Netscape Navigator 9.0 will promt the user to restore the previous session (pages that were open) if the browser crashed (or was shut down hard/incorrectly).
This can be turned off by going into “about:config” finding the key “browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash” and setting this to false.
Update: This also applies for the SeaMonkey Browser
By default Google Chrome will update to the latest version automatically. It is however possible to disable this and instead update manually (when needed/wanted).
Note: This means you will not get security updates as threats are found and these get fixed – so this might be a bad idea to do if you don’t plan to update manually.
Open up a registry editor and check if the key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update” exists, otherwise create it (the key is the tree structure in regedit).
Now enter a Key name “DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue ” as a DWORD and give it the value “1”.
This will keep Google Chrome from auto updating.
The JAVA_HOME variable should point to the JDK’s bin folder in order for Java applications (jar, war, etc) to know where Java lives.
To setup a JAVA_HOME environment variable on Windows.
Word of caution, Java is not fond of spaces, so I use pathnames without spaces.
Note: You will need to click OK, apply changes AND reload cmd to see the changes there.
With lynx it is not hard to reqest a port other than 80.
Simply add :port after the port and before the “/”.
lynx domain:port lynx http://domain:port/dir |
When you are running for instance a headless host machine it is sometimes needed to turn it off or to restart it from outside the host (for instance as part of a script or if the host is not accessible, no rdp etc).
Word of caution: These operations stops the machine dead in its tracks, any unsaved data is lost!
To turn it off (equivalent of pulling the power cable):
VBoxManage controlvm <vm> poweroff |
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To restart it (equivalent of pushing the reset button):
VBoxManage controlvm <vm> restart |
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For more details, here is what the manual (4.1.2) says:
Use F2 to enter the bios.
Use F12 to select the boot device order.
To cycle through the monitor modes during bootup fn+F1 works.
Also if you have an external keyboard scrollock+F1 might work (that was the default setting in my BIOS).
To set up Opera so that crash-recovery and splash screens are disabled you can do the following:
On Opera, type opera:config in the url bar to edit configuration.
Modify the configuration:
Recovery Strategy = 0
and
Uncheck Show Problem Dialog
When FireFox 2.x came out it was the first version that introduced session restore if the browser crashed (or was shut down hard/incorrectly).
This can be turned off by going into “about:config” finding the key “browser.sessionstore.resume_session” and setting this to false
Also you probably want to check out the startup options under “Tools->Options->When Firefox starts”
(This can also be used to show the session restore window by setting the “browser.sessionstore.resume_session” to true)
Note: This can also be used with Flock versions 2.6.x as that is based on FireFox
To read the raw data being posted to a php page (for instance when $_POST is empty due to problems with encoding types or $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA not being readable due to php.ini settings) reading file_get_contents is a nice solution.
$postData = file_get_contents('php://input'); |
PHPMailer does not seem to auto-detect encodings, so if you wish to send mail in (for instance UTF-8) you need to tell PHPMailer this. Thankully that is very easy
$phpMailerObject->CharSet = 'UTF-8'; |