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Random Thoughts · 6d ago

How to: Gitorious and Sendfile for tarball download with Nginx

On Apache Gitorious uses mod_xsendfile to push the tarballs for download. Unfortunately this is not directly compatible with Nginx because Nginx uses a similar but different implementation. However the is still a way to make this feature work with Nginx. To do so you first have to edit on of the git
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Random Thoughts · 3M ago

Spell check in Evernote

I find Evernote a very useful tool, especially the ability to sync the notes taken in one device with every device you own. If you for example happen to get an idea when on the go, or just before sleep usually your mobile phone is easily accessible, so you can write the idea and save [...]
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Random Thoughts · 5M ago

Ubuntu 10.10 Server with Gitorious and Redmine

The server Installation To start go to http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/download and get the ISO image of ubuntu server 11.10 (64bit or 32bit depending on the architecture of your machine) then either burn the ISO on an empty disk or create a bootable USB Flash drive, using either Linux Live US
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Random Thoughts · 7M ago

Redmine SUB-URI and Apache configuration

While trying to setup Redmine in a sub-uri I run across an issue will trying to setup apache. Passenger would display the following error: No such file or directory – config/environment.rb while trying to access the Redmine webpage. After trying a few suggestions on the issue I managed to get Redmin
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Random Thoughts · 7M ago

Use Resource files with Eclipse and wxWidgets

While developing with Eclipse  C++ CDT and wxWidgets & MinGW I run along an issue. In Windows wxWidgets requires an MS resource (.rc) file to be compiled along with the project. The file contains the location to the application icon along with an include to the wx resource file. One issue I came acr
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Random Thoughts · 8M ago

Changing author in git

While transferring my code repositories from SVN to git, I completely forgot to change the author name in the commits, so the wrong user appeared. I could possibly just reconvert the svn repository to git to fix the issue but since I have been trying to merge the the SVN generated git with a new [..
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Random Thoughts · 1Y ago

Skype Now Playing Plugin for MusicBee

Here is a simple now Skype Now playing plugin I created for MusicBee using C#. The settings panel of the plugin looks like the following screenshot. The tags supported at the moment are <Artist>, <AlbumArtist>, <Title>, <Year> and <Album> and they have to be like above in the textbox in order for th
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Random Thoughts · 1Y ago

Xbutton navigation, in integrated browser with c#

I have been trying for a while to find a way with the application I am developing to navigate Forward or Back using only the xbuttons (4th and 5th button of a 5 button mouse) with the integrated browser. After spending some time trying various things I found a solution posted in one of the [...]
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Random Thoughts · 1Y ago

iPod scrobbling and missing scrobbles

Since the time I got my 160GB iPod classic I started scrobbling, sending all the songs played while on move to my last.fm profile. However since the beginning I had an issue once in while, or many times in the row, when I was syncing iPod with iTunes all my plays where missing. I tried [...]
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Random Thoughts · 1Y ago

Server Maintenance

On the 31st of January was a maintenance day for my server. It started as a check to make sure that the non restarting after a sudden one second power lose issue was due to faulty PSU… I just confirmed my suspicions. With the test PSU the issue was gone and the computer was powering [...]
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