
Was searching for a calculator that has Hex & Decimal conversion and found out that Google actually has it.
e.g. type “0×6eec in base 10″ in the search field and it will return the result. FYI, 0x means the digits follow are in Hex and base 10 means Decimal
For more information about other Google useful function, check here.
psyber.monkey posted on January 28th, 2008 in Psyber.Monkey category | Nobody dare to comment yet »
 
For some reason, the recent Icedove (aka Thunderbird) version 20.0.0.9-3 in Debian does not work with the latest Enigmail version 0.95.6. No choice, got to downgrade it back to Icedove version 1.5. How ? No worries, apt is a flexible package manager, just “apt-get -t <distribution> install <package name>”.
e .g. apt-get -t unstable install icedove
Have fun !!!
psyber.monkey posted on January 24th, 2008 in Open Source, Psyber.Monkey, Software tips/tricks, linux category | Nobody dare to comment yet »
was searching what is the escape sequence for tab & return, found this cheat sheet. Anyway, below are the common ones :

shamelessly plug it from Laurent Grégoire home page. Thanks Laurent !!!
psyber.monkey posted on January 17th, 2008 in Open Source, Psyber.Monkey, freebsd, linux, unix+freebsd category | Nobody dare to comment yet »

Anyone interested to pre-order Apple Macbook Air?
takizo posted on January 16th, 2008 in Apple, Apple Mac category | Nobody dare to comment yet »
Lately I am working on a simple online test system which doesn’t take up much of my to write the code from scratch. One of my favorite is using propel to generate the admin panel, it’s so easy, quick and code management is clean and neat.
i have a set of questions, for example 100 security related questions but some of the engineer may only need to answer 20 out of 100. And each engineer shouldn’t get the same question and using RAND() is easier for me in order to write – less code.
here is an example how you select random questions from database using propel;
$c = new Criteria();
$c->addAscendingOrderByColumn(‘rand()’);
$c->setLimit(20);
start having fun coding with symfony framework.
takizo posted on January 15th, 2008 in Application category | Nobody dare to comment yet »