Howto: Install TRENDnet Wireless Network Card on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)

Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) - TRENDnet Wireless PCI Adapter

apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils ndisgtk

# install windows drivers (select 32 or 64 bit drivers)
# (*.sys file should also be present near net819xp.inf)
ndiswrapper -i /path/to/drivers/Windows\ 2000/net819xp.inf

# test install
# should output something like:
# net819xp : driver installed
# device (10EC:8190) present
ndiswrapper -l

# bring up ndiswrappwer
sudo modprobe ndiswrappwer

# add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules
# add a new line with text: ndiswrapper
sudo gedit /etc/modules

# configure wireless interface
sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

# type the following info (example for WPA or WPA2 encryption):
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid wlan_home
wpa-psk xx00-xx00-xx00

# restart networking
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

DONE!

Google IMAP and SMTP client settings

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smtp.gmail.com 587 STARTTLS

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Romanian political parties statistics

Comparative charts:

PDL, PSD, PNL
PDL - Democratic Liberal Party (en) - Partidul Democrat Liberal (ro)
PSD - Social Democratic Party (en) - Partidul Social Democrat (ro)
PNL - National Liberal Party (en) - Partidul National Liberal (ro)

PDL, PSD, PNL, UDMR, PRM, UNPR
PDL - Democratic Liberal Party (en) - Partidul Democrat Liberal (ro)
PSD - Social Democratic Party (en) - Partidul Social Democrat (ro)
PNL - National Liberal Party (en) - Partidul National Liberal (ro)
UDMR - The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (en) - Uniunea Democrata Maghiara din Romania (ro)
PRM - The Greater Romania Party (en) - Partidul Romania Mare (ro)
UNPR - National Union for the Progress of Romania (en) - Uniunea Nationala pentru Progresul Romaniei (ro)

How to redirect non-www to www

Howto 301 ( permanent ) redirect non www to www

301 (permanent) redirect all non-www requests to www.

Apache webserver with mod_rewrite enabled; apache.conf or .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com/? [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

This will redirect requests to all pages to www. domain.

Javascript email obfuscator

Javascript email obfuscator function:

function obfEm(_a_id, _part1, _part2, _innerHTML, _part3) {
    if(document.getElementById(_a_id)) {
        var txt1 = _part1;
        var txt2 = _part2;
        var txt3 = _part3;
   
        var ar_mt1 = ['m', 'a', 'i'];
        var ar_mt2 = ['l', 't', 'o'];
   
        var em = new Array();
        em[0] = txt1;
        em[1] = '@';
        em[2] = txt2;
        em[3] = '.';
        em[4] = txt3;

        var ems = em.join('');
        var mts = ar_mt1.join('') + ar_mt2.join('');
       
        document.getElementById(_a_id).href = mts + ':' + ems;
        document.getElementById(_a_id).innerHTML = _innerHTML.length > 0 ? _innerHTML : ems;
    }
}

Javascript email obfuscator HTML:

<script type="text/javascript">

obfEm('a1', 'contact', 'office-space', 'person-name-optional', 'com')

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

obfEm('a2', 'contact', 'office-space', '', 'com')

</script>

Change blogspot title format for posts

1) Go to Design -> Edit HTML

2) Locate section "<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>" and replace it with the following:

<title>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

<data:blog.pageName/> - <data:blog.title/>

<b:else/>

<data:blog.pageTitle/>

</b:if>

</title>

This will display the title for post pages like this:
"<data:blog.pageName/> - <data:blog.title/>"
Post 1 title - Main blog title

Choose Preview & Save Template or just Save Template.

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MySQL UNIX_TIMESTAMP howto: date and datetime fields operations (common)

MySQL UNIX_TIMESTAMP examples

• set date to current date for all items having dates bigger than 24 hours in the future

UPDATE table_name SET data = now() WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(data) > UNIX_TIMESTAMP() + 24 * 60 * 60;

• delete all entries older than 30 days (having date smaller than current time minus 30 days)

DELETE FROM table_name WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(data) < UNIX_TIMESTAMP() - 30 * 24 * 60 * 60;

Both above examples make use of UNIX_TIMESTAMP function.

"Uniunea Europeana" in presa din Romania

Numar aparitii "Uniunea Europeana" in presa din Romania.

Care sunt tarile europene despre care se vorbeste cel mai des in presa din Romania?

Numar aparitii in presa din Romania

Tarile europene in presa din Romania:
anglia, austria, belgia, bulgaria, cipru, cehia, danemarca
estonia, finlanda, franta, germania, grecia, irlanda, italia
letonia, lituania, luxembourg, malta, olanda, polonia, portugalia
slovacia, slovenia, spania, suedia, ungaria

Alte tari din Uniunea Europeana:
PIIGS
Diverse: franta, germania, austria, polonia, finlanda, norvegia, suedia