Firefox, Flashgot and JDownloader

Firefox is one of the best modern browsers.

JDownloader is one of the best free download managers.

Flashgot is the addon for firefox that can integrate various download manager like JDownloader with Firefox.

Flashgot has the function to detect the download manager installed on the machine and it does support JDownloader.

In another way, JDownloader supports installation of Flashgot in Firefox and integration of them with JDownloader by providing a button.

But JDownloader’s button to do so does not work (in my case) with later Firefoxes.

I carried out the following procedure to integrate Flashgot with JDownloader.

Add a development domain (.dev) in MAC XAMPP

I was trying laravel PHP framework and setup a laravel.dev domain for testing.

Here are the high level steps on how I did it.

1. add domain in host file
2. enable virtual host in XAMPP
3. add virtual host in XAMPP

Install Pentaho 4.5 CE as service on Windows 7 x64

Pentaho is an open source Business Intelligence suite. I installed the server according to these very informative posts and had been working with the server with bundled script to start and stop.

I tried to install service and the service simply cannot run though successfully installed. (Bundled Pentaho 4.5 only includes Tomcat 6 32-bit. It can be started with bundled start-pentaho.bat and it can be installed as service using bundled service.bat)

After so many searches, trials and errors, I have successfully installed the Pentaho 4.5 as service on my Windows 7 64 bit. The following content describes how did I do it.

Content

• Some information
• Install JDK and configure
• Replace tomcat 6
• Install and configure service
• Q&A
• Sources

Using many version of firefox

Mozilla team is actively releasing the Firefox recently. It is a good thing and welcomed by many Firefox lovers. Just a thing, not every addon is compatible with the newly released Firefox. Until the addons you used are fully compatible with the latest one, you have to hold your urge to update the firefox or just ignore the addons.

There is a way to run two or more firefoxes (in PC), you need to

• install the firefoxes to different folder
• create separate profile for each firefox
• change shortcuts to run with separate profile

My tools and gadgets

Desktop Computer

Mac mini July 2011 model (Core i5 2.3 GHz, 8GB of DDR3 1333MHz, 500GB, AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256MB)

Monitor: ViewSonic VX2250 (1920×1080)

Mouse: A4Tech N600X

Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000

OS: Lion OS X 10.7.5 10.8.2, Windows 7 with BootCamp

Laptop

Dell LatitudeE6520 (Core i7 2.80GHz, DDR3 8GB , HDD 320GB, 15.6” Screen)

OS: Windows 7

Netbook

MSI Wind U160DX (Atom N455, DDR3 1GB, HDD 250GB, 10” Screen)

OS: LMDE 2012 04, Windows 7

Phone

Nokia N95 8GB iPhone 5 16GB Black

Tablet

iPad 1 WiFi only 16GB black

Headphone

Sennheiser HD205

HDD & Portable HDD

320GB WD Blue, 500GB WD Green, 1500GB Seagate Barracuda,  500GB Verbatim Portable HDD

Accessories

Belkin USB Hub, Fujitsu external DVD writer, USB 2.0 to SATA cable, Orico HDD Dock, Apple TV 3rd Generation

My project in BSc (hons) BIT

The project I wrote for my BSc (hons) BIT, University of Greenwich, MCC campus is up as a demo in the following address.

The project is about fictionous ABC bookstore selling Myanmar books

demo ABC bookstore

[fixed] Fail to insert dummy STA entry for the AP (error -17)

error

• My linux couldn’t connect to WiFi

• dmesg in terminal shows

    [ XXX.XXXXXX] wlan0: failed to insert Dummy STA entry for the AP (error -17)
  

• same problem described here