Fragment of Memories: October 2009

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Codec for Mac

Was looking around for "K-lite Codec Pack" for Mac and found Perian.

"The swiss-army knife for Quick Time".
--Perian

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
-- Perian.org

Files supported:

File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW

Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture

Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO

AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3

Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT

Download site: http://perian.org/#download

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Old song, but still think that its nice :)

周杰伦 Jay Chou - 外婆

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

"Enable" Blogger Flash links

Was trying to solve the problem of links not working for flash in Blogger for the past few days.

Found the links that explain the security changes for Flash 8 and above.

In Flash Player 8, the default for an unspecified allowScriptAccess value remains "always" when the main SWF in Flash Player is version 7 or earlier, but changes to "sameDomain" when the main SWF is version 8 or later.

The allowScriptAccess parameter allows an HTML page to include Flash content but prevents it from executing scripts in the HTML page...

Technical details explained here http://tr.im/D79G.

SOLUTION

For <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">, change the "sameDomain" to "always".

done!

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Found out the problem with the lag for Google Chrome.

Its described in Microsoft KB Article 929868.

To work around with this issue, you can change the Windows Scaling factor to 2. The following steps explains it.

Click Start and type CMD.
Press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to open the command Prompt with Administrative rights.
Type the following and press ENTER

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=highlyrestricted

This will set the autotuninglevel to "Allow the receive window to grow beyond its default value, but do so very conservatively".

Reboot.
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To restore, just type the following:

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

Reboot.
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You can also disable autotuning with the following command:

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel= disable

Reboot.
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Note: This should solve other high-ping related network issue too :)

Saturday, October 24, 2009

U32-to-U8 conversion

/*
 * U32TO8_BIG(c, v) stores the 32-bit-value v in big-endian convention
 * into the unsigned char array pointed to by c.
 */
#define U32TO8_BIG(c, v)    do { \
  u32 x = (v); \
  u8 *d = (c); \
  d[0] = T8(x >> 24); \
  d[1] = T8(x >> 16); \
  d[2] = T8(x >> 8); \
  d[3] = T8(x); \
 } while (0)

/*
 * U32TO8_LITTLE(c, v) stores the 32-bit-value v in little-endian convention
 * into the unsigned char array pointed to by c.
 */
#define U32TO8_LITTLE(c, v)    do { \
  u32 x = (v); \
  u8 *d = (c); \
  d[0] = T8(x); \
  d[1] = T8(x >> 8); \
  d[2] = T8(x >> 16); \
  d[3] = T8(x >> 24); \
 } while (0)

Friday, October 23, 2009

Rabbids Go Home - Failed Attempts - UFO

:) I like Rabbids clips. They r just so amusing. :)

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Change Firefox Address Bar Search Engine

If you, like me, has been the victim of Yahoo Spyware aka Yahoo IM then you may notice that in the firefox location bar if you type in a keyword, it takes you to Yahoo preferences page. Previously it used to perform a Google "I'm Lucky" Search and take you to the first page of its search results automatically.

If you want to restore the Google "I'm Lucky" search then perform this simple steps:
1. Type about:config in Firefox location bar and press Enter
2. Type keyword in Filter textbox and you will see only the preference keyword.URL.
3. Double-click on keyword.URL and change the value to:
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=
or, if you don't wish to go to the first suggested link by Google
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&q=

That's all it takes to restore default keyword search functionality in Google.

Note: You can use this to change to any search engine for keyword search.

Syntax Highlighter 2.1.x for Blogger

Found a useful script to display codes for Blogger - Syntax Highlighter.
http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
or the new site:
http://alexgorbatchev.com/

The setup is very easy.

Just add the following code in your Blogger HTML template, before </body> tag. (Replace the [your-hosting-url] with the URL where your downloaded scripts are hosted.
(mine is binghan.uuuq.com/js/syntaxhighlighter2.1/ in this case, feel free to use :) )

Move on to adding snipped-codes for Blooger. Add the following tag to wrap around your snipped-codes.