It took me quite many hours. There are many posts online but at the same time many of them lead to dead ends. As mentioned in this post, the instruction described on help.ubuntu.com allows one to setup custom key but at the same time leaves a big security hole on ssh. Because everyone can ssh to…
I used to use Samba to share folders between my laptop and my desktop. It works fine until 10.10 that Ubuntu decided to act crazy and screw the whole mount.cifs thing. I still managed to share the folders for a while after some tweaks with /etc/fstab. But today it is just not working anymore. I…
I am a total newbie to GWT/GAE framework. I was playing and modifying an objectify sample code myself last night and get into a “deferred binding failure” error. What I did is to add another entity class and extend classes PersistentService, PersistentServiceImp, and PersistentSerivceAsync to persist my data. I first ran the code as Web Application….
Okay. I found this so-called opacify feature extremely annoying (I’ll just call it retarded to show my anger towards it). Basically, it makes any other overlapping windows to fade out from the window currently moused over with. It doesn’t sound so annoying but you will know if you use it for an hour or two….
I watched couple horror flicks (devil, let me in) the last couple days. But they gave me far less unresting feeling than after watching 12 and holding. The film was in my netflix queue for some time and I just found time (determination) to watch it. I can’t even remember why it was in my…
One thing I really hate about youtube (I think many others do too) is the crazy 10 minute limit. I know it as recently extended to 15 minutes but so what! But to be fair, even with this limitation, youtube is still probably the best site for video sharing. It is especially annoying to me…
An annoying change I felt for 10.10 is that it doesn’t allow normal user to mount network drive by default anymore. I’m not sure why this is a sensible change. Maybe it is more secure for somebody but for me, it is just a horrible inconvenience. A simple workaround for me is to add the…
It has been addressed in many posts such as this. I include this just as a personal note. The random decision by Ubuntu is quite a bit annoying sometimes, even though I still love it…
Measuring Measures suggests a cool trick to download the lectures from videolecture.net. Below is the verbatim of the original: Not to fear, it turns out that you can just use a couple parameters to mplayer at the command line. example: mplayer -dumpstream mms://velblod2.ijs.si/2009/pascal2/ssll09_canberra/reid_leth/ssll09_reid_leth_01.wmv -dumpfile /home/bradford/lectures/reid_learning_theory1.avi
I tried to split an MP4 video using avidemux with no luck. No matter how I did it, I couldn’t get the audio in sync. Finally, I found yamb and it worked good. Even though I need to use virtualbox to run it.