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[HOWTO] Fix Twitter clients (or PHP scripts) which use basic authentication.

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:16:04 +0000

As you probably know, Twitter completely ditched basic authentication method on August 31st, 2010. It now supports only OAuth method of authentication which complicates the coding process multiple folds. Scripts which were previously 20 lines long are span several files. While there are numerous advantage of Oauth like client doesn’t need to know your password, [...]Related posts:

[SOLVED] “Ignoring file ‘.distUpgrade’ / ‘.save’ in directory ‘/etc/apt/sources.list.d/’ as it has an invalid filename extension” on Ubuntu 10.10

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:35:25 +0000

Recently apt-get update started throwing notices which read: Ignoring file 'opera.list.distUpgrade' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension Ignoring file 'opera.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension It occured because sources.list.d directory isn’t supposed to contain files with .distupgrade and .save extensions, but since I upgraded my distribution [...]Related posts:

[SOLVED] No sound in tuxguitar

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:03:30 +0000

Tuxguitar stopped working after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha. Many people seem to be having this problem after a distribution upgrade. The fix is simple. Install timidity and tuxguitar-jsa package. sudo apt-get install timidity tuxguitar-jsa After the install, run tuxguitar and play a file. You should hear the sound. If you still cannot hear it [...]Related posts:

Ubuntu 11.04 named ‘Natty Narwhal’

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:17:20 +0000

Ubuntu 11.04, which is to be released in April 2011, has been named Natty Narwhal as mentioned on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog. Check out the entire blog post here. Seems reasonable, as weird sounding as all previous names. Ubuntu, you never disappoint me! Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Digg this! Share this on [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Add expires headers to cache static files using htaccess

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:52:23 +0000

Caching is one of the most important things to keep in mind when you are developing a website which is expected to get large amount of visitors. Most web developers neglect caching, some even don’t know correct ways to implement it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to enable browser cache of static files [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Enable or disable modules in Apache

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:14:47 +0000

You can enable or disable any apache module using a2enmod and a2dismod. You don’t need to edit the conf file for that unless you are having some problem with this method. The syntax of these commands is really simple: To enable a module: sudo a2enmod module_name To disable a module: sudo a2dismod module_name For instance, [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Check your php and server information using phpinfo()

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:53:22 +0000

We can check the php configuration, apache’s loaded modules and all other kinds of PHP configuration using a simple function called phpinfo(). Create a file called infophp.php in your web’s root directory and put the following code in it: <? phpinfo(); ?> This would output all the php configuration info and apache information. You can [...]Related posts:

[Solved] vlc: missing mandatory argument `–user-agent=”VLC media player”‘

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:07:24 +0000

Yesterday after upgrading the packages VLC refused to start giving out following error message: VLC media player 1.1.1 The Luggage (revision exported) vlc: unknown option or missing mandatory argument `--user-agent="VLC media player"' Try `vlc --help' for more information. To solve the error, just reinstall vlc: sudo apt-get install vlc Cheers! Stumble upon something good? Share [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Block and Unblock friends on facebook

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:13:15 +0000

A lot of my friends have been asking this to me so I’ll just go ahead and make a blog post for everyone. According to facebook: If you block someone, they will not be able to find you in a Facebook search, see your profile, or interact with you through Facebook channels (such as Wall [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Use mutt with msmtp

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:12:14 +0000

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. Msmtp is a smtp client which is available for Linux as well as windows. Configuring mutt to work with msmtp is fortunately quite easy. Here’s a tutorial teaching the same. Step 1: Find the executable path of msmtp: which msmtp Step [...]Related posts: