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[HowTo] Stop phpmyadmin from asking username, password in localhost

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:22:32 +0000

Yesterday, I showed you how you can keep local installation of phpmyadmin from logging you out every few minutes. I took one more step and edited configuration to not ask me username, password at all. Now phpmyadmin never asks me for mysql username and password. Keep in mind if you follow this tutorial anyone would [...] Related posts:

[SOLVED] Error “undefined reference to `libiconv_open’” while compiling

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:09:37 +0000

I was trying to compile sphinx server from source but I go the following errors on executing make undefined reference to `libiconv_open’ undefined reference to `libiconv’ undefined reference to `libiconv_close’ To fix the error, you can compile without iconv (multiple encoding support) support. Use the following commands to compile. You can add more parameters as [...] Related posts:

Undo recent facebook style changes

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:02:12 +0000

Recently facebook made its font smaller. It worried lots of people with weaker eye sight. The font looks ugly as well. They reduced it all the way to 11px from 13px. And changed its color to #000 from #333. I made a quick greasemonkey script as it works cross-browser to fix the issue until facebook [...] Related posts:

[Solved] Subtitles not being displayed in VLC in Ubuntu

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:36:23 +0000

I had this problem where subtitles were not being shown in VLC. No matter what I did, it just wouldn’t display. I reinstalled VLC but still it had problems. So I removed all the vlc config files to reset the settings and fix the problem. rm -rf ~/.config/vlc That fixed it. Cheers! Related posts:[Solved] apt-get [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Block and Unblock friends on facebook

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:13:15 +0000

A lot of my friends have been asking this to me so I’ll just go ahead and make a blog post for everyone. According to facebook: If you block someone, they will not be able to find you in a Facebook search, see your profile, or interact with you through Facebook channels (such as Wall [...] Related posts:

[HOWTO] Send emails(using mail function) from localhost in PHP through msmtp (using gmail account) on Linux

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:08:27 +0000

There’ve been lots of times when I wanted to use the mail() function on my local server. I am sure lots of you would’ve been wanting it too but most of you would’ve settled for PHPMailer or just used a web host to test the code instead. I myself had been doing the same until [...] Related posts:

[HOWTO] Install Opera 10.6 via PPA in Ubuntu

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:05:41 +0000

Opera 10.6 which was released yesterday is currently one of the fastest browsers. It has beaten Chrome in javascript speed test. It also features better support for HTML5, WebM video support. You can now install it on Ubuntu via PPA. Add the PPA in your repository: sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free" >> [...] Related posts:

[Solved] Unable to enumerate USB device (Disabling ehci_hcd)

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:24:17 +0000

Some hardware just don’t work with ehci_hcd on Karmic Koala. My memory stick from transcend refused to work no matter what I did. After plugging the device nothing happened, doing dmesg showed me the following error: Apr 18 10:59:04 dpac-laptop kernel: [73668.388060] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 Apr [...] Related posts:

Type in Devanagari in any field on any site

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:07:37 +0000

Now, you can type directly in Devangari script on any text field on any website. Thanks to http://code.google.com/p/t13n/ Just drag the link below to your bookmarks bar: Drag this link to your bookmarks bar How to use After a webpage loads, just click on the bookmarklet to enable it. After enabling it, you can type [...] No related posts.

[HowTo] Optimize Mozilla Firefox for better performance

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:35:00 +0000

Firefox is getting very popular lately, mainly due to its customizability. I use firefox as my main browser and use all sorts of addons which help me in web-development. These addons make my firefox hungry but I can’t do without them. So, instead I tweaked around some settings in firefox which made it much responsive [...] Related posts: