http://ramesh.sri-lankan.net I think that you think that I think... Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:45:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Installing phpMyAdmin is simple as extracting to the www folder, but I install it in a different way, I extract phpMyAdmin in Program Files folder, and configure Apache to map /myadmin to the extracted folder, and make that only accessible by the local machine for security purpose. Alias /myadmin/ "C:/Program Files/phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.2/" ... http://ramesh.sri-lankan.net/2008/10/configuring-phpmyadmin/ I installed my SQL Server 2005 wit the default options and found out that my db collation and the server collation were different that caused my application to throw a collation mismatch exception when comparing. I tried my options, but couldn’t get it working with out changing the server collation to ... http://ramesh.sri-lankan.net/2008/10/change-the-server-collation-of-sql-server-2005/ Enable the mod_rewrite module by uncommenting it from the httpd.conf file. LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so Enable .htaccess configurations by setting AllowOverride to All for the DocumentRoot directory. Options Indexes FollowSymLinks # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed # in .htaccess files. It ... http://ramesh.sri-lankan.net/2008/08/enabling-mod_rewrite-in-apache-2/ I used apache mod_rewrite to create user friendly and search engine optimized urls for sri-lankan.net. Here is how I did it. Using the following .htaccess configuration, I redirected all the requests to index.php. RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] And decide what to show the user by checking $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']... http://ramesh.sri-lankan.net/2008/08/mod_rewrite/ A kindergarten picture of mine, which I found wile scanning my old albums. http://ramesh.sri-lankan.net/2008/08/me-and-my-mum/ I had two different projects in separate subversion repositories and I wanted to merge them together. I found a simple tick like this. $ svnadmin dump srilankan > sri.dump $ svnadmin dump ebizlanka > ebiz.dump $ svnadmin create projects $ svn mkdir file:///home/ramesh/svn/projects/srilankan $ svnadmin load projects --parent-dir srilankan < sri.dump $ svn mkdir file:///home/ramesh/svn/projects/ebizlanka $ svnadmin ... http://ramesh.sri-lankan.net/2008/03/merging-subversion-repositories/ I always get confused with which directory I’m working under. The solution I found is to display the working directory in the bash prompt. This is the single line that does the magic in the ~/.bashrc PS1=[\\w]\\$ http://ramesh.sri-lankan.net/2008/03/show-working-directory-in-bash-prompt/ If you wanna change the timezone of a PHP script, set the timezone environmental variable in your PHP code as simple as shown bellow. http://ramesh.sri-lankan.net/2008/02/change-timezone-of-php/ I had a hard time configuring my U.S. Robotics Wireless USB Adapter in Ubuntu 7.10, at last found out non of the native drives work for it and installed the windows driver with ndiswrapper and disabled all the native usb drivers by adding them to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and boom it ... http://ramesh.sri-lankan.net/2008/02/us-robotics-wireless-usb-adapter-in-ubuntu-710/ I decided to play around with my W800i and hack it's features as I want. I used the Far Manager with SEFP (Sony Ericsson Flash Plugin) to access the phone configuration. Here are the stuff I did with my phone. (Use at your own risk) Remove Camera Sound I wasn't able to ... http://ramesh.sri-lankan.net/2008/01/hacking-w800i/