A new year quote for myself

Posted under Blogs on December 31st, 2014 by
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods

Site in migration…

Posted under Technical on December 9th, 2014 by
As this site is in migration phase from one host to another, there may be some issues in accessing some pages, some misses here and there. Due to this had to disable friendly URL’s as of now!

Mis-Aligned text in Konsole

Posted under Linux on November 1st, 2014 by
I have started using Monaco as my coding font. I also use this font in Konsole, KDE Terminal emulator. I don’t know since when, but iy has been a while that font in Konsole appears mis-aligned. Monaco is a fixed width font, so this problem is somewhat weird. As usual, a google search took me to this post and made these lines at the end of my ~/.fonts.conf, before 
    
        Monaco
        false
        hintnone
And this has really solved my problem for now.

“Un-Coupling” KMix and Amarok Volumes

Posted under Linux on November 1st, 2014 by
I don’t know since when, but for a while now I am seeing this behavior in my KDE 4.14 desktop that when I increase or decrease volume using KMix, volume in othet KDE applications also increases or decreasing correspondingly. Basically it means, there are no separate controls for KMix and other KDE applications. Tried to search on web, and came across this KDE bug where it explains this is called “flat volumes”. Some people may like this feature, but not me right now. And, Here is how to disable flat volumes. Simply add: 
flat-volumes = no
in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to disable this system wide or in ~/.config/pulse/daemon.conf to disable for the user.

Enable mod_rewrite in apache2

Posted under Technical on November 1st, 2014 by
If wordpress permlinks are not working for you, the first thing you should check is if mod_rewrite module is enabled! Learned this the hard way.
How to check:
Run phpinfo() and in Loaded Modules sections the mod_rewrite should be present. Just do a CTRL-F after running phpinfo() and check if it finds mod_rewrite

Loaded Modules core mod_access_compat mod_so http_core prefork mod_unixd mod_systemd mod_actions mod_alias mod_auth_basic mod_authn_file mod_authz_host mod_authz_groupfile mod_authz_user mod_autoindex mod_cgi mod_dir mod_env mod_expires mod_include mod_log_config mod_mime mod_negotiation mod_setenvif mod_ssl mod_userdir mod_php5 mod_reqtimeout mod_authn_core mod_authz_core

So, if it is not there, edit your /etc/sysconfig/apache2 and add “rewrite” to APACHE_MODULES 
APACHE_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_file authz_host authz_groupfile  authz_user autoindex cgi dir env expires include log_config mime negotiation setenvif ssl userdir php5 reqtimeout authn_core authz_core rewrite"

Restart your apache2 server, if it starts without any errors, run phpinfo. mod_rewrite should be there now!
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