Enable USB debugging.
Connect your phone to your computer.
Bring up a command prompt.
Change to android-sdk-windows directory.

adb remount
adb shell
cd system/media/audio/ui
mv camera_click.ogg camera_click.og_
mv VideoRecord.ogg VideoRecord.og_

Source: http://android.modaco.com/topic/319541-camera-shutter-sound/
Reference: http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/06/how-to-set-up-adb-usb-drivers-for-android-devices/

Hardware Specs:

• Motherboard: MSI P67A-C43 B3
• CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K
• Memory: Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 Vengeance 2x4GB DDR3
• Video: MSI R5450-MD1GD3H 1GB DDR3
• Case: Thermaltake V3 Black Edition
• Power: Diablotek PSDA600 DA Series 600W
• Storage: Seagate ST31000520AS Barracuda 1TB 5900 RPM

My GO-TO Linux distro is Ubuntu, so I happily the downloaded the latest 64-bit server edition, 11.04. I copy the ISO to my 16 GB SanDisk Cruzer USB stick using the UNetbootin software mentioned as an alternative to usb-creator in the Ubuntu docs.

Now we get ready to install. After plugging in the USB drive and booting the computer with the USB drive, I’m presented with various boot options. I go with the default. A few seconds later, my computer restarts. I can’t get through the install without the computer restarting at seemingly random intervals.

After thorough research, most options recommend appending expert acpi=off to the install command. After doing this, I am at least partially successful (after a few restarts when my USB keyboard wasn’t recognized).  I am able to install the operating system. However, when the installation is complete and I reboot, the operating system never successfully loads. Instead, my computer endlessly reboots, attempts to load OS, fails and reboots.

After more reading (1, 2), commentators recommend that I edit the grub boot configuration and append acpi=off to the boot command, run update-grub and restart. This DID NOT WORK for me. You can test to see if it does work by editing the boot command by typing ‘e’ when you see the grub boot loader screen.

The Grub bootloader screen

Editing the Grub boot record

After sleeping on it, I did even more research (1) on what ACPI does. Now, since I have super new hardware, I hardly expected Linux to support its cutting edge features. So what are those cutting edge features? Besides a clickable BIOS, most of those features pertain to new power management features of the newest Intel CPUs.

New power-related BIOS features (and my recommended states):

• EuP 2013 (Enabled)
• CPU Phase Control (Disabled)
• C1E Support (Disabled)
• Intel C-State (Disabled)

Through brute force, I was able to determine which power settings affected the Linux boot process. I had to fully disable the Intel CPU-related power management. This unfortunately means that my server will waste power when it’s not under load. Too bad, huh?  Oh yeah, I reinstalled Ubuntu Server 11.04 after disabling these power settings in BIOS — you know, just in case.

So in summary, 1: disable CPU phase control, 2: disable C1E support, and 3: disable Intel C-State. EuP 2013 can remain enabled, as I didn’t encounter any complications when it was enabled.

One more thing, if you’re doing a fresh install, may I recommend AHCI mode for your SATA drives? Better to do this before you install the OS. This option had nothing to do with the problem stated above, but is good to have.

It's ok to enable AHCI

The problem: Radio input change events in Internet Explorer are not sufficiently executed when triggered using the jQuery.change method, passing in a named function reference as a parameter. The clicked radio button does not remain selected after the event is fired. No radio buttons are selected after the change method is called, even though the function reference is subsequently executed.

The players:
Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, jQuery 1.4.2, 1.4.3, and/or 1.4.4.

Works:
jQuery('input[name="radioSet"]').change(function() { updateDisplay(); });

Doesn’t Work:
jQuery('input[name="radioSet"]').change(updateDisplay);

That input referenced above is supposed to be a collection of radio buttons. In html, it would look like:

<label><input type="radio" name="radioSet" value="42" /> The Answer</label>
<label><input type="radio" name="radioSet" value="?" /> The Question</label>

The updateDisplay is a function defined elsewhere that tries to read the value of the radio group.  It’s defined something like this:

function updateDisplay() {
  var value = jQuery('input[name="radioSet"]').val();
  if( value == "?" ) {
    alert("What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?");
  } else {
    alert("Don't forget your towel.");
  }
}

The bewildered developer asks no further questions. There is no good reason for using Internet Explorer. The IE developers eat kittens. This is just another demonic prank of theirs. I hope you haven’t wasted too much time trying to figure this out.

I’m scrolling through my apache error logs, when I notice a 404 for a lower-case version of the unique URL described above. When I traceroute the location of access, I notice the access came from an MSN machine in a different location than the person I had intended to send the link to. The intended recipient had not left the state, let alone city, so it’s impossible that the accessor of the link is the intended recipient. I know that this person has not forwarded or shared the URL, and I’m fairly confident that there is no spyware on this person’s computer.

The only logical explanation is that MSN (hotmail) is skimming emails, harvesting URLs to populate the Microsoft search engine.

If the above explanation holds, there are two very big problems with this practice. First, it’s a violation of user privacy. Second, it’s a security risk. Imagine if the custom URL had an email address embedded in it? Or worse, some confidential data. Since the MSN link harvester followed the URL, it has unsuspectingly provided this private data to 3rd party machine via http server logs.

Want to embarrass someone? Send an email to someone with an @hotmail.com address, where the body of the message is  a bunch of URLs to sites of ill repute.  Include a url parameter implicating various members of congress (or other organization).  Have site’s records subpoenaed/published (perhaps a bit tricky, unless you happen to own the site of ill repute).  Let important persons attempt to explain how their credentials ended up in site’s records.

I do not recommend this, but maybe someone will finally hold Microsoft accountable for its invasion of privacy.

TL;DR I emailed a URL to a friend with an @hotmail.com email address, an MSN bot followed the URL.  Hotmail.com does not protect its users’ privacy.

EDIT: It was brought to my attention that I have overlooked the possibility of clicked links being tracked and followed.  This would be similar to the BingGate scandal from a few weeks ago.  Refutation: Bing is only tracking visited content.

touch ~/.forward
chmod 644 ~/.forward
vi ~/.forward

Contents of ~/.forward should be a comma or newline separated list of email addresses to forward mail to.  The following are correctly formatted: .forward files and a brief description of each.

Forward all local email to email@example.com:

email@example.com

Forward all local email to both email@example.com and alternate@domain.com:

email@example.com, alternate@domain.com

Use the local mail spool, keep a copy in the user’s ~/archive/mail file, and forward a copy to email@example.com:

\user, "/home/user/archive/mail", email@example.com

The permissions of the .forward file must be read-only for group and other. Failure to secure your .forward file will cause sendmail to ignore its existence.

GOTCHA!

CHECK TABLE mytable QUICK reported ‘warning : Keyfile is almost full, 17179867136 of 17179867136 used’ Then myisamchk -dv mytable reported similar information under ‘Max keyfile length,” and reported “Keyfile pointer (bytes): 3′

After a little digging around, I realized that a 3-byte keyfile pointer only allows the index file to hold 2^24 blocks (about 16 million blocks of 1024 bytes each). My index file was holding about 110 keys per block (e.g., each record needed 4 bytes for the key value, plus 4 bytes for the datafile pointer, and maybe one byte for null/housekeeping, and then each block kept a little more empty space). So the 3-byte keyfile pointer only allowed MySQL to index about 1.8 billion records. Then it gave up, leaving a corrupted index file.

I have found no documentation for how MySQL decides how big a keyfile pointer to use in the .MYI file. I had no trouble adding 3-4 billion records to the MYD file, so it didn’t occur to me that there would be a problem with the MAX_ROWS clause of the CREATE TABLE command (which I hadn’t specified). But that turned out to be the problem.

I recovered my data table without the index file, then issued ALTER TABLE MAX_ROWS=4000000000, ADD INDEX (mykey); and now it looks like everything will be OK.

Here’s how I got my table back, without the index file (similar to what’s described above):

1. make a backup of the data file (mytable.myd), just in case
2. create a new empty table with the same structure as the existing table, but no index keys.
3. copy the .FRM and .MYI files from the new (empty) table over the existing mytable.frm and mytable.myi files.
4. issue REPAIR TABLE mytable USE_FRM; It is very important to include the USE_FRM clause. That way, MySQL knows to make a new (empty) .MYI file that matches the .MYD file, rather than truncating the .MYD file to match the .MYI file. You will eventually get a message along the lines of “Number of rows changed from 0 to xxxx”.
5. Now you have a working table, with no indexes. Then you can set MAX_ROWS to something appropriate, and try again to make the indexes.

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /var/www/default/docs/out/lib/lib/_php---obj---FFT.php.html on line 1, referer:...

I wanted script.php.html to be treated as an HTML file and not be processed by the php engine.  This double-extension was causing me grief.  The docs claimed that only files ending in the extension will be handled by the AddHandler command.  I was incredulous of this claim, especially in light of Apache’s ability to do content negotiation with those .var language files.

Q: Why was this happening? I first guessed it may have been due to mod_mime, but quickly ruled that out.  I then guessed it was the MultiView option… Maybe, this is one mechanism that governs content negotiation… The documentation claims:

# The index.html.var file (a type-map) is used to deliver content-
# negotiated documents.  The MultiViews Option can be used for the
# same purpose, but it is much slower.

This statement lead me to suspect that my problem may actually be caused by an issue with the AddHandler option, since an AddHandler command must be executed to associate type-map with that .var extension.

Ah me, time is money, and in the end, I actually didn’t diagnose the problem, but I did discover (by trial and error) a workaround.

In file /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf, I surrounded

AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php

with

<Files ~ "\.php$">
  AddHandler php5-script .php
  AddType text/html .php
</Files>

Now, only files explicitly ending in “.php” will be treated as a php5-script.  Take that!

Together, to be cross-version compliant:

putenv("TZ=America/Los_Angeles");
if( function_exists("date_default_timezone_set") ) { 
 date_default_timezone_set("America/Los_Angeles");
}

We need both to be reverse-compatible with PHP4.