Tuesday, May 03, 2011

IELTS preparation: useful vocabulary

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Recently, I was preparing myself for IELTS (International English Language Testing System) test (general module). As part of this preparati...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal): Use 'normal' GNOME instead of Unity

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Ubuntu 11.04 uses Unit as its default desktop environment. However, it is very easy to switch back to 'normal/traditional' GNOME des...

Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal): How to remove chat and mail icons (indicators) from system tray

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Just like for Ubuntu 10.04 , the two following icons (notifiers): can be removed by removing two packages: indicator-me and indicator-messa...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

ImageMagick: Make thumbs of images

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For example to make jpg thumbs of all tiff images in a current director one can use: for f in *.tiff; do bname=`basename $f .tiff` ; conver...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

ImageMagick: Flatten and convert an image to grayscale

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In short, to flatten and convert to grayscale all images in current director one can use: mogrify -flatten -type Grayscale * or mogrify -fla...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

An example file upload progress monitoring in Zend Framework 1.11

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An example web application demonstrating usage of Zend_ProgressBar  and jquery progressbar  for monitoring progress of file uploads in Zend ...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

An example of OpenID, Facebook and Twitter authentication in Zend Framework 1.11

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This is an example Zend Framework 1.11.3 application that uses OpenID (Google, Yahoo, MyOpenId, AOL, OpenId) as well as Facebook Connect an...
Sunday, February 06, 2011

Drupal 7: Add last update date to the footer of the page

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I needed to add a date of last modification of the website made in Drupal 7. I did it by enable core module PHP Filter and creating a block...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Pear run-tests: Setting --cgi option to test file uploads using phpt

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In PHP, file uploads can be tested using phpt files as explained here . However, when I wanted to execute phpt test with --POST_RAW-- or --P...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

Ubuntu 10.10: Change grub menu timeout

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Default grub menu timeout is 10 seconds. To change it just edit the grub file sudo vim /etc/default/grub and change GRUB_TIMEOUT value from...