Posts tagged Howto

Call Forwarding for iPhone: How to Set up or Disable Call Forwarding in iOS

By David Yang,
Call forwarding is useful if you are expected to be unavailable for receiving calls or lose cell phone coverage for some time. Call forwarding is not something that is "new" to modern phones. It is a feature which is invented in 1960s (the patent expired in 1980) of some telephone switching systems. But with iPhone/iOS, there is a convenient call forwarding feature in iOS for you to set up call forwarding to forward calls to a landline or other phone by its number or disable the call forwarding. » Read more

Reference: Special HTML Characters

By David Yang,
HTML supports many characters/symbols such as mathematical symbols, and currency symbols. They are not present on a normal keyboard. And some of these characters may have special meanings for formatting text. To add such characters / symbols to an HTML text, you can use an HTML entity name or an entity number in decimal or hexadecimal. This post list many special Characters in HTML as a friendly reference. » Read more

Basic Knowledge of HTML and Canvas

By Colin,
From a small business owner, a blogger, a student or individual with a personal project, the need to create websites has never been more prominent. Having a basic understanding of HTML and canvas knowledge can be helpful, and it is simple to master. The thought of learning to code and programming may seem a long and daunting task, but some people may be surprised to know that it need not be as scary as it sounds. » Read more

How to Install Paravirtualized CentOS 7 DomU on Xen

By Eric Z Ma,
This post introduces how to install a paravirtualized CentOS 7 DomU on Xen. The very common way of installing DomU does not work for CentOS 7. A little trick to set the repository and the network used by the VM should be used by adding a setting strings to the “extra=” field for this VM. To install the DomU VM, first download the pxeboot images from CentOS’s official website at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/. » Read more

How to Compile and Install Linux Kernel from the Source Code in an Existing Linux OS

By Eric Z Ma,
Building Linux kernel may sound a complex and geek-only thing. However, as Linux kernel itself has much less depended tools/packages compared to other software packages, it is quite easy to compile, build and install a Linux kernel from the source code in an existing Linux OS. Building Linux kernel is needed if you need to build a specific Linux kernel or update your drivers for a kernel by yourself. » Read more

Make Better Decisions for Your Businesses with Data Visualization

By Joseph Macwan,
Header In today’s time, data visualization has become a significant part of the success story of an organization. With the help of right techniques, visualizing data can reveal insights which the management staff can use in their decision-making in order to make sound data-driven decisions. Mapping software is among the robust data visualization tools that you can avail today. With maps, you can find stories, trends, and insights that cannot be found in spreadsheets. » Read more

Vim Tutorial for Beginners: vimtutor

By Eric Z Ma,
There are many Vim tutorials and Vim tips on the Web. However, I find the vimtutor provides the best tutorial among those so far as I found on the Web while the vimtutor seems usually reachable from a terminal which is not obviously known to Vim beginners who are usually Linux beginners too. This page shows the content of the Vim tutorial from the command vimtutor in a web page which is especially easier for Vim beginners to get and learn. » Read more

x-data-plane feature in QEMU/KVM

By Weiwei Jia,
Abstract In systems, sometimes, we use one global lock to keep synchronization among different threads. This principle also happens in QEMU/KVM (http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page) system. However, this may cause lock contention problem. The performance/scalability of whole system will be decreased. In order to solve this problem in QEMU/KVM, x-data-plane feature is designed/implemented, which the high-level idea is “I/O requests are handled by dedicated IOThread rather than QEMU main loop threads so that it will not have lock contention among I/O threads and other QEMU main loop threads”. » Read more

Filter Salutation in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

By Ethan Millar,
CRM
In this tutorial, Microsoft Dynamics CRM India experts will teach you how to filter salutation based on Gender field in MS CRM. You can follow the step-by-step guide shared in this post to avail the results. Description- According to the requirement we need to filter salutation based on gender in contact entity. For this we need to create two new field having Datatype(option set). » Read more

Dynamics CRM Consultants Explain How To Filter Sub Branch Lookup Field Value in CRM

By jameswarner,
In this blog Dynamics CRM consultants are sharing a step-by-step guide to explain how to filter another lookup field value based on one Lookup field value. In this Lead entity, they are having two fields Branch and Sub Branch and you will learn how they filter Subbranch based on Branch field. Based on one Lookup field value, how to filter another lookup field value. » Read more

How to convert Managed Solution into Unmanaged for On-Premise CRM organisation?

By jameswarner,
Solution is very important part of Dynamics CRM. In order to deploy your customization, solution is the only bridge which help you to achieve your goal. There are two types of solutions available in CRM: Managed and Unmanaged. Managed Solutions: This is the solutions that you can import and publish only. You neither export it nor you can make any changes in it. » Read more

How migration thread works inside of Linux Kernel

By Weiwei Jia,
Abstract In computer systems, resources have to be balanced so that the performance will be better based on the same hardware. In Linux Kernel system, we will see some migration kernel threads running as daemons to do this kind of jobs as follows. In this article, we will discuss how Linux Kernel balances its hardware/software resources (NOTE: this article is based on Linux Kernel 4.7 and other versions may have some differences). » Read more

Essential Gnome Shell Extensions for Gnome 3 Users

By Eric Z Ma,
Gnome Shell has a clean design. But many users want to get more from the desktop environment. Gnome 3’s extension system can help users customize the Gnome Shell’s look greatly. In this post, we summarize 6 extensions we considered essential to make Gnome Shell great. AlternateTab ∞ Make Alt-Tab “classic” instead of grouping windows by application. It substitutes Alt-Tab with a window based switcher. » Read more

How to Install 32-bit Wine on CentOS 7

By Eric Z Ma,
Since version 7, RHEL has only x86-64 versions. The same thing happens to CentOS 7. In CentOS 7/EPEL, there is only package for Wine x86-64. However, many Windows .exe files are 32-bit. Even there are 64-bit versions for some software, their installation file is 32-bit. And for some certain software such as Office 2007, 32-bit wine is preferred. In this post, we will check how to install 32-bit Wine 1.8 on CentOS 7. » Read more

Additional Repositories for CentOS Linux

By Eric Z Ma,
CentOS is a super solid Linux distro. However, its default repository’s packages are limited compared to Fedora. Even Fedora needs some additional repositories to have software packages for daily usage, such as MPlayer, ffmpeg. Fortunately, some community maintained repositories provides these software. In this post, we introduce theses additional common repositories and how to install them into CentOS. For the installation method, we use CentOS 7 as an example. » Read more

How to Change Systemd Boot Target on Linux

By Eric Z Ma,
Many Linux distros, such as RHEL/CentOS 7, Fedora, Ubuntu 16, are now using systemd instead of init as the init system. It is common for Linux users to set Linux to boot to “GUI” or “Text” mode. The old way of changing ‘/etc/inittab’ for choosing Linux runlevels is not working for sytemd. This post will introduce the way for systemd systems to select the “runlevels”. » Read more

How to Change Linux Account Password Through SSH: A Beginners’ Tutorial

By Eric Z Ma,
People are sometimes given access to Linux/Unix and asked to change their initial passwords. But for beginners, changing a Linux/Unix password is not an easy task, especially when there is only SSH log on allowed to the Linux/Unix server. This post introduces how to change password of user USER on host HOST remotely using SSH. linux-passwd.png Steps are as follows. Note: you will need to replace HOST and USER with the actual username and hostname you are using. » Read more

How to Force Linux to Unmount a Filesystem Reporting “device is busy”

By Eric Z Ma,
Linux may report “device is busy” when we try to umount a filesystem. This behavior is reasonable as it can help us avoid data loss by disallowing unmouting a filesystem when it is being used. But for situations when we are sure there is something wrong happened or we care not data lost such as a NFS mounting failed because that the NFS server is dead and will never be back. » Read more

How to Disable and Enable Laptop Keyboard in Linux

By Eric Z Ma,
Attaching a USB keyboard to a laptop is common when using a laptop because a normal keyboard may provide a more convenient typing experience. The laptop keyboard is not used in these situations. However, the laptop keyboard may still be touched by accident. In this post, we will discuss how to disable and enable the laptop keyboard in Linux. I will also provide scripts ready for you to directly use them for disabling/enabling the laptop keyboard. » Read more

How to Automatically Move Junk Emails to The Junk Folder in Thunderbird

By Eric Z Ma,
Junk Emails, or Email spams, are annoying and they cost time to deal with. While they are something we need to cope with, we can use tools to help us. Thunderbird has an adaptive junk filter that can learn from user’s actions to identify junk messages. I find that Thunderbird default settings are not fully configured as I expected to make fully use of its features. » Read more