Author: Andrey Mikhalchuk

Posted in Hardware How To Linux Robotics

How to take apart a Linksys WRT54G router

Linksys WRT54G router and similar are very famous because of great modifications potential hidden in the device. For some purposes you may want to add a serial port to the router. You may need that for development purposes or to turn the router into a robot for instance. This post…

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Posted in Web

Pizza.com domain and website are for sale

One of the websites I’m technically related to is for sale now. Pizza.com could be yours for a reasonable price. If you know how the domain market works you probably know that the reasonable price for such kind of domain names has 7 figures in it. So if you…

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Posted in How To Linux Software

How to automate fdisk (how to partition a lot of disks quickly)

Imagine you need to create say 10 disks with predefined partitions loaded with some software. The ideal solution would be automatic disk partitioning and copying the software to it. While copying files is an easy-to-do everyday procedure partitioning is a bit more tricky (really, just a little bit). Here is…

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Posted in How To Windows

How to enable filmstrip view in Windows Explorer (Windows XP)

Windows explorer in XP has very nice feature of displaying folder contents as a filmstrip. It is very handy to browse lots of images. Unfortunately the logic of turning it on and off this feature doesn’t perfectly match the reality. Here’s explanation how you can enable filmstrip view for your…

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Posted in How To Linux

How to disable automount in linux (Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16)

Imagine you’re repartitioning a disk and when you quit fdisk writing the new partition table automount tries to mount new partitions. So instead of refreshed disk ready for newfs you get this warning:

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old…

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Posted in How To Linux Software Windows

Solving “The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that could not be verified.” problem

Uff that was tough one … If you decided to make your mail communications more secure you probably switched on SSL option in your mail client for POP3/IMAP/SMTP servers. There is a good chance you will get one of those errors that sound like
The server you are connected to is…

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Posted in How To Linux Web

Why *nix md5sum and PHP md5() do not match?

I recently tried to calculate md5 from *nix using md5sum and PHP md5() function. The result might surprise you – they don’t match in the situation you expect them to match. Here is explanation why and how to fix that.

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Posted in Linux Other

MacMail failes while receiving mail using imap from courier mail

As usually there might be a lot of reasons for that. In my case the reason became clear when I checked /var/log/messages:
imapd-ssl: /etc/courier-imap/shared/index: No such file or directory problem. The quick and dirty solution appeared to be really quick.

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Posted in Building your store How To Web

How to install coupons module for osCommerce (notes on installation and configuration)

The purpose of this post is not to replace the original coupons module installation manual, but to provide answers that you might have while installing it. It is based on my own experience and might be different from yours. This post is a part of set related to installing and…

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Posted in Building your store How To Web

How to configure Paypal Website Payments Pro module for osCommerce (notes on installation and configuration)

The purpose of this post is not to replace the original PayPal installation manual, but to provide answers that you might have while installing it. It is based on my own experience and might be different from yours. This post is a part of set related to installing and configuring…

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Posted in Building your store How To Web

How to configure USPS module for osCommerce (notes on installation and configuration)

The purpose of this post is not to replace the original USPS installation manual, but to provide answers that you might have while installing it. It is based on my own experience and might be different from yours. This post is a part of set related to installing and configuring…

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