The download page of Hadoop http://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html only contains several recent release packages. I would like to download some old release packages such as Hadoop 2.5.0 which is not available anymore on the release page. Where to download a copy of the old release? You can download the old release packages of Hadoop on the http://archive.apache.org…
I am renewing my SSL key for my websites. The CA requests a CSR. I have my private key. How to generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) from a private SSL key? You can generate a CSR from your private key with openssl: openssl req -new -key ssl.key -out req.pem Here, ssl.key is your private…
How to debug the media print view set by @media print {} in CSS of Web pages in Firefox? In firefox, after opening the Web page, First, hit “Shift + F2” to open the “Developer Toolbar” at the bottom. Second, in the “Developer Toobar”, input media emulate print and Firefox will show the print view…
Firefox on iOS can view bookmarks from PC. But how to sync the bookmarks made on iOS to PC? It seems the bookmarks made in Firefox on iPhone is local only. No, you can’t yet. Bookmarks saved on your iOS devices will not sync to your PC at current (by Nov. 25, 2015) version of…
Where to search and download some free and nice images to be used on my websites? The best one for searching the free images is still Google. Google Image Search has a “Advanced Image Search” where you can choose the usage rights. Choose the “free to use, share, or modify, even commercially” option will lead…
From the opening window by JavaScript window.open(), we can pass info to the opened by hash. But how to pass results back from the opened window to the openning window in JavaScript? Assume in the opener window, a JavaScript variable is defined like var exchangeVar = ”; In the opened window, you can update the…
How to capture the close event of an opened window by window.open() in JavaScript? This JavaScript code works well for me: var newwindow = window.open(“/newwindow.html”); newwindow.onbeforeunload = function () { // processing event here alert(“new window closed”); } Note that after the callback function is executed, the newwindow is closed.
How to open a URL in a new window in JavaScript? For example, to open a new window to browse “http://www.systutorials.com“. Open the URL in a new window: url = “http://www.systutorials.com”; window.open(url); Some browser will open the window in a new tab depending on the configuration. If you want to force the browser to open…
How to send POST request in JavaScript from the users’ browsers? One easy method I find is to use the jQuery library’s post() method. Here is one example that send POST request with data “file: filename” to the “/fileview” URL on the server and show the replied data: $.post(“/fileview”, {file: filename}, function (data) { //…
How to advertise a different router/gateway ip via DHCP in OpenWRT? In general, you need to configure the DHCP option with code 3 (router). (A list of all options can be found in http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/bootp/options.htm ) For example, to advise the gateway IP 192.168.1.2, you will send this option: “3,192.168.1.2” Now, for OpenWRT, you have 2…
Suggestions on some good free images hosting services on the Web? Two good free image hosting websites: Imgur: http://imgur.com/ Postimage.org: http://postimage.org/
I have a Linux web server with Apache (httpd). How to host multiple websites on Apache? To host websites www.example1.com and www.example2.com on a single node with Apache2 on a single IP, you can use VirtualHost as follows. Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add the following lines: NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/example1.com ServerName www.example1.com # Other…
How to allow websites to use .htaccess files in Apache2 web servers? The AllowOverride directive controls this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#allowoverride To allow AllowOverride in a directory, add the following rules to the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf or similar configuration file for your apache installation: <Directory “/var/www/www.example.com”> Options FollowSymLinks # # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files….
Hi there, Quite recently I’ve created a native app (webview app)of my wordpress website and this wordpress site is using responsive theme as well. Now I want to publish this app at play store. The problem is that Adsense are not allowed to be shown in a native android app. So I want to know…
Windows 7 repetitively tried to update but failed every time I boot Windows 7. It will reboot automatically several times itself. How should I fix it? First, you need to identify which update causes the problem. You can find this in the Updates control panel tool as follows. After identifying the failed package (e.g. KB3033929…
Hi, I noticed that your site serves AdSense ads through BuySellAds and it is not in an iframe. By default, BuySellAds puts the backfill ads in an iframe. Puting AdSense ads in iframe is violation of the terms. How do you make BuySellAds not put AdSense ads in an iframe? Thanks! To inline the ads…
I use curl to send requests to remote servers like following command. curl http://example.com/send –date-urlencode “data=hello” However, it is blocked by the network proxy squid in some networks with message like (some info anonymized with “…”): ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved POST /… HTTP/1.1 Proxy-Authorization: Basic … User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;) Host: ……
Gmail’s SMTP is convenient. You “sender” needs not to be always your Gmail address (but the emails will include your Gmail address in the header “send by”). I am wondering how many emails at maximum can I send each day through Gmail’s SMTP. Here there a nice recent list of the sending limits of the…
I recently changes the media aspects. The problem is that the existing thumbnails are not changed to the new aspects. How to make WordPress regenerate the thumbnails after I changing the media aspects? The “Regenerate Thumbnails” works like a charm for me: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ . It allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail…
How to redirect WordPress search query to Google CSE? You can configure Google CSE to read the query variable (by default, it is q). Then, in your WordPress’s .htaccess file, add these 2 lines RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^s=(.*)$ RewriteRule ^ https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=xyz&q=%1 [R,L] Here, “https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=xyz” is your CSE’s public URL or the webpage that contains the Google…