I love Picasa! So what… I am having now around 30,000 photos (at least if Picasa doesn’t lie) and… a problem. Picasa for ages have a problem with big database caching file.  I have a system partition that is only 20GB in size. The problem is that Picasa is holding the thumbnails cached in my [...]

Uwielbiam Polską Trójkę. No i oczywiście jak to w Polsce bywa, musieli utrudnić życie słuchaczom i zamiast używać jakiegoś normalnego formatu streamingu on-line, używają Microsoftowego WMA. Używam FooBar’a więc pojawił się problem, bo on standardowo nie ma odpowiednich wtyczek do odtwarzania takich bajerów. No to co zrobić żeby można się było rozkoszować trójką z foobar’a [...]

Today I had to recover a machine from a disastrous power failure (yes, I had a UPS but it didn’t manage :P). The results was as usual: Kernel panic: Not syncing!! /sbin/init not found Doesn’t sound nice, does it? It wasn’t. My whole /lib was gone… I had to boot with root mounted to my [...]

It appears that jqModal and datePicker have z-index problems. My datepicker appeared below the form inside jqModal. The fix for this is very simple. We have to modify CSS for UI and jqmodal. This is because they don’t set z-index property properly. But we can change it on our own…

This is just a quick tip how to style a jqModal window when we are loading contents via AJAX. There are two possibilites: use ajaxText, but this sometimes is not handy if you have complex styled content from AJAX use blockUI and style the jqModal to show only after the AJAX has been loaded. My [...]

I’ve just got a database dump from Oracle and I wanted to load it into mysql database. It turned out that it has a lot of Oracle specific things, so I decided to play a little with grep and awk to get the things I want.

Recently I’ve needed to upgrade my PC from a command line. After a lot of searching, including Microsoft tech-support where I was told that it’s not possible, I’ve managed to do it using Windows Scripting. Here is a VBS script that does the thing and reboots the machine afterwards:

Today I needed to create a bootable USB stick that does nothing else but just a reboot of the machine. Why? The machine is booting up from network, but the problem is what happens when the network is down or doesn’t reply fast enough. Unfortunately, the PXE didn’t have the option of booting in an [...]

Some time ago I got myself a Nokia E-65 phone in UK’s Three network. It was quite new shiny and fancy. It had Skype running with Three, a bit underfeatured but prepared by Three. The phone however was slow like hell, it didn’t have Polish writing dictionary and hanged from time to time. So I [...]

Dzis przedwigilijny króciutki post jak sobie skonfigurować VoIPa na Nokii E-65 z routerem Linksys WRV200 na przykładzie providera IPFON. Właściwie pisanie howto jest bez sensu, bo bardzo dobra instrukcja jest na stronie IPFON :) Nie zmienia to faktu że miałem kilka problemów z tym cudakiem, wiec stad kilka wskazówek: