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tips & tricks

crossword solver using command line

In tips & tricks on 11 March 2010 tagged cheat, crossword, puzzle with no comments

if you like to solve crossword puzzle to kill your time but sometimes you are stuck with what word you should put in
here’s a quick example on how to do that in your terminal
example clue the entire CPU of a computer on a single integrated circuit (chip)
and we have crossword like this
_,_,_,r,_,p,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,r
now using common word [...]

opencv in ubuntu

In tips & tricks on 11 March 2010 tagged image processing, opencv, ubuntu with no comments

for those who want to do some image processing in ubuntu but strunggling to compile and install it here’s a easiest way to do it

sudo apt-get install opencv-doc python-opencv libcv1 libcvaux1 libhighgui1 \
libcvaux-dev libcv-dev libhighgui-dev

to see all example from opencv-doc
cp -r /usr/share/doc/opencv-doc/examples cv-examples && cd cv-examples

there’s will be c and python example, to compile [...]

faster kernel compiling and update

In tips & tricks on 1 March 2010 tagged debian, kernel, ubuntu with no comments

if you have try to compile a kernel before, you will know how boring the process is!
it get more boring and annoying when you need to disable/enable certain thing in .config or doing some patches you need to recompile the whole thing again
so here, i want to share something that i’ve learned alot during my [...]

ubuntu 9.10 nginx + php5

In tips & tricks on 23 February 2010 tagged nginx, php5, setup, webserver with no comments

a simple nginx + php5 web server setup
1. first we download all neccessary packages
sudo apt-get install nginx php5-cgi php5-mysql spawn-fcgi
2. add php-fastcgi init script
sudo nano /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi
cut and paste this script

#!/bin/bash

FAST_CGI="/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -u www-data -g www-data -f /usr/bin/php-cgi"

case "$1" in

start)

$FAST_CGI

;;

stop)

killall -9 php-cgi

;;

restart)

killall -9 php-cgi

sleep 1;

$FAST_CGI

;;

*)

echo "Usage: php-fastcgi {start|stop|restart}"

exit 1

;;

esac

exit 0;

3. configuring nginx to [...]

fix broken /dev/null

In tips & tricks on 23 February 2010 tagged shortnote with no comments

if you accidentally deleted /dev/null file here’s a simple way how to re-create it
mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3