Paolo Conti - WebLog

Test your works with the beast :) (AKA IE)

Paolo — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:36:48 +0000

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

cron.daily, cron.hourly, cron.monthly and cron.weekly not working

Paolo — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:46:33 +0000

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

This behaviour is due to run-parts (a program that runs all the executable files found in a directory).

From the run-parts manual: “If neither the –lsbsysinit option nor the –regex option is given then the names must consist entirely of upper and lower case letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens.”.

iPhone, ringtone how-to

Paolo — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:06:42 +0000

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…

Dichiariamo guerra a IE6 (un browser uscito nel 2001!!!)

Paolo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:20:49 +0000

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.

Xdebug and XAMPP

Paolo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:18:19 +0000

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!

NTFS 3G slow with VMware

Paolo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:34:07 +0000

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

Strange behaviour with keyboard in Vmware Server 2.0 & Linux?

Paolo — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:38:12 +0000

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:

How to install OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 on Linux

Paolo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:22:16 +0000

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…

You have to download the correct version of OpenLaszlo for your OS (Linux platform, openlaszlo-4.1.1-unix.tar.gz).

Expand the archive where you install usually your applications (I use a directory into my home, called “Programs”).

Make sure to install the java SDK package with APT, set the JAVA_HOME variable and run the OpenLaszlo server.

Now you can test your installation opening this URL with your browser: http://localhost:8080/lps-4.1.1/

Warning: this installation method is not compatible with VMware Server 2.0.
If you have installed VMware, the OpenLaszlo server is not starting. You can find some clues into the file ./Server/tomcat-5.0.24/logs/catalina.out:
StandardServer.await: create[8005]: java.net.BindException: Address already in use
java.net.BindException: Address already in use

I don’t have time to debug this problem, but I can suggest a little workaround: stop the VMware webAccess service and all the VMware stuff (also kill the script vmware-watchdog).

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex + Firefox & Flash player 10 sound

Paolo — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:33:24 +0000

To fix the ALSA/flash player problem:

# sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound

VMware Server 2.0 + Sound/ALSA + Ubuntu/Linux

Paolo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:14:10 +0000

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…