Life of Larry

Blog Visitors Doubled

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 27, 2015
Post category:Application CMS IT Software

Wow what a WordPress plugin! Shareaholic doubled the visitors over-night from 9 to 19. Lovely features include Mobile-device friendly and does not affect the look and feel of the blogs and…

2nd Batch Slides

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 27, 2015
Post category:Diary
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With a feedback of "look perfectly fine", 2nd batch order from a professional institute of 1348 slides were collected this afternoon.

WP-Courseware LaTex Integration

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 19, 2015
Post category:Application CMS Entrepreneur IT Software Tech

Background: Tried Quiz Master Next plugin for WordPress with some Math quizzes with success. However, this plugin has no feature to let users to upload image file for quiz, i.e.…

Ugly Font Appearance in Linux

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 7, 2015
Post category:IT Linux OS System

Issue: Suddenly found that the Serif fonts appeared in Linux is uglier than those appeared on Mac OS X. Solution: Configure Desktop by enabling Use sub-pixel rendering, and choose Slight…

Finished 1st Batch for a Professional Institute

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 5, 2015
Post category:Entrepreneur Sales

After finished the first batch of slide digitizing with a quantity of 840 items, customer's comment is perfect, and she planned to ask for 2nd batch digitizing service with quantity…

ProFTP problem with FileZilla client

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 3, 2015
Post category:IT Network

Issue: After updating Filezilla client, uploading files and folders to ProFTP server will stop after a while, say after 100MB uploaded but still there are over GB files on the…

Laser Printer for Linux

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 1, 2015
Post category:IT Linux OS System

Issue: Installed Linux driver for Brother DCP-L2540DW printer driver, then found out that printing for one page or double-sided page is fine, but it always shows error "ERROR NAME; memoryfull"…

Windows XP Backup Utility

Post author:larry
Post published:Jan 21, 2015
Post category:IT OS System Windows

Issue: Suddenly cannot backup using Windows XP built-in backup utility. Error: "Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy: 80042301". Solution: Use suggestion from Adi Oltean as follows: There are…

ZenPhoto Colorbox Not function in duplicated theme

Post author:larry
Post published:Sep 2, 2014
Post category:Application IT Multimedia

Issue: After duplicating a ZenPhoto theme, just with a change of theme directory name and theme name, the Colorbox feature is gone under the new theme. But actually, there is…

Must Read! Cool Down MacMini

Post author:larry
Post published:Aug 4, 2014
Post category:Hardware IT

Issue: Mac Mini' s over heat problem has been known for a while. Though the chassis is metallic, the components are closely packed and ventilation fan is small, over 90°C…