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image from www.memcached.org Based on their official website memcached is defined as: Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering. Memcached is simple yet powerful. Its simple design promotes quick deployment, ease of development, and solves many [...]

In the previous days I have noticed that my charger only charges when I keep on moving the charger until today that it no longer works. It no longer charges the battery of my laptop though the LED light is emitting. This is also a common problem for laptop users, I have helped 4 of my friends and solved them all. If you have a problem with your laptop charger and have no budget in buying a new one I [...]

Gpick is an advanced color picker written in C++ using GTK+ toolkit. This application is an alternative for window’s colorpic. One feature I like about this application is the same feature I found on window’s colorpic which shows a magnifier of the area where you want to capture the color. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

image from www.qortuba.org These are some of the tools and commands I use to clean up my ubuntu powered laptop. Cleaning Downloaded and Uninstalled Packages and Dependencies As what I have observed in using ubuntu, most packages are not ready after installation though most of the applications can be downloaded freely from the internet. Just like windows os we need to download packages from trusted sources, and for ubuntu we have the synaptic package manager which helps us which applications [...]

I dual booted both Windows 7 and Backtrack 5 on my Laptop and a problem starts when I used thunderbird on Backtrack Linux because all my mails are on my windows OS. Based on what I know, Thunderbird creates a profile during my first run of thunderbird on windows. Everything is stored in that folder (accounts, mails, extensions, etc.). In linux, I know that thunderbird does the same thing. What I wanted to do was to use only one profile [...]

    I installed Apache, MySQL and PHP on windows 7.  I tried to install drupal version 7.9 and went through an error as shown in the image below: The error “Your web server does not appear to support any common PDO database extensions.” can be fixed by following these steps: Open your php.ini file Around line 966 uncomment the line “extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll” Make sure you have php_pdo_mysql.dll on your ext folder or download it here php_pdo_mysql Restart Apache and you can [...]

  I have been using netbeans PHP as my IDE in developing websites and web applications for my clients. Netbeans is now in version 7.01 and one of the latest feature added is the line wrap feature. If you have problems on how to enable line wrapping, this post is for you. This post is another howto in enabling line wrap in your Netbeans IDE. To start, you need to open your netbeans IDE version 7.01, go to editor tab [...]