benzwu » Software

Mediawiki 1.18.0, Cite and Poem

benzwu — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:45:50 +0000

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

benzwu — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:31:11 +0000

Windows 95 Upgrade

benzwu — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:46:24 +0000

You are old enough if you smiling

xkcd’s comic on password strength

benzwu — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:19:01 +0000

If Web Browsers Were Celebrities

benzwu — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:05:28 +0000

Firefox, Chrome and IE

benzwu — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:00:20 +0000

Adding Swap Memory to Linux

benzwu — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:41:44 +0000

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

benzwu — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:00:11 +0000

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 open

Screen Capturing on Mac – Shortcut

benzwu — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:20:50 +0000

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

benzwu — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:59:51 +0000

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 an option.

Hope this save your time.