noip2 is a dynamic update client for No-IP to keep your current IP address synchronized with your No-IP domain, no matter whether the IP is dynamically requested via DHCP or static assigned. Furthermore, with the domain name, we can host site using a “static” domain whose CNAME points to the No-IP domain. noip2 is a
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ASCII Table and ASCII Code
Posted onThis post gives the ASCII table and ASCII code with ASCII control characters and ASCII printable characters and a tool to convert ASCII codes to ASCII characters. Introduction to ASCII table and ASCII code ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. An ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character since computers
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How to Print Notes on a PDF File with Acrobat, Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader
Posted onPrint PDF with notes is not that straightforward, especially when you want specific styles of the printed notes/comments. In this post, we introduce how to print notes on a PDF file with Acrobat, Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader. Acrobat The detailed method is posted on Adobe’s blog: Printing Sticky Notes on a PDF. Excerpt of
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Essential Firefox Add-ons to Make Firefox Better
Posted onFirefox is highly configurable and there are lots add-ons for it. Addons make Firefox to be good. In this post, I list a set of the best add-ons that I use daily and make my life easier and happier. Essential Firefox addons Screengrab! to make screenshots and save to files or to clipboard. Foxy Gestures
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How to Disable WordPress Visual Editor
Posted onThe visual editor provides a visual editor to write and format posts. However, it tries to format the HTML tags written in the HTML editor when turning to the visual editor, and may delete some HTML tags and screw up HTML tags. Even when we set the editor to HTML editor, WordPress may automatically turn
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CloudFlare with DreamHost
Posted onCloudFlare is a very nice service that provides CDN / optimizer / security protection and more. Good news is that DreamHost turns to be a partner with CloudFlare. The free account on CloudFlare is enough for sites such as Fclose.com. I enabled CloudFlare yesterday and it works smoothly and boosts the site’s performance. Overall, I
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A Free Personal WordPress Blog Solution
Posted onIf you want to have a wordpress blog for FREE co.cc + x10hosting is the best choice. I will introduce both in this post. I will briefly introduce how to set up a wordpress blog like my blog. The overall that I paid for this blog is only $0.89. I can say that it is
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An Online JPG to EPS Converter
Posted onConverting the JPG images to EPS is frequently need especially when write documents in LaTeX. I introduced how to Convert JPG Images to EPS on Linux. However, not everyone have a Linux box available at any time. We set up an Online JPG to EPS Converter to help people convert JPG to EPS. Convert JPG
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Speeding Up the Site With Apache GZIP Compression
Posted onWe can speed up the site with compression while save bandwidth at the same time. As most of the modern browsers support gzip encoding, we can set it up to let the users enjoy faster speed. The Apache mod_deflate is easy to set up and standard. It compress the content on the fly. We can
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Put the Categories, Archives and All Posts into Pages
Posted onI prefer putting pages that contains all the categories, archives and even all the posts in one page to putting these links in the side bar. Actually, most of time it needn’t to stay on every pages. And if it is in the side bar, the search engine will see these links in every page
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Using noindex Meta Tag in WordPress to Prevent Search Engines Indexing Categories, Tags and Archives
Posted onWordPress may show “duplicate” content which may potentially confuse search engines. Duplicate content won’t hurt much, unless it is spam or keyword stuffing, as said by Matt Cutts, and Google may just ignore the duplicate content. However, instead of letting the search engines decide which pages of the duplicate ones are important, we may only
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How to Change the Site’s Default 404 Error Not Found Page
Posted onThe apache’s default “404 Error not found” page seems ugly. And may some hosting service put theire ads in it. We can add some entry in .htaccess to change the defualt 404 error page. This method can also be used for some other error codes. A list of the server returned codes can be found
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Quickly Copying Text to a File
Posted onCopying some text to a new file is a common operation on Linux. I usually do this by opening the file with ‘vim’, pasting the text in ‘vim’, and then saving the file. I learned a more efficient and quicker way from my advisor during one discussion with him when I show him some results.
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How to Install Xen on Fedora as Domain-0 (Fedora 17)
Posted onThe new development of Xen and Linux kernel make it easy to install Xen on Fedora as the Domain-0 now. This post uses Fedora 17 as an example platform to introduce how to set up Domain-0 on Fedora Linux. Compared to our old method (https://www.systutorials.com/setting-up-stable-xen-dom0-with-fedora-xen-3-4-3-with-xenified-linux-kernel-2-6-32-13-in-fedora-12/) which requires manually compiled Xen and patched kernel, the current
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How to Disable IPv6 on Linux
Posted onIPv6 is enabled by default on most Linux distros. However, IPv6 is not used for some situations for most of time and it may cause troubles and requires effort to protect the network and ensure the security. This post introduces how to disable IPv6 support on Linux (newer modern Kernel versions). First, add these lines
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How to Use MPlayer to Play DVD Directories / ISO Files / Disks
Posted onMPlayer is a universal (nearly) movie/music player on Linux and many more systems. It’s also my favourite player and MPlayer plays movie or music files in any format that I drop to it. Now, let’s take a look at how to use MPlayer play DVD. MPlayer plays “DVD” in many formats: DVD disks, ISO files,
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Extending a LVM Volume Group
Posted onWe introduced how to create a LVM group with two hard disk partitions, which the LVM group can be used for [[setting-up-lvm-backed-xen-domu|installing LVM backed Xen DomUs]]. The LVM volume can have large capacity from several hard disks. However, we may use all the disk space after some time and we may need to extend the
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Converting Video Files for iPod/iPhone/iPad
Posted onWe usually have video files in .wmv .mpg .rmvb or .mkv formats. The iPod, iPhone or iPad only accept a limited number of video file types, such as .mov and .mp4. To play these video files in .wmv .mpg or .rmvb format, we should first convert them to .mov or .mp4 files that can played
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How to Set Up and Configure NFS Server and Clients
Posted onNFS is widely deployed and used even after more than twenty year. NFS is easy to set up and easy to use. This introduces how to set up the NFS server and clients. We use the Fedora system as the example. The tutorial here is for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora and derived Linux OSes. Set up an NFS
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How to Upgrade Fedora to Newer Version with Yum
Posted onThe latest tools for upgrading Fedora is FedUp, please check How to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 through the network. Please consider PreUpgrade for upgrading Fedora. This is the recommended method. This post makes a list of actions should be done to upgrade Fedora using yum. Please note that this is for experienced users
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