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Move Window Buttons Back to the Right in Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10

Press Alt+F2 to bring up the Run Application dialog box, enter "gconf-editor" in the text field and click on Run

The Configuration Editor should pop up.

The key that we want to edit is in the apps/metacity/general.

Click on the + button next to the "apps" folder, then beside "metacity" in the list of folders expanded for apps, and then click on the "general" folder.

The button layout can be changed by changing the "button_layout" key. Double-clicke button_layout to edit it.

Change the text in the Value text field to:
menu:maximize,minimize,close

Click OK and the change will occur immediately, changing the location of the window buttons in the Configuration Editor.

Note that this ordering of the window buttons is slightly different than the typical order; in previous versions of Ubuntu and in Windows, the minimize button is to the left of the maximize button.

You can change the button_layout string to reflect that ordering, but using the default Ubuntu 10.04 theme, it looks a bit strange.

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Remote Into a VirtualBox Appliance

The "magic sauce" is to remote into a headless appliance that way your remote session will automatically re-size. If you launch the appliance with VirtualBox locally and then remote into you cannot re-size it.

The alternative is to use VBoxHeadless directly, as follows:
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxHeadless.exe --startvm "Image Name"

Trouble Shooting

Make sure to turn off 3D video acceleration, it was causing a window to appear on my Windows 7 host, and it interfered with the remote connection.

Had trouble connected to my VM on my LAN, there were multiple Firewall rules with Windows 7.  Ended up deleting all of the rules for both Virtual Box and Headless, and when things started again, it allowed access.  That fixed the problem.

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Turn off Zone Alarm Debug Logging

C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs\tvDebug.log

Here's what to do:

1. Press Cntrl and Shift and Rt- click on the ZA icon in sys tray.
2. Choose set debug level.
3. Click on Off radio at debug categories.
4. Delete tvdebug.log. It resides at C:\Your Win folder\Internet logs
5. Restart your PC

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Joomla installation, remove feed error message in control panel

It's not a bug, you just need to disable the 'Joomla! Security Newsfeed' module

  • Extensions=>Module Manager=>'Administrator' tab
  • disable 'Joomla! Security Newsfeed' module.

Because this module load feed data with link http://feeds.joomla.org/JoomlaSecurityNews, this link is broken, so it pop up a error loading feed data error.

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How to turn off WordPress smart quotes

There are actually a few different ways to do this, including modifying the functions.php file in your theme folder, or modifying the default-filters.php file in your wp-includes folder. But I like creating a separate php file and making it into a WordPress plugin, as described in this post by Katja Stokley. Create a text file called TurnOffSmartQuotes.php and put this in it.

Source Code for TurnOffSmartQuotes.php

Then just upload this file to your wp-content/plugins folder, login to your WordPress dashboard, select "Plugins," and activate your new plugin. You've just turned off smart quotes on your WordPress blog.

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The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost (1874-1963) 1920

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.