Migration from LifeType to Drupal
Finally finished migration from my lovely blogging tool LifeType to Drupal this morning! Why? LifeType only let me blog, but not other functions like web pages, forum, polls, e-shop, ....…
Drupal Sub Theme Issues
Issues: After creating and using a subtheme of Drupal Blank Screen of Death after creating a subtheme of Drupal Superfish Dropdown menu didn't work Solutions: ensure the function names "[base_theme]_preprocess_html(&$vars)"…
NFSv4 started but not v3!
Issue: can't mount nfs file in version 3. the Picazzo DMB-T set-top box network files system for recording only entertain NFS instead of Windows CIFS, but the worst is that…
Migration Xen to VMware to VirtualBox for Linux
Issue: Xen migrates to VMware Player for the following reasons: its guests are with less interactive control than other virtualization like VMware or Virtualbox, e.g. mouse control, full screen auto-resize,…
Reborn of Blog – LifeType
After months of deactivated Larry's blog, now it's reborn! from LifeType 1.0.6 to 1.2.8. Why? migrated Linux from Pentium4 1.7Ghz Sony VAIO desktop /Fedora to Core 2 Duo 3Ghz…
unable to set superblock flags
Issue: System hang, then reboot but unable to boot up! system suggested "e2fsck". after fixing/ cleaning some files, "unable to set superblock flags" on /user/local Solution: execute: e2fsck -b 32768…
Apache Config – Force https
Issue: Some Web Applications provide feature to force direct to https from http links either at installation stage or configured later by application administrators, but some web applications do not…
vTiger – Import Date Format yyyy-mm-dd
Issue: When import a spreadsheet in .csv format, all imported dates become 00-00-0000. Solution: make sure the date format of the cells in .csv must be in yyyy-mm-dd. Tricks: the…
Solaris boot issue
Issue: sometimes boot process hang in the middle due to previous power down or system hang. Solution: Boot under "Solaris failsafe" run: fsck /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 reboot to normal multi-user mode
wifi only works on LAN but can’t access internet?
Issue: after bringing up ath0 driver for wifi on acer notebook, it can only access wireless AP, but cannot access internet. Guess that it is because hostname unknown issue. Solution:…