Hyperledger Fabric is a consortium blockchain system. It’s performance is relatively good and its modular architecture enables it to be usable in many scenarios. Hyperledger Fabric itself has rich documents and samples of test networks. For beginners, deploying a new network for trying and testing still consumes quite some time. In this post, we will
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How to synchronize OneDrive and OneDrive for Business files in Linux using Insync
Posted onOneDrive is one of the good cloud storage services available and there is a business version called OneDrive for Business. Microsoft’s Office 365 plan is widely used including Exchange Email service and OneDrive for Business. However, there is no official client released yet for Linux users. Insync is a third party cloud storage syncing software
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Synchronizing Thunderbird Calendar and Address Book with Office365 Exchange Online using ActiveSync
Posted onThunderbird is a nice email client available on Linux and Windows. With the Lightning plugin, Thunderbird can support calendar functions well. Exchange is a widely used email and calendar/address book service software. Office 365 provide the cloud version of Exchange named Office 365 Exchange Online. Although Exchange Online provide IMAP for synchronizing emails, it provides
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Thunderbird Addons to Make Thunderbird Easier to Use
Posted onThunderbird is powerful and feature rich. But different users have different needs and it is not feasible to include all features into the base software, where a plugin system shines. Thunderbird, similar to Firefox from Mozilla, supports addons/plugins and has a large ecosystems. Here, we will introduce several addons to Thunderbird that make Thunderbird easier
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How to disable the fastestmirror yum plugin in CentOS 7 Linux?
Posted onHow to disable the fastmirror yum plugin in CentOS 7 Linux? The fastestmirror function of yum is provided by the package `yum-plugin-fastestmirror`. However, because `yum` depends on it, the `yum-plugin-fastestmirror` package can not be removed. If you try to remove it, `yum` will report failures like. # yum remove yum-plugin-fastestmirror Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Resolving Dependencies
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How to remove the bottom panel in gnome 3 classic?
Posted onThe gnome 3 classic’s bottom panel looks not useful to me. I do not use it. How to remove the bottom panel in gnome 3 classic? That bottom panel is from the “Window List” plugin. The gnome 3 classic package depends on that plugin package on CentOS 7 as far as I checked. And Gnome
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How to set up HP printer and scaner on CentOS 7?
Posted onHow to set up the driver for an HP all-in-one printer/scanner on CentOS 7 Linux? First, install these packages and it may ask you to download and install other plugins. Without these packages, my printer does work. # yum install hplip hplip-gui hpijs Second, install plugins for the HP printer. # hp-plugin Then you can
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How to install Flash Player plugin on CentOS 7?
Posted onFirefox on CentOS7 does not have Flash enabled by default. How to install Flash Player plugin on CentOS 7? You may follow this tutorials to build a freshwrapper based flash plugin for Firefox on CentOS 7. If you don’t want to build it by yourself, you may download the pre-built .so from from this repository.
How to run firefox under different profiles simultaniusly?
Posted onFirefox has multiple profiles and I am aware of choosing them by invoking firefox with the -P option. But I find that after one firefox instance under one profile is running, even I choose another profile during starting with -P, the new instance is still running under the existing profile. How to run firefox with
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Block Ads in WordPress, while mobile view
Posted onHi there, Quite recently I’ve created a native app (webview app)of my wordpress website and this wordpress site is using responsive theme as well. Now I want to publish this app at play store. The problem is that Adsense are not allowed to be shown in a native android app. So I want to know
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Vim turns to be slow after enabling some plugins, how to find which leads the problem?
Posted onVim itself is very fast. But it turns to be slow after enabling some plugins. How to find which plugin leads the slowness of Vim? You may use the profiling mechanisms in Vim. Please check a tutorial on profiling Vim. For profiling Vim startup: vim –startuptime profile.log For profiling certain actions in Vim: :profile start
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How to make WordPress regenerate the thumbnails after I changing the media aspects?
Posted onI recently changes the media aspects. The problem is that the existing thumbnails are not changed to the new aspects. How to make WordPress regenerate the thumbnails after I changing the media aspects? The “Regenerate Thumbnails” works like a charm for me: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ . It allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail
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How to make taglist recognize specific files with certain extensions as C source files?
Posted onHow to make taglist recognize specific files with certain extensions as C source files? You may try adding this line to your ~/.vimrc: autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.c0 set filetype=c Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9013263/vim-tagslist-plugin-not-detecting-custom-language-racket
How to install WordPress Buddy Press template?
Posted onHow to install WordPress Buddy Press template? Themes for BuddyPress are available at:http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tags/buddypress Make sure that the theme tagged as “buddypress” is compatible with the BP/WP version activated in your server. As of BuddyPress 1.7, BuddyPress works with most any WordPress out of the box. BuddyPress 1.7 includes base template files that should fit into
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How to install multiple versions of sbt on my Linux host?
Posted onHow to install multiple versions of sbt on my Linux host For example, some projects use 0.12.x while some use 0.13.x. Installing neither in the system only is not sufficient enough. You may use the excellent sbt-extras: https://github.com/paulp/sbt-extras Most of the time, it detects the version of sbt needed in the project direoctory automatically: [zma@office
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How to package a Scala project to a .jar with sbt?
Posted onHow to package a Scala project to a .jar file with sbt? Manually packaging the .class files are fine but too tedious. A jar of just the project classes The command: sbt package will produces the main artifact as a jar into target/scala-2.x.y/project_name_2.x.y-zz.jar. Continuously building the package: sbt ~package Standalone jar with all dependencies If
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Add my own window.onload safely without overwriting old ones
Posted onMy webpage has one existing window.onload javascript function defined by a javascript plugin in the <head> section. Now, I defined a new one and add it to the end of the HTML page: <script type=”text/javascript”> window.onload = function () { // great work here } </script> I find the new one overwrites the old one
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How to allow contributors to Upload Files in wordpress
Posted onHow to allow contributors to Upload Files in wordpress? I allow my wordpress site’s contributors to submit posts. But by default, WordPress contributors do not have the capability to upload files. How to allow them to upload files? The key to my solution to add the upload files capability to contributors in WordPress is the
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Import Evolution mail directory to Thunderbird/imap account
Posted onI have some old emails left in the Evolution local directory (unfortunately not in the mail server’s imap directory). So how to import the Evolution directory which contains some files for the emails to Thunderbird so that I can copy them to the imap directory if needed? You can do this in two steps: First,
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How to install JRE for Chrome on Linux x86-64
Posted onHow to install JRE for Chrome on Linux x86-64? Use JRE from Oracle on Fedora Linux x86-64 as the example: Download jre from http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp?locale=en#lin . Select Linux x64. Install it by # yum install jre-7u40-linux-x64.rpm (the downloaded rpm). Make a softlink of the plugin:$ cd ~/.mozilla/plugins/; ln -s /usr/java/jre1.7.0_40/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so ./ Restart Chrome and browse chrome://plugins/
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