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Microsoft Taken over DotNetPanel

Microsoft have taken over DotNetPanel, one of the popular web hosting control panel for windows. Now the software is available as open source. Owner and several staffs of DotNetPanel is part of Microsoft now. DotNetPanel is re branded to WebsitePanel.


TextAloud on Ubuntu

I use TTS to read web pages. Switching to Ubuntu i miss the Text to Speech. Default text to speech on ubuntu is too difficult to understand. You can listen to it only if you get used to its bad


Windows 7 Sins

After going through ubuntu forum i found The site tells why you should not use windows.


Twitter Tools plugin for wordpress blog

Today i instaleld Twitter Tools plugin for this blog. After instllation, you need to go to configuration page of Twitter Tools, then provide your twiter login user name and passwod, Twitter Tools will test your account, then you need to


OpenVZ ubuntu guest have not networking

I created an OpenVZ vps with ubuntu template ubuntu-9.10-x86.tar.gz After login to VPS, there was no networking enabled in the VPS root@server70 [/vz/template/cache]# vzctl enter 102 entered into CT 102 root@hosthat:/# ifconfig root@hosthat:/# ping yahoo.com ping: unknown host yahoo.com root@hosthat:/#


Google Chrome TTS

Google Chrome have Text to Speech extension, that make it easy to listen to web pages instead of reading the page. You can install the extension from. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jbldhmenlfmbooleglopeplanhpmhmje tts use web based google tts, so it is little slow, you


How to find out which program is using a port

You can use netstat or fuser commands to find out which program is using a port. You can find used ports with command nmap [root@server52 ~]# nmap localhost Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2010-03-24 07:14 EDT Interesting ports



ffmpeg-php undefined symbol php_gd_gdImageSetPixel

When i install ffmpeg-php on a plesk server, i got following error PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/lib/php/modules/ffmpeg.so’ – /usr/lib/php/modules/ffmpeg.so: undefined symbol: php_gd_gdImageSetPixel in Unknown on line 0 This is caused by loading ffmpeg.so before gd.so


Symfony 2 Migration to Git

Symfony is a PHP RAD framework like Zend Framework, CakePHP, etc… They have been using subversion for version control. Today while checking language section of github.com, i found Symfony version 2 is using git for source control. See the announcement