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DIY Laptop Optical Drive Bay HDD Caddy 10 Dec 2011 | 03:13 am
One easy way for boosting your laptop performance is to get a SSD drive. Unfortunately they are still quite small (in terms of capacity) compared to the traditional HDDs. So to get the best of both wo...
How to Encrypt Partition under Ubuntu 11.10 10 Dec 2011 | 02:04 am
Here is a quick how-to for password protecting and encrypting your partition using cryptsetup under Ubuntu/Kubuntu Oneiric Ocelot. It should work for older versions too but haven’t tested it. cryptset...
How to Access Flex 3 VideoDisplay CuePoint Parameters 7 Dec 2010 | 12:18 pm
Unfortunately when adding cuePoint event listener to mx:VideoDisplay component in Adobe Flex 3 you only receive name, time and type of the Cue Point. Here is a dirty workaround to access the parameter...
LineBreak / NewLine in Flex Text Control from XML String 28 Oct 2010 | 01:56 am
Unfortunately the standard way (‘\n’) of inserting new lines in Flex Text Controls (Label, Text etc) doesn’t work when the string comes from XML. The magical way to do it is by using ‘ ‘ so Lorem...
Embed Font in Flex4 Actionscript Project 26 Apr 2010 | 12:19 am
A quick tip for all not seeing their embeded fonts when compiling pure AS project with Flex SDK 4: [Embed(source="assets/fonts/my-cool-font.otf", fontFamily="CoolFont", fontWeight="normal", mimeType='...
VMware Player / Workstation Mouse Grab Input Focus Bug 23 Sep 2009 | 08:47 am
To fix the recent bug with VMware Player 2.5.3 and Workstation 6.5.3 Build 185404 under Karmic Koala Ubuntu just paste this line in your console before launching vmplayer/vmware: export VMWARE_USE_SHI...
Papervision3d – ERROR: lookAt error 7 Sep 2009 | 09:33 pm
If you get this error on each frame then you have probably moved the camera to the same position as the object (camera.z = 0). Change it a bit and the error should be fixed.
Custom Skinnable Slider Component for Adobe Flex 3 15 Aug 2009 | 02:37 am
First of all let me apologize for not blogging in a while but I’ve been working on couple of interesting projects after which it was time for deserved vacation on the BlackSea’s beaches. Anyway I need...
MDADM RAID Failed After Upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 24 Apr 2009 | 07:37 pm
With no surprise the update from Interpid Ibex to Jaunty Jackalope was not as easy as I hoped. After booting the fresh 2.6.28 kernel I was welcomed with “Press enter for maintenance (or type Control-D...
Seagate 7200.11 BSY State Data Recovery 10 Apr 2009 | 11:58 pm
One not-so-beautiful morning I woke up just to find out that my Seagate 7200.11 500GB hard drive is not detected from my BIOS. Unfortunately it was a well know problem which have three solutions: Repl...
