Washing clothes is one of the hardest work for any women in the planet. Recently i have purchased a LG top loading, fully automatic machine ($375) and i was very surprised, being a first time user i really didnt know how to use a washing machine. I hate to admit it but its the truth.

If you are planning to buy a automatic washing machine… here are the features that is a must have for a good washing machine

1. Wash mode
2. Rinse mode
3. Spinning mode
4. Dryer
5. Top loading or front loading.
6. Option of cold and hot water.

The best washing machine is front loading type but it the most expensive ($500) and the disadvantage is you have to lean down everytime to load or pull out your clothes. The cost effective and budget type would be top loading machine.

How to setup a washing machine

1. Connect the machine to power socket.
2. Connect both hot and cold inlets to water pipes.
3. Make sure you place the waste water outlet in appropriate place.
4. Add a good washing powder.
5. Power on the machine
6. Set the water level manually (if it doesnt start)

The advantage of using hot water to kill germs. In my LG washing machine it takes about 40 minutes

Washing Mode

In this mode most washing machines simply swirl or rotate the clothes after soaking in the water mixed with washing powder. It does few rotations and does some inner swirl to remove the dirt or stains in clothes.

Rinsing Mode

In this mode the machine first releases the waste water completely and then fills in fresh water to re-clean the foam and washing powder in the clothes. This is called rinsing. It also cleans any bleaches.

NOTE: In most machines the spinning would work only if you have connected the hot or cold water inlet.

Spinning

Once the rinsing is done, the machine rotates the clothes and this process completely eliminates about 80% of the water in the clothes. If you live in a sunny place (with good sunshine) remove the clothes and dry it manually under sun, else if you live in a cold country, you might need dryer.

Dryer

Once spinning is complete, the machine dries your clothes by letting in hot air and does increased spinning to dry your clothes. Note that power consumption would be more in this mode and if you want to cut your power bills stop with spinning.

Here i am sharing what i have learnt from being a noob in washing. I really liked my machine and it infact removed dirt and stains very well. Infact my clothes smelled good.

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded

Fix:

If you get this error you will need edit config.default.php inside phpmyadmin and look for this line

$cfg[’ExecTimeLimit’] = 300;

and replace with 0 or any larger value

$cfg[’ExecTimeLimit’] = 3600;

If that doesnt work, try this BigDump MySQL Importer. It is free for download.

If you have commandline SSH access, and your SQL file is in gzip format use this superfast command to import large gzipped mysql databases

gunzip < dbname.gz | mysql -u Username -p dbname

Always consider GZIP to export and dump large mysql databases as it has better compression than ZIP formats.

Warning: ereg_replace(): REG_BADRPT

Here is a simple function that causes this error

function OrigURL($str)
{
$out = ereg_replace('+',' ',$str);
return $out;
}

Solution: Just escape the characters. Only then it will work.

$out = ereg_replace(’\+’,’ ‘,$str);

Hope this would help!

search.php?q=what+europe+scripts&page=1

I used $_SERVER[’QUERY_STRING’] to get the GET parameters. But the problem i got was when i was in page 2 it would show query string like

search.php?q=what+europe+scripts&page=1&page=2

and if i am in page 5, it would show like

search.php?q=what+europe+scripts&page=1&page=2&page=3&page=4&page=5

This is an unwanted problem and i wanted to strip/remove only the page variable.

If you are in such a situation here is the solution.

1. Use ereg_replace to strip unwanted variable. (or)

list($q) = explode('&',$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);

Here the GET variables separated using & and we take only the first value in the array (say q variable).

2. Use SESSIONS to hold just the query variable.

Just store the GET variable by registering a session and use it on pages.

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if i have category structure like

Drupal
- 2 Column
- 3 Column
- Left sidebar
- Right sidebar

Wordpress
- Fixed Width
- Widget Ready
- News/Magazine
- Photogallery

and if i do a wordpress post (with title say CSS Gallery) inside Wordpress -> Photogallery i want the title to display

Blog Title > Parent Category Name > Blogpost Title
like
Top Best Themes > Wordpress > CSS Gallery

Here is the wordpress code to display parent category name. Its a very simple code but did the job for me. You can insert inside header.php if you want to change titles in wordpress. This is how it works. First it gets the category name of wordpress post, and from it gets the Category ID of its parent then it gets the parent name with get_cat_name() function. If the parent is empty (which means the wordpress post is already listed in the parent category) then print the current category name.

<?php
$category = get_the_category();
$parent = get_cat_name($category[0]->category_parent);
if (!empty($parent)) {
echo '&raquo; ' . $parent;
} else {
echo '&raquo; ' . $category[0]->cat_name;
}
?>

Note that this code has a limitation and it works best with only one level deep.!

For example you have category structure like

Wordpress Theme
- 2 Column
- 3 column
- Left sidebar
- Right sidebar

Drupal
- 2 column
- 3 column
…
…

You wont be able to identical subcategories even it belongs to different parent category. I tried overcome this problem with different category slugs but it never worked for me.

Although NAS is not fully fault tolerant, its a very primitive form of backup and the one disadvantage is should the hosting providers network go down you wont be able to move your backup to another host. You have to wait until your host network is up and running. I would suggest evault which is one of the cheap and reliable fault tolerant backup distributed over different locations and servers. If you have a dedicated server then NAS should cost about $5/mon and $10/mon for evault.

Here i will demonstrate how to store and retrieve files with Network Attached Storage (NAS) from commandline.

Step: 1
Get NAS ip address with user name and password from your hosting provider.

Step 2: If you have any firewalls(APF or CSF firewall) running, you have to unblock the following TCP/UDP ports 137,138,139,445

Step 3:
Connect through FTP and store files. You just need to know the basic knowledge of ftp commands from linux commandline.

ftp <11.22.33.44>
Username:
Password:

Then,

(i) switch off prompt

ftp> prompt
Prompt off

(ii) Switch to binary mode

ftp> binary
BINARY mode ON

(iii) Store backup files using put

Then transfer files to remote NAS with put

put source-file [remote-destination]
put /mybackup.tar.gz /backups

(iv) Retrieve backup files using get
Similarly to retrieve backup file from remote use get

get source-file [destination]

Note: [remote-destination] is optional

(iv) To FTP transfer (store/retrieve) Multiple files at once use mput or mget with asterisks.


mput backup* /backups
mget backup* /backups

(vi) To list remotely stored files in FTP use nlist

nlist /backups

Good luck!

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../../bins/zziptest.c: In function ‘main’:
../../bins/zziptest.c:76: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
make[3]: *** [zziptest.o] Error 1

To fix:

install the latest version of zziplib.0.13.49. It nicely fixed the above problem. It will be under zziplib-preview file name.

Note that zziplib requires zip and its header files, so before you compile and make it install zip package. yum install zip zip-devel