Paolo Conti - WebLog

IETester is a free Web Browser (it’s alpha software, anyway it’s working, so why not use it???) that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE9 preview, IE8, IE7, IE6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

I’m using it on Windows XP ant it rocks!

- link to the website and download: here

Well, I have just made a little discovery: under recent distros (I’m using Ubuntu 9.10) the cron stuff is changed.

If you label your script with a name containing a dot, the cron job is not executed. (!!!)

Until now, I used to label my scripts like script.sh but now this is evil

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If you want some custom made ringtones, chose your MP3, convert to M4A, rename the file to M4R then drag it in iTunes and sync. That’s it.

Under linux I’m using for the conversion stuff soundKonverter, but you can choose your preferred software…

Si tratta di una protesta partita in Norvegia, dove uno dei siti piu’ popolari del paese finn.no (una specie di eBay locale) sta cercando di far uscire di scena Internet Explorer 6, un “nonnetto” del web, che non ha piu’ senso supportare.

Ho semplicemente tradotto il “banner” in Italiano e lo metto disponibile qui per il download. (basta copiare il codice HTML sul vostro sito web).
Il banner, una volta inserito sulle vostre pagine, ha questo aspetto:

Ulteriori informazioni sulla campagna le trovate qui.

If you have to use Xdebug but you don’t want to “going crazy” with manual building from sources or with pecl, you can download a binary version of Xdebug from the ActiveState website (get the PHP Remote Debugging archive for your OS and use the binary version according your PHP version).
Nice gift ActiveState!

If you have your vm hosted on a NTFS partition and the mount.ntfs-3g is eating all your CPU power, try to update the NTFS 3G to the last version and add to your .vmx file this config line:

mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

If you are experiencing some strange behaviour with the keyboard (the four arrow keys, Home, End, PageUP, PageDOWN, etc… are not working correctly) in Vmware Server 2.0 and your host is Linux, you can try to fix this problem with this terminal code:

I’m playing with OpenLaszlo from a while (an open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications), but I have found some problems installing it on my developing system (currently I’m using Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex).
I have found the solution and due to lack of documentation about it I have decided to write a little step-by-step guide here on this blog…

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To fix the ALSA/flash player problem:

# sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound

The new version of my preferred virtual machine environment is out, I’m using it, but the problem with audio device/ALSA is still present.

The new web interface (new??? I remember the “same” interface with the old GSX…) adds some cool features, but the way to fix the ALSA problem is the same of the previous version…

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