How to change the mode for simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese mode in ibus-libpinyin? What is the shortcut like “Ctrl+.” for switching full width or half width punctuation. Use shortcut “Ctrl + Shift + F”. In ibus-pinyin version 1.3.7, this shortcut is added: 2010-05-28 ibus-pinyin 1.3.7 stable release Add Ctrl + Shift + F to…
How to detect memory leaks of C programs in Linux? I also have access to the source code of the program. There are many posts related to this: Easy and quick tools on Linux (while not very accurate): http://blog.thewebsitepeople.org/2011/03/linux-memory-leak-detection/ Valgrind: manual and a tutorial. gperftools has the Google Heap Profiler which can checks for memory…
How to @import a css file, such as for an open fonts hosted by Google, only for wide screens, such as with px of larger than 846? A piece of css that you can use: @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300italic,400italic,700italic,300,400,700,900) (min-width:846px) This import Open Sans fonts for only screens of at least 846 px.
How to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 through the network? The tool for Fedora to upgrade the distribution is FedUp. Check this page for how to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3F Be sure to check the bugs in Fedora 20 before the upgrading: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs#Upgrade_issues Generally, it contains 3 steps: Preparation # yum…
What other mobile messengers like WhatsApp in the market? Messneger Apps focusing on mobile phones WhatsApp: http://www.whatsapp.com/ WeChat: http://www.wechat.com/en/ Kik: http://kik.com/ Kakao Talk: http://www.kakao.com/talk/en LINE: http://line.me/en/ Other “general” messengers that also have mobile clients Google Hangouts: http://www.google.com/ /learnmore/hangouts/ Facebook Messenger: https://www.facebook.com/mobile/messenger Skype: http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-mobile/
This tutorial introduces how to exclude certain repositories in yum. Excluding certain repositories is needed usually. One example may be when you have several repositories that have the same package and you only want the one from a certain repository. For my situation, I choose to exclude the google-chrome and other repositories from Google when…
How to set Google Chrome’s proxy settings in command line on Linux? I am using Google Chrome on Linux and start it by google-chrome. How can I set the proxy using the command line? It tell me that my desktop is not supported but I can set the proxy in command line. Use the –proxy-server…
How to add Google Custom Search to Question2answer? I do not want to create / edit / use a advanced theme. What I prefer is a plugin to replace the default search module with Google Custom Search. Thanks! Check out the Google Custom Search plugin: Google Custom Search plugin This site use it and it…
How to Sync the Contacts in My iPhone with Google Gmail Account? To sync your Google contacts, one good method is using CardDAV. You’ll be able to edit, add, and remove contacts from your device and keep them in sync with your Google Gmail account. It is straightforward: Open the Settings application on your device….
Chrome reads the proxy settings from Gnome correctly. However, when I run Chrome under KDE, the proxy integration is broken: In the settings of Chrome, clicking the “Change proxy settings” opens the KDE proxy setting dialog correctly (the command kcmshell4 proxy actually is executed). However, after the proxy settings are made, Chrome does not read…
What are the SQL layer solution over NoSQL databases such as key/value stores? Phoenix: A SQL layer on HBase: https://github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix They also show some performance results: https://github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix/wiki/Performance F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google’s Ad Business: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html With F1, we have built a novel hybrid system that combines the scalability, fault tolerance, transparent sharding,…
Hi , Thank you for your recommendation for removing the canonical link for the forum page only. However, I am am not able to find the following code in the wpf.class.php and was hoping you let us know where we can find this class so that we can modify it accordingly. (Does -1260 refer to…
How to enable single sign-in for social accounts for question2answer? These servers are required: Google, Facebook, Twitter, OpenID. This site moved from Loginza to Question2Answer Open Login which works like a charm. I use the Loginza and it works very well. For Q2A, SLonoed wrote a nice plugin for loginza. How to use it: Download…
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The built-in canonical URL function since WordPress 2.9 is great. But under some situation, it is not needed. For example, all the Mingle Forum threads’ canonical URL is set to the URL of the page that contains the [mingleforum] shortcode, which, of course, is wrong. How to diabled it? We can disabled WordPress’s Built-in Canonical…
How to enable the author information in Google search results as shown for many posts? As a post writer, we may want our authorship information to appear in search results. To do this, we need a Google+ Profile with a good, recognizable headshot as the profile photo. Then, verify authorship of our content by associating…
What are the Google Chrome keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Linux and Windows? Keyboard shortcuts of Chrome can make it easier to control the browser and save our time. Here are a list of commonly used shortcuts: Ctrl+T Opens a new tab. Press Ctrl and click a link. Or click a link with your middle…
 How to prevent Chrome from closing itself after I close the last tab? This is a feature I want to have.  This is a feature I want to have. Last Tab Standing plugin plays the trick: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/last-tab-standing/dlopnnfglheodcopccdllffcijjeenkj If the last tab is closed, this extension stops Chrome from closing and instead opens the New…
Any good tools to synchronize home directories on Linux boxes? Many have several PC/laptops and consequently many home directories. There is home directory synchronizing problem. unison is a good tool to do this: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#rshmeth http://www.watzmann.net/blog/2009/02/my-homedirs-in-unison.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/index.shtml#File%20Synchronization Useful script: $ unison -batch -ui text ./ /mnt/homebak/zma/ In text user interface, synchronizing two directories in batch mode…
Quick links to some useful software on Windows including Web browsers, Video/audio player and ssh/scpsftp/vnc tools for connecting to Linux. ssh/scp/sftp/vnc for connecting to Linux For Linux users, it is sometimes unavoidably to use Windows. With Windows, the Linux users will need to connect to Linux for some tasks. Some general software are needed. The…