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Fabio Zendhi Nagao

is an applied mathematician from IME - USP - Brazil currently working as CTO at Lojcomm Internet, a company specialized in e-commerce. + info

fields of interest: E-commerce, Collective Intelligence, Interoperability, Web 2.0, Web Design, Mathematical Programming, Pattern Recognition.

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Nov 11th

HOWTO: Mount Windows Share in Linux

Filed Under: Ubuntu

  1. Install samba and smbfs
  2. Make folder /mnt/share
  3. Make file /etc/cifspw and fill it with username= and password=
  4. $ sudo chmod 600 /etc/cifspw
  5. Edit /etc/fstab: //ip/share /mnt/share cifs exec,credentials=/etc/cifspw 0 0
  6. $ sudo mount -a

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May 10th

HOWTO: Restore GRUB after installing windows

Filed Under: Ubuntu, Windows

Yesterday my notebook (which came with Windows 7) simply went to a boot loop unless I change to OS to Linux o_O. Since reinstalling Windows 7 messes the whole MBR, a GRUB restore is required to get the multiboot back to work. These are the steps to get it working again:

  1. Boot with a LiveCD and in places, click the original grub partition get it mounted.
  2. Open the terminal.
  3. Verify if it's the right partition $ mount | tail -1. Something like /dev/sda5 on /media/0d104aff-ec8c-44c8-b811-92b993823444 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit) will be returned.
  4. To make sure this is indeed the Ubuntu boot partition, run $ ls /media/0d104aff-ec8c-44c8-b811-92b993823444/boot
  5. To restore the grub type $ sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/0d104aff-ec8c-44c8-b811-92b993823444 /dev/sda --recheck
  6. Reboot and enjoy!

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Mar 31st

HOWTO: Remove a parsers from ctags

Filed Under: GEdit, Optimization

Sometimes it's useful to remove a language parser from the ctags binary. Specially if you are extending it via ctags.conf file. You will need to remove the language bindings at parsers.h (one line here) and source.mak (two lines here), then just recompile the code to get the parsers away.

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Mar 25nd

HOWTO: Recover IUSR and IWAN

Filed Under: Server, Windows

Today I faced a very interesting problem: How to set back a site, in Windows 2003, to anonymous access once its password has been accidentally changed in the Directory Security?

Besides the very intriguing fact of "How could someone do that?!", it's equally fascinating that just clicking "Enable anonymous access" and leaving the password field empty won't bring your site back. Neither using "guest" nor "anonymous".

What's going on here is that some Windows account passwords are set automatically and are never known. Once you have them out of sync you have a "Oh, man!" kind of big problem since your customer is calling all the time asking: "Why my password is asking for user and password?! WHY WHY WHY?!".

Fixing this is easy but a little tricky. Here are the steps:

1 -- Open C:InetpubAdminScriptsadsutil.vbs and search for the function IsSecureProperty. It should be something like:

Function IsSecureProperty(ObjectParameter,MachineName)
    On Error Resume Next
    Dim PropObj,Attribute
    Set PropObj = GetObject("IIS://" & MachineName & "/schema/" & ObjectParameter)
    If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
        ReportError ()
        WScript.Echo "Error trying to get the property: " & err.number
        WScript.Quit (Err.Number)
    End If
    Attribute = PropObj.Secure
    If (Attribute = True) Then
        IsSecureProperty = True
    Else
        IsSecureProperty = False
    End If
End Function

2 -- Edit it TEMPORARILY to always return false:

Function IsSecureProperty(ObjectParameter,MachineName)
    ' On Error Resume Next
    ' Dim PropObj,Attribute
    ' Set PropObj = GetObject("IIS://" & MachineName & "/schema/" & ObjectParameter)
    ' If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
        ' ReportError ()
        ' WScript.Echo "Error trying to get the property: " & err.number
        ' WScript.Quit (Err.Number)
    ' End If
    ' Attribute = PropObj.Secure
    ' If (Attribute = True) Then
        ' IsSecureProperty = True
    ' Else
        ' IsSecureProperty = False
    ' End If
    IsSecureProperty = False
End Function

3 -- Now your are ready to retrieve the built-in anonymous password by using the following command:

cscript adsutil.vbs get w3svc/anonymoususerpass

4 -- or the IWAN password by using:

cscript adsutil.vbs get w3svc/wamuserpass

5 -- Remove the adsutil.vbs modifications and set the password in the Directory Security.

Note: If instead of using get to retrieve the built-in password, you think it's better to set a new password, you may use the set command and after that you should run cscript synciwam.vbs -v to sync up the new password in all the services.

That's it! And... yeah, the blog is not dead xD

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Jan 31st

Installing gedit with autocomplete 0.11.0 in windows 7

Filed Under: Application, GEdit, Python, Windows

Many developers that use the GNOME desktop environment already know how powerful, yet lightweight, it's official text editor gedit is. Unlike Windows notepad, GNOME gedit comes with a lot of little customizable options and a very flexible plugins system which really makes the programmers day by day a lot better.

But what most of the users don't know is that both Mac and Windows can run gedit using the packages made by it's own core developers. This means that no matter what OS you are running, you have in gedit a good choice of text editor to work with.

What is gedit

According to the project page:

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor. Currently it features:

gedit features also a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features to gedit itself.

The following table lists the plugins distributed with the gedit package:

But the windows package also includes the official gedit-plugins:

Ok, that said, I'm going to write this small guide below:

How to install gedit with autocomplete for Windows 7

  1. Download: gedit for windows, ActiveState Python x86 and gedit-plugin-autocomplete
  2. Install both gedit and ActiveState Python.
  3. Because autocomplete plugin requires a json interpreter and the python which comes with gedit doesn't features the json package, we need to copy the json package from the activestate install to the gedit install. In a command prompt, type:
    Copy C:\Python27\Lib\json "C:\Program Files (x86)\gedit\bin\Lib\".
  4. Extract the gedit-plugin-autocomplete
  5. Move autocomplete folder and autocomplete.gedit-plugin file to C:\Program Files (x86)\gedit\lib\gedit-2\plugins\
  6. Open gedit, go Edit > Preferences and click Plugins tab.
  7. Check everything XD
  8. Plugins should be alright, but you can also modify additional stuff in the other tabs (View, Editor and Font & Colors)

Testing

To check if the autocomplete is running, create a new document, set the language to ASP and type:

<%
 
dim Parser : set Parser = new Markdown
Response.write( Parser. )

Now, set the prompt at the end of the word Parser., erase the dot and type it again. A pop-up with the following contents should appear:

gedit-autocomplete-0.11.0-windows

That's it, enjoy!

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Tumblelog (?)

6 Aug 09

Implemented "addThis" socialize icon to the bottom of page entries.

18 Jan 09

Finally updated my categories list and assigned the entries to it.

21 Oct 08

Standards section has been updated with a more complete coding standards specification.

25 Jan 08

Created a section named “Goodies” where I’m going to share my open source works.

20 Jan 08

Created a section named “Standards” where I’ll be putting useful things like color palettes and tips like: naming conventions, code snippets, etc.

10 Jan 08

Changed Symphony built-in RSS delivery to FeedBurner PRO.

I’ve added an “Out of date widgets” section at sidebar to help people find my old toys while I’ve not developed the new ones.

9 Jan 08

Zendlab is finally running. Yesterday evening I've acquired a very charming host plan at Daily Razor and here it is – a brand new version of nagaozen site! Thanks for the the Symphony team for this great CMS which I'm basing on.

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