and changed the following in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf

Out ${HOME}/Desktop

Restarted /etc/init.d/cups, still received

Could not open the file /home/{you}/Desktop/273_.pdf

in /var/log/cups/error_log

The solution is, in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf, change to

Out ${HOME}/PDF

and create PDF directory under your home directory

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Disable Update Manager Auto-launch in Ubuntu

Disable in gconf-editor

auto_launch

Or in command line:

To disable >
gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

To enable >
gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch true
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Virtualized Windows Hangs when Shutdown on VirtualBox 3.0

Stack

Host OS > Ubuntu 9.04

Guest OS > Windows XP

VirtualBox > 3.0.0

Hardware > ThinkPad T43, single CPU, 2G memory

Symptom: Windows XP hangs during shutdown

Resolution: Change the setting as the followings

VT – Enabled

Nested Paging – Disabled

ACPI – Enabled

IO ACPI – Disabled

PAE – Disabled

virt_console1virt_acpi0virt_pae02

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Fix Virtualized Windows XP on VirtualBox 3.0 over Ubuntu 9.04

Configuration:

  • Host OS > Ubuntu 9.04
  • Guest OS > Windows XP
  • VirutalBox > 3.0.0

Symptom: Windows XP crashes very frequently and the dump shows

virtbox_crash3

As well as the message >

DRIVER_UNLOADED_WITHOUT_CANCELLING_PENDING_OPERATIONS

Solution:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Processor

Or

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Intelppm

And changing the ‘Start’ value to ’4′.

The detail @ http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc…

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Innovative ways to use social software in combination

Collaboration cross firewall: I started to get involved in a Cloud project and had to travel to Shanghai every week in past one month. While out of my office during trip, or boarding @ airport, or sitting in cab, I’m out of the company firewall! That means I can’t access BlogCentral. My brain must “stop” in front of firewall. If I want to keep it thinking, I’d switch to public Web2.0 places.
Ease of combination: Have you used Ping.fm ? Or you may ask what Ping.fm is? In short, it’s a hub of collaboration and a practice of innovation. Let’s see a scenario: In a cab, I see a scene. I capture a photo by using my Nokia E71 smartphone (iPhone works too). After shooting, a small icon of mail prompts. Click mail icon, I’m in mail mode with the capture picture as an attachment. I pick an email address from contact list. Such email address is like vfr45t@ping.fm that was randomly assigned by Ping.fm . Whatever message sent to such account will automatically be updated into my accounts @ Twitter, Facebook, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, MySpace, Blogger, Identi.ca, WordPress, Flickr, FriendFeed, Mashable, etc, you name it… All these could be finished within one minute. (Security is another topic though. I’d very carefully post the data in this very web2.0 way.)
Performance: WordPress is good. Working on company’s BlogCentral is a challenge. I lean to write @ twitter.com as I’m lazy and don’t have to write much :-P

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