Life of Larry

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…

Premiere Pro 5.5 Crash

Post author:larry
Post published:Dec 18, 2013
Post category:Application IT Multimedia Software

After studied something about importing various assets including video and audio files to a project of Premiere Pro, I tried to import some files as an exercise, but whenever I…

OpenSuse Chinese Input Issue with SCIM

Post author:larry
Post published:Nov 20, 2013
Post category:IT Linux OS System

Issue: Using SCIM happily to input Chinese characters with my previous Linux distribution - Ubuntu, but using SCIM in my current OpenSuse is painful as the screen refeashing always crawls…

bt client for OpenSuse

Post author:larry
Post published:Nov 13, 2013
Post category:IT Network

Issue: Standard bt client for OpenSuse KDE desktop manager is ktorrent which has a good integration with KDE desktop of OpenSuse, e.g. a nice pretty icon appeared in the panel…

OSX 10.9 Upgrade Issue

Post author:larry
Post published:Nov 7, 2013
Post category:IT OS OSX System

Issue: Get error message: "This copy of the Install OS X Mavericks application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading." Then it could not…

Drupal Advanced Forum Remove Statistics Pane

Post author:larry
Post published:Sep 26, 2013
Post category:Application CMS IT

Background: It's good to have various groups of users to access relevant forums only and cannot see or know what other forums are. But by default Advanced Forum module displays…

Bluetooth Receiver Connectivity & Sound Quality Issues

Post author:larry
Post published:Aug 19, 2013
Post category:IT Network

Issue: No sound to earphone connected to Bluetooth receiver which is successfully paired and connected to OpenSuse. After successfully played the sound to Bluetooth receiver with earphone, the sound quality…

WordPress/WooShop Bugs on Slider specifically for iOS

Post author:larry
Post published:Aug 3, 2013
Post category:Application CMS IT Software

Issue: Suddenly the Slider show disappeared on iPad. After restoring to previous versions of the page, it was figured out that some kind of video types, (in my case, it…

Yum – Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum … killed

Post author:larry
Post published:Aug 2, 2013
Post category:IT OS OSX System

Issue: Yum cannot proceed even though the Transaction Testing is passed. but after seeing a message: Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum then waited for a while, it showed: killed.…