Author Archives: farter
Running OSQA with Nginx and uWSGI: VirtualHosting Mode with DynamicApps
Following on the previous post about OSQA installation, this post discusses the co-existence of OSQA with other WSGI-compliant web applications supported by uWSGI. As has been shown in the post linked above, installing OSQA with Nginx, uWSGI and SQLite3 on … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Web
Tagged DynamicApps, Nginx, SQLite3, Ubuntu, VPS, VirtualHosting, lucid, osqa, server, uWSGI
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Installing OSQA with Nginx, uWSGI and SQLite3 on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) Minimal
OSQA is an open-source django-based implementation of the famous Stack Overflow Q&A community infrastructure. Its codebase was largely inherited from a Chinese project CNProg, which, for various unfortunate reasons, has closed its community site and virtually stopped development since earlier … Continue reading
Accessing Operating System Clipboard in Chromium (Chrome) Extensions
Earlier this year, Webkit disabled clipboard access of web pages by default for security reasons (see this changelog and this bug report). Programming-wise, this means good old document.execCommand(‘Copy’) and document.execCommand(‘Paste’) will always return false. This is indeed quite understandable, and … Continue reading
Posted in Chromium extension
Tagged Chrome, Chromium, JavaScript, browser, clipboard, extension
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Setting a Default Zoom Level for Chrome Browser
Update (2018-5-28): I don’t know why, but apparently people are still coming to this page after all these years, so here is the most up-to-date info: in recent Chromium/Chrome, simply click on the vertical ellipsis ‘⋮’ icon to the right of the … Continue reading
HiMedia HD300A (RTD1073) TTL Serial Pinout
The other day I ordered one of those HD (which is conveniently capable of standing for both High Definition and Hard Drive) media player boxes. After roughly 2-3 years in the market, such products have really come a long way … Continue reading
Running 2.6.36 kernels on SmartQ5
With the release of 2.6.35 kernel, basic support for SmartDevices SmartQ series MIDs has now been officially merged into mainline linux source trees ([1]). ‘Series’ here is certainly an overstatement, as there have only been two: SmartQ5 and SmartQ7. These S3C6410-based … Continue reading
Merging Two PhpBB Forums Together
Browsing through my sourceforge account, I realized there still was a ‘zombie’ GeeXboX for Wii forum left there. I thought maybe I could merge the few posts there into the slightly more active and up-to-date GeeXboX for Wii forum and opt out … Continue reading
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