Jing Xue’s Weblog
In my Kubuntu, I have a Windows XP Professional virtual machine running in Vmware that I use from time to time. Recently I decided to migrate it to VirtualBox. Eventually I got it working, after going through a number of issues. Here goes a recount of them: more…
Caught this “Movie you’ll :heart” recommendation from Netflix today. WWII submarine && King Lear Japanese Edition && modern American office parody => documentary on insects?
After fresh installing Mambo 4.5.3, I went ahead and switched on “Search Engine Friendly URLs”. Mambo was user friendly enough to remind me twice that I needed to rename the included htaccess.txt to .htaccess in order to make the mod_rewrite kick in, which was nice and I heeded the advice. Then I still started getting 500 Internal Server Errors when accessing some of the menu items. Turned out that I also had to uncomment the RewriteBase line and change the URL to the actual path. It would be even nicer if Mambo could go all the way and include that part in the reminder message.
This is not a useful trick (OK it may be useful for whoever still thinks C is the most beautiful language in the universe).
So here is the “fun” with do {} while(FALSE);
A nice free clipboard tool I’ve been using for a couple of months. It sits on the tool tray quietly, capturing the clipboard content everytime you copy something to it. The previous content is not overwritten, but rather is kept in a history list. You can bring up the Yankee Clipper window at any time with a hotkey, pick an entry from the history, and double click to bring it to the clipboard. As the cream on top, my favorite feature is “shoot”. It allows you to select an entry, press F8 (or click on a toolbar icon), switch to the application where you want the entry to go to, and just wait for a couple of more seconds — ta-da! the text is “shot” over to the target application as if it is typed in.
[edit - 04/30/2005] since my original post, the developer of Yankee Clipper has created a more powerful commercial version, YCX, which charges a meager $14.95. The freeware verion, YC3, is still accessible from the same web site.
