Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Disable Pulseaudio

If you hate that worthless, piece-of-shit “sound server” they call Pulseaudio and want to prevent it from taking over your whole computer, try this script I found somewhere.
#!/bin/bash
touch ~/.pulse-a11y-nostart
echo autospawn = no|tee -a ~/.pulse/client.conf
killall pulseaudio
Reboot.
Then remove all the PulseShit packages. Sweet Jesus in Heaven, what were the Ubuntu people thinking when they made Pulseaudio the [...]

March 10, 2010 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Software • No Comments

Wordpress upgrading / installation problems

Unable to install new or upgrade themes and plugins? Even though your permissions are ok? It’s a problem that’s got to do with (1) your web host and their incorrectly configured servers and (2) Wordpress not being flexible enough to work around those bad server configs. Here’s a patch that can help.

February 12, 2010 • Tags: , • Posted in: Software • No Comments

Controlling jQuery UI Selectmenu

I’m just started using selectmenu and wanted to share how to control it. It’s not completely obvious to inexperienced jquery UI folks like myself…
Specifying a trigger function
First, we create the selectmenu UI widget from an existing <select> control, with the id=”selectmenu”.
$(“#selectmenu”).selectmenu({
  change: selectmenuChange
});
And selectmenuChange…
function selectmenuChange(event, value)
{
  switch(value.value)
  {
    case 0:
      alert(‘Hello!’);
    break;
  }
  $(“#selectmenu”).selectmenu(“value”, “ignore”); // Put it back on the first option.
}
The last [...]

February 9, 2010 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: Software • No Comments

phpAutoIndex

phpAutoIndex is a PHP5-script that was written to quickly and easily share files and texts amongst friends. It is similar to Apache’s autoindex module in that it lists the files of a directory, but it also allows user to upload files and texts.

February 6, 2010 • Tags: , • Posted in: Software • No Comments

Switchscreen

Switchscreen is a utility to switch monitors. As of v0.1.1 it doesn’t really work properly because of my sloppy window focus setting, but I’ve added some modifications I found in another modified version. Now you can switch between several monitors and yet keep the mouse [...]

February 6, 2010 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Software • No Comments