Life of Larry

GIMP No Transparent Background

Post author:larry
Post published:Mar 4, 2014
Post category:Diary Entrepreneur Tech

Issue: After correctly using Gimp's Color to Alpha feature to turn white (or other colour) background into transparency. It appears also correctly in Gimp. However, every time export the image,…

Deployment of WordPress Shopp

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 18, 2014
Post category:Diary Entrepreneur Tech

Background: Need to apply tiered pricing schedule for the service, however, WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing Extension is unreasonably high at US$129 for single-site license. Issue: There are some ecommerce plugins in…

WordPress FAQs Plugin missing Categories

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 17, 2014
Post category:Diary Entrepreneur Tech

Background: The built-in Faq feature of the WordPress theme Shopifiq cannot perform multilingual provided by qTranlate plugin. No issue for the questions, but the language contents mixed together for the…

Visit Wun Chuen Sin Kwoon (雲泉仙館)

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 6, 2014
Post category:Diary

Visited Wun Chuen Sin Kwoon with Angelina to remember her mother with bone ash located there. Before closing order, we got 2 dishes of vegetarian food at $154 including 10%…

Customize Piwigo Template

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 3, 2014
Post category:Entrepreneur Tech

Issue: Want to change order of the footer content. Solution: Create directory my-templates in ./template-extension Copy ./themes/default/template/footer.tpl to my-templates Click Administration -> Configuration -> Templates Corresponding to 'my-templates/footer.tpl' choose footer.tpl…

Aegisub Audio Issue

Post author:larry
Post published:Jan 30, 2014
Post category:Entrepreneur Tech

Background: Last time trying to use Aegisub was just a simple task to shift the subtitle timing for several sec. for the whole subtitle syncronization with the video clip. This…

zPanel https Configuration Issues

Post author:larry
Post published:Jan 17, 2014
Post category:IT Network

Issue: After deploying zPanel for a week, seems that most of the domains, subdomains, mail server are fine. But as the webmail using Roundcube cannot be executed as it forces…

CentOS Not Bootable after Install Kernel-devel rpm

Post author:larry
Post published:Jan 11, 2014
Post category:IT Linux OS System

Issue: OS unbootable and show the following message: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Solution: At waiting to boot loader click any key…

FTP Passive Mode

Post author:larry
Post published:Jan 4, 2014
Post category:IT Network

Issue: Implementing proftpd with TLS/SSL in zPanel with access issue through firewall. Solution: Besides port 21 for standard ftp and ftp with explicit SSL/TLS, need to forward range of port…

WiFi Transfer Large File to iPad without iTunes

Post author:larry
Post published:Dec 23, 2013
Post category:IT Network

Issue: Some HD files are usually bigger than 2GB, and it is a limit to most of the FTP or other file transferring utilties including Qnap's app - QFile. Though…