Formatting and Backing Up Here is a checklist. BackUp your emails. Your desktop items Your favourites Work Files / My Documents / My Received Files Partitioning always comes in handy as when you format, you can choose to only format your local c: drive. A single harddisk can be partitioned so it holds c: , […]

Installing RT5370 RT5370 is a very small usb wireless wifi transmitter. It comes with a default windows driver, which is unfortunate if you have linux installed. To enable this usb wireless transmitter just follow these steps. I hope it helps someone as it was quite problematic for myself. goto http://www.ralinktech.com (actual drive page: http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/support.php?sn=501 Download […]

Did something wrong on EC2? dont panic. If you have a snapshot of the EC2 EBS (Elastic Block Store), you can easily restore this in under 2 minutes. Goto your snapshots and create a volume from the snapshot Go to the instance and stop the instance running Detach the EBS from the instance Attach the […]

This is a mac update PASV problem which wasted almost 5 hours of my life. PASV is passive mode in FTP. If you have a PASV ftp server you need to connect to, you will need your client machine (your mac) to allow such connection. In an event that you update your mac, your mac […]

Energy AwarenessCurrently energy in the form of electricity is stored by the following methods. Why electricity? The main reason is its versatility to convert to other forms of energy, like light, heat, movement makes it the best candidate. Another reason is that we can effectively store electricity. Nuclear Wind turbine Hydroelectric generation Bio Gas – […]

CloudConsume A publication of mine and a great team of peers. IGI Publications: http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/evolving-developments-grid-cloud-computing/61985 CloudJet We demonstrate the effectiveness of raw access of remote file without buffering. The second instance is wrapped with SockJet technology which highlights no code change but improves transmission over 10 folds for distance between Beijing and London. Development: Prof. Frank Wang (UKent), Dr. […]

Had a shock this morning when I used cherokee marketplace with installed wordpress. The shock came in when i edited the wordpress > header file with the built in editor. On save. it practically took the site down….Lesson learnt, do not use the wordpress editor to edit header files or code files. What i did […]

There are a few methods to disable xscreensaver. Disabling XScreenSaver You can disable the screensaver directly from “run” option Either run the command: xscreensaver-command -exit Installing Caffeine opening terminal running this line: > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:caffeine-developers/ppa > sudo apt-get upgrade > sudo apt-get install caffeine adding new application called caffeine then launch it via applications when […]

Note: this procedure requires an .img file that you will be required to create from the .iso file you download. TIP: Drag and Drop a file from Finder to Terminal to ‘paste’ the full path without typing and risking type errors (this is in MacOSX). Download the desired file (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu) Open the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/ or query Terminal […]

Hunting for simple CMSes is quite a task. If you do a search over the internet for CMS, all the results are mostly heavy industrial cmses. As flatfiles, xml or SQLite database types become popular, we wonder why no such CMSes based on files exist. In fact, they do. GetSimpleCMS and WolfCMS, are 2 of […]