Alexander M.

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[Solved] Skype Crash Override on Fedora 15 (x86_64)

Alexander M. posted an article on - Dec 18, 2011, 10:43 am
Working with Microsoft Skype on Fedora 15 is a bad experience. I was experiencing system freezes at random when trying to use Skype on my laptop. A positively good how-to and methos to cure skype hanging and freezing the desktop on LInux (Fedora x86_64) Related posts:Fixing Skype which ...
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Building phantomjs on Fedora 14

Alexander M. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2011, 5:27 am
PhantomJS is an headless browser based on an embedded webkit, suitable for testing of web applications involving JavaScript usage where simpler tools do not cut it. Best, most transparent and easiest instructions on how to build PhantomJS on Fedora 14 Linux. Related posts:Creating self-...
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Problem Playing mp3-Encoded Files From Goldendict

Alexander M. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2011, 3:02 pm
When porting goldendict dictionary bases from my working laptop with Fedora 14 to a EeePC with Fedora 15, I have discovered that the sound files included with several dictionaries do not play at all. How-to for an efficient and easy way to fix the problem with mp3-encoded files that do n...
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Make EeePc Internal Microphone Work for Skype in Fedora 15

Alexander M. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2011, 4:44 pm
As it has unpleasantly appeared, Fedora 15 is not very friendly to ASUS EeePC sound hardware (the same problem is discovered for both 1001PXD and 1001HA). The internal microphone is not recognized and does not want to work. However, there could be a workaround to that. The most pleasant,...
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The Quickest Self-Brewed Screen Grabber for Linux

Alexander M. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2011, 3:05 pm
Sometimes you need to make a series of screenshots very quickly, and you have no time to think about output file names and the rest of the things. However, in Linux you can do this only typing one letter and clicking a mouse button. The article merrily describes how to create a very quick, nic...
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RP Newsticker Plugin for WordPress: Version 0.7 Out

Alexander M. posted an article on - Oct 10, 2011, 9:10 am
The plugin creates a widget to display a nice horizontal newsticker which can be placed in a sidebar (now with advanced options). Tested in Wordpress 3.0 - 3.2, expected to be compatible from 2.6+. Demo in action:  http://chernivtsi.ws (in Ukrainian). RP Newsticker...
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Available for Hire: Experienced PHP / MySQL / AJAX Freelancer and Consultant

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2011, 10:02 am
I have around 11 years of overall PHP, MySQL and JavaScript experience, both as a freelancer and an employee with several companies. Possessing strong skills in object-oriented programming and design patterns allows me to solve complex problems using high-end PHP-based techniques. It is a common pra...
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A group of domains is possibly available for sale

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2011, 11:29 am
The domain names are in the package are: RATIONALPLANET.COM RATIONALPLANET.ORG RATIONALPLANET.NET RATIONALPLANET.INFO RATIONALPLANET.BIZ RATIONALPLANET.MOBI with RATIONALHOSTS.COM RATIONALHOSTS.MOBI All domains are offered as a single package and cannot be sold separately. This is a no-haste offer. ...
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Samsung 1630W Laser Mono Printer in Fedora 14

Alexander M. posted an article on - Aug 25, 2011, 8:17 am
Setting Samsung 1630W to work in Fedora 14 is a little tricky, but not very much complicated if you know how to solve problems. How to plug in, install and tune Samsung 1630W Laser Mono Printer in Fedora 14 x86_64 using a proprietary universal driver. Related posts:Samsung 1630W Laser Mono Pr...
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Creating self-signed RPM packages in Fedora

Alexander M. posted an article on - Jun 6, 2011, 1:08 pm
Creating your own self-signed rpms is a pain in the neck for newbies, especially when you start reading online docs form fedora docs site. You have an impression that people writing that stuff were specially trained to use understandable language so that all laymen should keep away. The ...
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Skype is Down Again [Updated: how to fix]

Alexander M. posted an article on - May 26, 2011, 8:17 am
SKYPE.COM — Skype service is down because of an unknown reason. It is impossible to log in and to access *.skype.com in a browser.  Skype team says through twitter: Skype service is down for an unknown reason. Skype team reports the situation via its twitter account. Related posts:F...
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Fedora 15 released on May 24

Alexander M. posted an article on - May 25, 2011, 1:53 am
Fedora 15 is officially out on May 24. Fedora 15 is officially out today, November 2; the official Fedora project site has also undergone considerable redesign. Related posts:Fedora 14 Officially Out Major Fedora 11-to Fedora 12 Switch, Acer Aspire 6930G Laptop
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Gimp: Fixing Problem with Guides [SOLVED]

Alexander M. posted an article on - Apr 25, 2011, 9:16 am
From some point, after years of using gimp, I found out that it has a strange bug when trying to drag a new guide from the ruler or an existing guide from a previously saved file. How to overcome the bug in gimp when dragging or creating a new guide hangs the mouse and makes it irrespons...
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[Upgrade] Netbeans PHP IDE 7.0 in Fedora Linux

Alexander M. posted an article on - Apr 24, 2011, 7:52 am
Netbeans 7.0 is out. New features (in PHP edition): Competent and fullformat walkthrough on how to get, set up or upgrade and make Netbeans PHP IDE 7.0 work for Fedora including some java SWING fixes. Related posts:[Upgrade] Netbeans PHP IDE 6.9 Making Netbeans PHP IDE 6.8 work for Fedo...
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Web Projects Leader, Applications Engineer, PHP / MySQL / AJAX Web Applications Developer

Alexander M. posted an article on - Apr 10, 2011, 7:32 am
I am a Web Projects Leader, Applications Engineer, PHP / MySQL / AJAX Web Applications Programmer and Consultant from Ukraine, I have over 10 years of experience in PHP, MySQL, Javascript, AJAX programming freelancing. I am currently looking for a challenging position in a European company. ...
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RP Recreate Slugs Plugin – A Bugfix Release

Alexander M. posted an article on - Apr 7, 2011, 1:52 pm
RP Recreate Slugs Plugin has been updated to version 1.1 (a bugfix relese to fix some error reporting). RP Recreate Slugs Plugin for Wordpress newly out at Wordpress.org web site, plugins repository. Related posts:RP Recreate Slugs Plugin Released Today Free Plugin Utility for WordPress...
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RP Newsticker Plugin for WordPress: Version 0.5 Bugfix Release

Alexander M. posted an article on - Mar 25, 2011, 4:09 pm
The plugin creates a widget to display a nice horizontal newsticker which can be placed in a sidebar (now with advanced options). Tested in Wordpress 3.0 - 3.0.1, expected to be compatible from 2.6+. Demo in action:  http://chernivtsi.ws (in Ukrainian). RP Newsticker Plugin ve...
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RP Recreate Slugs Plugin Released Today

Alexander M. posted an article on - Mar 17, 2011, 3:50 pm
RP Recreate Slugs Plugin has been approved by Wordpress team and now and on available from wordpress.org plugins repositgory. RP Recreate Slugs Plugin for Wordpress newly out at Wordpress.org web site, plugins repository. Related posts:RP Recreate Slugs Plugin – A Bugfix Release Free ...
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Free Plugin Utility for WordPress: RP Recreate Slugs

Alexander M. posted an article on - Mar 16, 2011, 1:46 pm
Recreate articles and pages slugs with the most current ruleset. Useful when slug generation is changed or updated, especially with transliteration. Global slugs recovery. Saves sites. Use with care. RP Recreate Slugs Plugin for Wordpress: recreate articles and pages slugs with the most ...
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[SOLVED] Package bind.x86_64 32:9.7.2-5.P3.fc14 Broken in Fedora 14

Alexander M. posted an article on - Feb 13, 2011, 4:04 am
Making routine updates yesterday on my dedicated server, I noticed that all my hosts are down and cannot be pinged with my self-hosted dns even from the server itself. Current bind package is broken in Fedora 14 repos, downgrade to fix. No related posts.
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Moving to a New Dedicated Server

Alexander M. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2010, 9:04 am
I am moving all my projects, including this blog, a new dedicated server, of course, featuring Fedora Linux as main OS. This site might become unavailable for a couple of hours or even days, but after all has been finished I will describe the whole process of migration using open source software and...
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Fedora 14 Officially Out

Alexander M. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2010, 1:24 pm
Fedora 14 is officially out today, November 2. Fedora 14 is officially out today, November 2; the official Fedora project site has also undergone considerable redesign. Related posts:Fedora 13 Officially Available Fedora 15 released on May 24 Major Fedora 11-to Fedora 12 Switch, A...
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PLESK – Table 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist [SOLVED]

Alexander M. posted an article on - Oct 17, 2010, 10:40 am
If you have plesk-based hosting sometimes you get very scary errors which look like your server is gone and your quite a dozen of sites are totally dead. The “funny” error shows up after you have upgraded mysql through the atomic repo with yum and now you cannot create user databases under domai...
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How To Create an M4B Audiobook with Chapters from a Directory of MP3 Files to Play on IPOD

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 28, 2010, 11:13 am
This entry is part of a series, Efficient Audio and Video Encoding in Linux Command Line
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Creating a Site-Wide Sidebar for Your Worpress Theme

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2010, 2:44 am
I am sure there are a lot tutorials like that on the web, but this one is obviously needed in my blog for the reason of the WordPress plugin I am developing. The objective is to create a really wide toolbar to contain the news-ticker scrolling widget from the mentioned plugin. The result of this Re...
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A PHP, MySQL, Javascript (LAMP) Developer and Programmer Available for Contract Work

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2010, 3:56 pm
I am a PHP (LAMP) programmer from Ukraine, I have over 10 years of experience in PHP, MySQL, Javascript, AJAX programming freelancing. Scope: almost 10 years freelancing experience, recommendations available insane about terms of project deadlines, understanding that communication is always the way ...
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RP Newsticker Plugin for WordPress: Version 0.4 Out

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 15, 2010, 1:06 pm
The plugin creates a widget to display a nice horizontal newsticker which can be placed in a sidebar (now with advanced options). Tested in WordPress 3.0 – 3.0.1, expected to be compatible from 2.6+. Demo in action:  http://chernivtsi.ws (in Ukrainian). What’s New in 0.4 Mix your explicitly giv...
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Mass Change A Collation for Table Fields in MySQL

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 12, 2010, 2:30 am
LAMP programmers often come across MySQL database dumps or existing tables that have wrong collations or where table fields have different collations even within one single table. To fix the problem, run the below query for each table under question. Of course, the collation values are on your choic...
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[Solved] Removable USB hard Disks Do Not Mount in Fedora 13

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 11, 2010, 3:29 am
I have a couple of nice removable WD My Passport hard drives, one of them refused to automount ignoring everything except direct root mount to a directory. Solution: check if this disk appears accidentally in /etc/fstab. Edit /etc/fstab removing its line. sudo gedit /etc/fstab I do not know what doe...
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[Solved] Ktorrent 4 beta 1 Segfaults after Fedora Upgrade

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2010, 3:15 am
I have noticed that ktorrent does not run properly after upgrading from Fedora 12. I suspected the reason is in some misconfiguration because of config files incompatibilities. The solution below is fairly simple. mv ~/.kde/share/config/ktorrentrc ~/.kde/share/config/ktorrentrc.bak gedit ~/.kde/shar...
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Taking The Next Step To VPS Web Hosting

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 9, 2010, 5:15 am
When it comes time to choosing the right web hosting solution for your website, there’s more to it than just going with the cheapest plan. This is speaking for the majority of website owners who do not have dedicated hosting within their price range. Yet for many, shared hosting will do just fine ...
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conky: Free Disk Space and Removable Drives

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 9, 2010, 2:58 am
This entry is part of a series, conky
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conky: Top Processes and Memory Usage

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2010, 3:30 am
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conky: CPU, Network and Resources Monitor

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 7, 2010, 3:47 am
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conky: Autoload configuration for GNOME

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 6, 2010, 6:56 am
This entry is part of a series, conky
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RP Newsticker Plugin for WordPress: Version 0.3 Out

Alexander M. posted an article on - Sep 6, 2010, 3:54 am
The plugin creates a widget to display a nice horizontal newsticker which can be placed in a sidebar. Tested in WordPress 3.0 – 3.0.1 Demo in action:  http://chernivtsi.ws (in Ukrainian). What’s New in 0.3 Allow arbitrary data instead of posts. Reset options to default. Upgrade Notice 0.2 to 0....
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Vacation Announcement

Alexander M. posted an article on - Aug 12, 2010, 3:10 am
I am on vacation until the 30th of August.
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Asus Eee PC 1001HA: Fedora 12 to 13 Upgrade with Preupgrade

Alexander M. posted an article on - Aug 9, 2010, 6:25 pm
This entry is part of a series, Fedora Linux on Asus Eee PC 1001HA
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RP Newsticker Plugin for WordPress: Version 0.2 Out

Alexander M. posted an article on - Aug 1, 2010, 1:58 am
The plugin creates a widget to display a nice horizontal newsticker which can be placed in a sidebar. Tested in WordPress 3.0 – 3.0.1 Demo in action:  http://chernivtsi.ws (in Ukrainian). What’s New Tune css from widget Upgrade Notice 0.1 to 0.2 Please completely uninstall the previous ...
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RP Newsticker Plugin for WordPress

Alexander M. posted an article on - Jul 29, 2010, 4:24 pm
The plugin creates a widget to display a nice horizontal newsticker which can be placed in a sidebar. Tested in WordPress 3.0 only, expected to be compatible from 2.6+. Demo in action:  http://chernivtsi.ws (in Ukrainian). Page at wordpress.org Features Show latest posts titles in a scrolling newst...
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Fast Encoding from Wavpack (.ISO.WV, .WV) Audio Format on Linux

Alexander M. posted an article on - Jul 20, 2010, 2:41 pm
This entry is part of a series, Efficient Audio and Video Encoding in Linux Command Line
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[Solved] WLAN, Wireless Problem With HP Compaq CQ71

Alexander M. posted an article on - Jun 22, 2010, 3:23 pm
When installing Fedora 12 on HP Compaq CQ71, it was not intended for using WLAN, however, when it comes for its usage, I found out the NetworkManager does not see any wireless networks (Broadcom card). Remove the ssb blacklist option from boot kernel parameters (these two steps are optional, however...
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[Upgrade] Netbeans PHP IDE 6.9

Alexander M. posted an article on - Jun 16, 2010, 3:18 am
This entry is part of a series, PHP Development Tools for Linux and Windows Desktop
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[Solved] SMF Forum SSI.php UTF-8 Problem

Alexander M. posted an article on - Jun 15, 2010, 1:14 pm
SMF forum is a great software, however, sometimes it needs tweaking when it comes to UTF-8 support. The below is a very quick fix. Open SSI.php. Find: global $smcFunc, $ssi_db_user, $scripturl, $ssi_db_passwd, $db_passwd, $cachedir; Add just two lines below and save: global $db_character_set; mysql_...
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Latest Bluefish PHP IDE in Fedora 12

Alexander M. posted an article on - Jun 2, 2010, 7:05 am
This entry is part of a series, PHP Development Tools for Linux and Windows Desktop
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Fedora 13 Officially Available

Alexander M. posted an article on - May 25, 2010, 3:18 pm
Lots of new features announced: printing, fonts, better PackageKit integration, GNOME colour profiles and more. Release notes here.
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Fedora Linux on Asus Eee PC 1001HA: kernel, Plymouth, compositing, desktop, Virtual Box, awn

Alexander M. posted an article on - May 23, 2010, 10:45 am
This entry is part of a series, Fedora Linux on Asus Eee PC 1001HA
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Asus Eee PC 1001HA Fedora Postinstall

Alexander M. posted an article on - May 16, 2010, 1:59 pm
This entry is part of a series, Fedora Linux on Asus Eee PC 1001HA
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Asus Eee PC 1001HA Fedora Live CD Install

Alexander M. posted an article on - May 15, 2010, 3:28 am
This entry is part of a series, Fedora Linux on Asus Eee PC 1001HA
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