Category: Geekery
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Kickass.to is dead, but there are mirror sites like dxtorrent.com, etc
As we all know, Kickass just died 24 hours ago. The owner of the site was arrested by the he U.S. Government 24 hours ago. It’s all over the news. If you still don’t know about the news, just click the “all over” and “the news” hyperlinks that I just typed before this sentence. Right…
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Magento Fix on simplexml_load_string error at lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php
If you’ve noticed that your system.log’s size is increasing every minute because of the error logs like this: Warning: simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php on line 383 2016-06-27T14:01:04+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 292: parser error : expected ‘>’ in /lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php on line 383 2016-06-27T14:01:04+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: simplexml_load_string(): nkey.png</233><234>manufacturers/image.jpg</234><235>manufacturers/image.jpg</ in /lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php on line 383…
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git: User was holding a relation lock for too long
If you encountered this error while pushing your recent change to your git repo, worry not. You’re not alone. Just recently, like a few minutes ago, I’m having trouble pushing my latest commit to my Bitbucket repo. Good thing I found out that it’s just a bitbucket issue, not really an issue with my repo…
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Google Adsense cannot login using Chrome, but in Safari, you can!
If you’ve encountered this issue last year, it seems it’s still not fixed. When attempting to sign in via adsense.google.com using Google Chrome, you’ll be prompted with this error message: “Looks like this Google account isn’t associated with an AdSense account. That’s okay. You can either sign in with the Google account associated with AdSense,…
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3 Important traits of a brilliant app design company
You have your heart set on creating an app for a mobile device. The only problem is that you have no idea how to go about doing it. You have an idea that you think is very good. However, you don’t have any idea what to do with your great idea. You do not possess…
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March 2016 Update: Chrome Dev Tools + Mobile Browser Emulator
All of a sudden, Google Chrome’s mobile browser emulator and developer tools turned to white! Yeah! It’s suddenly updated without prior notice, or even any prompt about it if I want to switch to the new emulator or stick to the old one. The old one looks like this, with grids and a layout that…
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Sony PHA-3 vs Sound Blaster E5: Comparison and Blind Test
For the past few weeks, I’ve been looking for the best portable DAC with sound amplifier that I can use with my Audeze EL-8. I’ve been searching in Youtube for a video review + blind tests, but I found none. After searching and searching and searching, I found two DAC choices that I want to…
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Magento blank sales order view page after SUPEE 7405 patch
If you applied the SUPEE 7405 patch or upgraded to Magento 1.9.2.3 and suddenly you found out that your sales order pages are blank, then here’s a quick fix. Just copy app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Helper/Sales.php to app/code/local/Mage/Adminhtml/Helper/Sales.php, then open it. Find $links = []; then replace it with $links = array(); then save it. Clear your cache and…