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Mediawiki 1.18.0, Cite and Poem

It’s a new found that under newly released Mediawiki 1.18.0, footnote using Cite extention inside Poem tag will produce random number with nowiki text inside. Doesn’t resolve too with latest source checked out from svn for both extentions, must be something wrong with the MW it self. Best way is to downgrade to 1.17

Imaginary friend

Windows 95 Upgrade

You are old enough if you smiling

xkcd’s comic on password strength

If Web Browsers Were Celebrities

Firefox, Chrome and IE

Adding Swap Memory to Linux

You can add swap memory if you don’t have swap partition, especially low on physical memory. sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile bs=1M count=2048 && sudo chmod 600 /var/swapfile && sudo mkswap /var/swapfile && echo /var/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0 | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab && sudo swapon -a

iTunes on external HDD

iTunes library consist of Media Folder and iTunes Library database file (.itl). If you are moving to external HDD, Change the Media Folder Consolidate (moving out the files to new folder) shutdown iTunes, move out the itl file Start iTunes with Shift-option/alt pressed, you will be prompted whether to create new library or open, choose [...]

Screen Capturing on Mac – Shortcut

Command-Shift-3 = Captures the entire screen. Command-Shift-4 = Freezes screen, allowing you to select a portion to capture. Command-Shift-4 then press Spacebar = Allows you to capture a specific menu or window. Just move the camera cursor to the object you want to capture.

Beware $wgUseDatabaseMessages with $wgLanguageCode in MediaWiki

If you set $wgUseDatabaseMessages to false while set $wgLanguageCode to other language code in LocalSettings.php, be ready for surprises. If $wgUseDatabaseMessages set to false and $wgLanguageCode set to other language, all MediaWiki namespace such as MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Sitenotice would not be loaded. Although that would save processing time but setting $wgUseDatabaseMessages to false is not [...]