Saturday, 02 May 2015 JotBot Blog Hits: 3575

So i was running the latest Chromium browser on Trusty Taur OS. I noticed that the default search engine used was baidu. I figured it because i live in Singapore so the nearest download servers were grouped with China so i naturally got my Ubuntu's default home folders in Mandarin and now my default search engines are baidu.. minor inconveniences i thought

So i tried to access the manage the Manage Search Engines settings (you can just right click on the search bar (choose Edit Search Engines option) to access it in chromium)

But when i tried to change the names and URL, no love... it won't let me do it.

After a lot of searching around, found out that what you type in makes a difference.. how cryptic is that?

So if you tried getting rid of the default search engine and you found that there is absolutely no button to press, i suggest adding a new search engine like this:

Tuesday, 17 February 2015 JotBot Blog Hits: 3578

Finally ,after a semester of painfully teaching stone age techniques of Windows Phone 7 on Visual Studio 2010, i can finally cleanse my PC off this over-bloated excuse for a development environment. 

But Alas, instead of working with Android Studio or Eclipse, i find myself stuck with another Microsoft product and this time to teach web development.. on Visual Studio 2013! Well at least its an upgrade?

Oh the power that Microsoft holds on our education institutes, we best all be getting well paid jobs to afford the licenses to continue using these wonderdful products, after all, its what every student learns in the curriculum, and most important, its what pays the bills.

From experience, if you manage to land a job in an MNC or a big enough company that can afford these products, that's all fine and dandy, but think about it, its you vs the rest of your cohort and then some, so the chances of you landing work in some SME is probably greater and i can tell you that that is when your real education begins. You will learn how to move around obstacles with the power of the Open source and the Free community that is out there.

So i guess its fair that you continue learning what you paid for and bite the bullet when the time comes.

Visual studio 2013 is installing on my laptop now :)

Saturday, 24 January 2015 JotBot Blog Hits: 3643

Call it curiosity or call it boredom but i recently decided to install Ubuntu14.04 on to an old Mac Book.

I guess i was just bored of Windows and Mac and wanted to keep myself busy with another project. I have used Linux before, mandrake, redhat, ubuntu, backtrack, kde, but most of the times, i just use them for 1 or 2 features to get a job done and i guess it just felt like the right time to try Linux out as a full blown OS. Sampling the free and easy world of software.

So i got Ubutu14.04 dual booted with OSX lion without much problems. I was surprised that everything sort of worked right off the box except the wifi drivers and bluetooth for Supermouse. Those were just a download of the right drivers away.

The super mouse managed to get detected but just would not connect! The problem was solved opening terminal and typing:

bluez-simple-agent

Then when the agent is running, attempt to connect the mouse and it will prompt for a PIN. So it so happened that the pin is 0000. 4 zeros in a row, nice APPLE. After that, the mouse works and you can close the simple agent program and lay all that to rest.

I even managed to get Eclipse working and now just finished setting up my Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP (LAMP) server up.

I got a joomla 3 site to run without problems but finally found it annoying to have to access all my php files using terminal sudo commands because of permission problems to the /var/www directories.

So i found that if i gave group permissions to my user, i could easily solve this minor issue. Using terminal commands:

sudo adduser <username> www-data

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www

Just simply log off the user and log back in for the new permissions to take place and then life will be so much easier to edit css or php files from the directory using gedit from the GUI instead of terminal commands.

I have to say that overall i am quite pleased with Ubuntu14.04, it sure made my old machines feel a little fresher than before!

Wednesday, 23 July 2014 JotBot Blog Hits: 1287

What can i say? I love puzzles and challenges. And when it comes to matters that seem to affect us at a global level, who can resist pondering over what really did happen.

That special date: 17 July 2014, which so happen to be my darling's birthday, so it really pissed me off that the powers that be could not pick another day to practice what they have always been preaching! I wanted it to be a happy occasion but the minute the news came on, who could really be happy? I am referring to MH 17. My heart-felt condolences go out to the families of the innocents who got tangled in this and what i write here is in no way trying to cheapen the magnitude of the events that have occurred, but rather my own opinions shaped from whatever free media i happen to chance upon and piece together for my satisfied sanity.

But what really was concerning me the previous week was the whole Gaza battle and Israels offensive stance. It made me think back about the situation back in 2001 - 2005 and how nothing has really changed for the better. It wasn't until my old band mate reminded me of a song we performed back then, "Reset the World" that i actually realised that it's a recycle-lable one, especially when the only way to "peace" is to be blind to dogma and doctrines.

And like how every great illusionist would work, what better trick to use then the one called "distraction". What you see over here in my right hand will lift your gaze away from my left hand and when its time for you to look back at my left hand, you will see what i want you to see. It is the bread and butter of magic and in this case, your gaze is cast by the news media. But once you train your thoughts to see past the illusion, then you lay the facts before you and make up your own mind.

So here are some facts:

On July 17 2014:

Israel started their Ground assault on the Gaza strip.

The media decided to show the world the MH17 fiasco

This was shortly after Malaysia suffered the loss of MH370

and we all saw how that ping-ponged about with "MYSTERY" still plastered all over. Lets see, for me it went from semi conductor industry take over cover-up, right up to Aliens and the Rapture.

When i started reading up about MH17, i smelled similar 'cover-up' plots mainly linked to occult practices and NWO sort of engineered but some smoking guns which is bones worth gnawing on can be found here.

How credible the source is up for grabs. Could be major Dis info or another sleight of hand, but i'm just not buying into main media for now.

Who knows the "truth" on these matters?

We just have to make them up and live in the world that you believe is real