You just added a few ringtones of your own to your android device, but after each reboot you lose them and they are set to something else, or muted altogether? Just like something was resetting them, or they were not saved correctly? Well, most probably it’s because you copied the MP3′s on your SDcard, under [...]
So here is my second rant about disliking Android. I should mention now that I am a happy user of this OS on my HD2 since a while ago, after discovering that CalenGoo is a great substitute for Microsoft’s Pocket Outlook calendar, and that HanDBase in its Android version can be tricked into doing the [...]
No matter the server performance, the fastest kind of website for a visitor is the one with static HTML pages; this way the server just has to upload existing data to the browser instead of starting the PHP compiler, open a connection to MySQL, fetch data, format the page and only after that send it. [...]
UPDATE at the end of this post. I tried many, many times to switch from Windows Mobile to Android, and every and each time I went back to Windows Mobile. Honestly, I would like to upgrade, because my HD2 won’t be enough forever, and no new phone gets shipped with a shiny Windows Mobile 6.5 [...]
The winning solution for a mobile compliant website is to have a single HTML structure for every visitor, and just choose the appropriate CSS to render the page correctly for both worlds; so, I’m not speaking here about a /mobile/ folder under your website root, nor any ?mobile query string, but about the exact same [...]
I was a happy user of MySQLDumper until a while ago, when my shared hosting upgraded to the cloud architecture and latest PHP version; with that, some modules for PERL went missing and I was left without a viable backup solution (MySQLDumper PHP approach uses a javascript reloading routine which is superslow and is not [...]
This article goes hand in hand with my previous one, since the findings I report in here are those that led me to update the power source of my server. When you buy a PC, usually the PSU is the last of the worries: the more Watts it’s got, the better, as it can handle [...]
I wrote in another post how I simply attached a car battery to a standard market UPS to give it even more juice; in that occasion, several users commented how I committed several shortcomings regarding the assembly. Also taking into consideration that comments, this morning I rearranged the power supply of my home server to [...]
To backup your Ubuntu install you don’t just need to keep a copy of the /home folder (or partition), since you would still need to re-fetch all the packages you installed, and that can be time consuming, especially if you carefully chose the applications to add to the system. Synaptic already offers a similar function, [...]
Zoneminder has reached its current peak with version 1.24.2 since quite some time, so you can finally get it off the official repositories of Ubuntu, instead of finding then the older 1.23 as it was at the time of Jaunty, when you had to compile off the source. Running configure and make install comes with [...]