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I had to install PHPMyAdmin today and I encountered a little glitch. So here's me documenting it. It is assumed that you've already installed and setup your LAMP stack. If not, Step 0: Installing LAMP Stack $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install tasksel && sudo tasksel install lamp-server Step 1: Install PHPMyAdmin on Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get update ...
If you've upgraded to Chromium 30, and suddenly get fully loaded, but blank (not rendered), pages, rejoice! I have the fix! You need to back up your data with a Google account before you try this fix! So, with that warning in place, let's dive right in: Close Chromium (if it is running) Remove: ~/.config/chromium and ~/.cache/chromium Start Chromium. Sign ...
You are able to transfer files from your computer to your mobile device using bluetooth, but are unable to do it the other way around (Mobile device to computer), you get a "Unable to Connect" or "File sending failed" or some other similar error message and you are puzzled. Well, the solution is as simple as tweaking a single setting ...
9 out of 10 chances are that you have VLC Media Player installed. VideoLAN's VLC media player can be used for many more things than just playing almost any media file you might find. You can stream videos, audio from the internet or locally, you can convert files from one format to another, download videos and much more. This article ...
If you are upset over the death of Google Reader, but okay with a Desktop Client, then Liferea has the solution for you. In the upcoming releases (1.8.15 and 1.10-RC4) you will be able to save your Google Reader data to Liferea, and if you have already added your Google Reader feeds to Liferea, you won't lose anything! This good ...
FYI: This post is just to vent my frustration! Note to self: Turn off DNT plugin during dev. Was trying to embed the Twitter Timeline Widget today when something annoying happened, the widget loaded and worked flawlessly on Chromium but didn’t load on Firefox! Imagine the frustration! That obviously led me to tinkering and searching various posts and discussions online, ...
We have a ton of choices to choose from when it comes to using a Public DNS service – Google Public DNS, Open DNS, etc., but which one is the best for you? The main reason you use Public DNS is to bypass the slow or prohibitive DNS lookup by your ISP. And most of the time it’s for the ...
Or more specifically, if you use anything below the latest and greatest, and are forced to use their legacy driver as I am, here's how to actually use Unity without causing physical bodily harm to everyone around you when you throw your computer, doused in gasoline and burning. First, you must install CCSM. Then, go to Open GL. Then, disable ...
Using Pantheon on 12.10? Theme got you down? As you probably have noticed, the elementary GTK theme does not work on Ubuntu 12.10, thanks to changes in GTK+ 3.6 that broke most themes compatible with GTK+ 3.4. However, there is hope for those who still want to use Pantheon, along with all the slick-looking indicators, etc. <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Evolve?content=146987" target="_blank">Evolve</a>, by ...
Many people use G-mail as their main email service and G-mail is loaded with features. Some features more obvious than others, and recently I have explored around filters Basically a filter allows you to filter mail, based on certain criteria that you set, some examples might be certain keywords, a specific address, or even attachment types. While many of us ...
A couple of years(?) ago, Songbird discontinued support for Linux, and became one of the least popular Linux players pretty much overnight. Of course, with the number of Linux Media Players available, hardly anyone missed it... or did they? Anyway, letting bygones be bygones, time to turn our attention to the Linux successor to Songbird, Nightingale, which despite the lack ...
<em>So, as often happens, it's been a while since my last post, which was a rant, partly because of some frustrating developments in 12.10. Thankfully, some of these have been sorted, and positivity has return to the land of news for human beings ;)</em> And now for the actual news. So today I wanted to update blender, as it has ...
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