http://wp.achituv.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 13 May 2009 22:47:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You're trying to phpize some package, but no matter what you do it complains that it cannot find autoconf? whatever you do it throws at you: Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable is set correctly and then rerun this script I've been stuck with this ... http://wp.achituv.com/?p=12 I've been integrating my uncle's corporate cookie gift baskets website with Google Checkout. Google has done a great job making everything easy and straightforward, and the experience has been delightful. Except that it is terribly broken. Google offers three methods of determining shipping costs: Flat-rate, Carrier-Calculated and Merchant-Calculated. Carrier-Calculated-Shipping provides the merchant ... http://wp.achituv.com/?p=11 Ever had to read an HFS partition on a PC? from what I found - HFSExplorer is the best option out there (and of course, it is free). The downside is that it is a standalone application rather than a 'driver/plugin' so you can't mount the partition - which wouldn't ... http://wp.achituv.com/?p=10 One of the annoying things on my MacBook Pro is that the speaker volume is too low. It is even more annoying when QuickTime is for some reason playing the file at a low volume so that it is very hard to hear even though both QT volume and system ... http://wp.achituv.com/?p=9 I ordered some resistors/capacitors from PartsStore Online, the purchase was made on eBay, the confirmation e-mail arrived from "orders@partstore.com" and the email said to contact another address, this time at "partsearch.com". Oh, well. The phone number on the e-mail was different from the ones on either website. Strange. After a couple of ... http://wp.achituv.com/?p=7 Finally a solution to this annoying bug (feature?)! If you're using Firefox+TabMixPlus and the new edition of GMail (which is now available also for Google-Apps users) you must have noticed that Gmail stops functioning entirely after downloading an attachment. Hitting back doesn't resolve this, so you must reload GMail entirely. To avoid ... http://wp.achituv.com/?p=6 I was excited to share my discoveries about how to upload files in an AJAX-like manner (without refreshing the page) but this guy did such a good job - I just decided to link to him... (see: http://probonogeek.blogspot.com/2008/05/ajax-file-upload-cake-is-lie.html) http://wp.achituv.com/?p=5 A friend of mine keeps her router's SSID hidden, which is a good practice. Sure, it is not really more secure against a hacker who has half a brain, but it does a pretty good job at preventing random people from poking at your router or trying to guess your ... http://wp.achituv.com/?p=4 Got my new camera last week. My cats aren't used to being photographed without a flash, finally I am able to take a picture of Gizmo with his eyes open! [SCSI's reflexes were never as fast, so I do have pictures of him with his eyes open ;-) ] (Gizmo) (SCSI) http://wp.achituv.com/?p=3