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I was doing the usual make dist process to launch a tarball for one of my apps when tar died with the following message: tar: file name is too long (max 99); not dumped tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors If you happen to see the same error message it is quite likely that you (and by yo…
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These are good news for the Gentoo community. Portage is being used to build Chromium OS packages. As you may know, Portage is the Gentoo Linux default package management system which has its roots on FreeBSD's ports. As of February 5, Google developer Ryan Cairns has made this statement [http://gr…
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Want to get rid of all those unread messages in Gmail? Or, just like me, have some unread messages you can't find and want to reset the unread count to zero? Well, here is the solution: Type "is:unread" in the search bar. Then select "Unread" as seen in the picture below. In the "More actions" d…
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This is a simple way to check a UTF-8 string with PHP function preg_match [http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php] in search for anything that isn't a letter, which includes all UTF-8 letters and not just ASCII. Preg_match performs a regular match on the given input using a pattern. Th…
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If you are using images generated on-the-fly by a PHP script (or another server language), like I'm doing on my web application, you surely do not want images to be read from cache as your users will be seeing the same first generated image (saved into cache) and not the new generated versions. You…
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