Posted in January 20, 2010 ¬ 11:57 pmh.John Jiang
If I should Vlog about anything what should it be? I’ve been enticed by Ben Taylor after his amusing videos regarding NOT visiting reddit. See here.
So if I can Vlog about ANYTHING. What should it be? I really can’t think of anything interesting to talk about >.>
Nobody have been commenting on my stuff lately, makes [...]
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Posted in November 22, 2009 ¬ 1:52 pmh.John Jiang
So Ubuntu 9.10 got released several weeks ago and people have been asking about how to get my old tutorial working for 9.10.
The problem is that Ubuntu 9.10 uses the new grub 2 boot loader which changes LOTS of things. In this tutorial I will be showing you how to get Ubuntu 9.10 (or any [...]
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Posted in November 3, 2009 ¬ 11:49 amh.John Jiang
So with every installation of Windows/Ubuntu, I find myself reinstalling Firefox and then reinstalling all the extensions and then configuring the extensions to match my needs.
Unfortunately, Mozilla only has this crappy service that syncs your bookmarks (which 100 other extensions do already) and does not offer extension or settings sync.
I’m just gonna list a run-down [...]
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Posted in November 3, 2009 ¬ 12:45 amh.John Jiang
When I was on Windows XP I had this crazy obsession with making XP as slim as possible. I made custom XP installs slipstreamed with the most recent updates, disabled all the unnecessary services and only used apps that had small memory footprints.
I believe I got it down to around 18 processes on start up. [...]
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Posted in September 6, 2009 ¬ 1:13 pmh.John Jiang
Let me set the scene. The year was 2000, I’ve just finished my selective school test so my life for the next 6 years was set.
I was visiting China for the first time in 4 years, it’s been so long that I hardly remember anything any more. The place where we lived which I thought [...]
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Posted in June 27, 2009 ¬ 1:47 pmh.John Jiang
Today I will be releasing the Release Candidate of my Chatlog to Email Converter Plus!
I added “Plus!” as it is designed for Messenger Plus! chatlogs.
It now supports every form of Messenger chatlogs text or html and also has emoticon support.
Requirements:
Python 2.6 (preferable, 2.5 should also work but untested)
Beautiful Soup
Mozilla Thunderbird
Wishlist:
Remove Thunderbird requirement and support direct [...]
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Posted in June 23, 2009 ¬ 7:51 pmh.John Jiang
Over the years you will find that your contact list gets cluttered. You’ve deleted people, blocked people or even both. Maybe others have deleted you, blocked you or both. For the people that have blocked or deleted you…why bother keeping them on your contact list?
Why not delete them? But then how do you tell who’s [...]
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Posted in June 5, 2009 ¬ 5:04 pmh.John Jiang
One thing that has frustrated me for MANY MANY years is the fact that Firefox does not allow you remember the username/password for WebCT. I cannot express how annoying this is. Opera was able to do it fine why can’t firefox?!
Usually I’m fine with just typing in my password and my relatively weak password to [...]
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Posted in May 9, 2009 ¬ 1:28 pmh.John Jiang
Quick and dirty guide on setting up pop3 for the new USYD Uni Mail.
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Posted in April 28, 2009 ¬ 4:05 pmh.John Jiang
Edit 22/11/09
Ubuntu 9.10 uses the new grub 2 as its boot-loader thus this article would not work for 9.10. I am currently in the progress of getting 9.10 to work under Virtualbox.
This tutorial would no longer be supported. Any comments regarding support will be ignored.
If you want to get 9.10 working please READ THIS ARTICLE
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