Install Redis on Windows without enabling WSL

The default installation instructions of Redis on Windows 11 asks one to enable WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). But an alternate approach exists if you do not/ cannot install WSL. You can head to https://github.com/microsoftarchive/redis/releases and download the compiled binaries there and install Redis. (NOTE: during installation change the port from default 6379 to 16379. …

Solved: unable to disable screen pinning

I’m using MIUI I occasionally press the screen pinning A simple solution was to not click the Got it button or any other buttons, but press the power button so that the screen locks. On unlocking, the screen pinning option is not presented! Hope this helps reduce your frustration… In case you pin the screen, …

Solved : 404 error while changing Permalink Settings in WordPress on Ubuntu + Apache2

I am using Ubuntu 11.04 and LAMP (Apache2) I did a fresh installation on WordPress and tried changing the Permalink settings from default to Post name option. But when I navigated to the posts, I used to get a 404 – Page not found error Doing this solved the problem. Making sure that the Mod_rewrite is …

Solved : How to fix: PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with ‘#’ are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0

Running Php from command-line-interface i ran something php related in the console i get this strange error: [code] PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with ‘#’ are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 [/code] I googled for some minutes and found why is that happening and how to fix it. The solution …

Ubuntu – how I installed NVIDIA graphics card on Ubuntu 11.04

– GTX – http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_295_us.html Goto “Drivers & Download” section : http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us – download the latest drivers – NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run make it executable – connect the card – reboot – goto terminal – install it sudo ./<filename> sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run – disable the current graphics card ? Nouveau (yes) – then reboot (sudo reboot now) – the old …

TiddlyWiki – useful tips – archiving/compressing the backups

In case you are new to this word TiddlyWiki, in short, it is a Here is an introductory post about TiddlyWiki. And here is a sample of getting organized – a (long but) one-liner to include your Google Calendar in your TiddlyWiki (or in any other HTML page you wish) I find myself using TiddlyWiki …

Abaqus (V 6.10, 6.11) installation on Ubuntu (10.04 and 11.04)

I installing Abaqus (both versions 6.10 and 6.11) on Ubuntu (versions 10.04 and 11.04) This was not a trivial task. Here are the links which helped me do this : Abaqus 6.10 on Ubuntu 10.04 Details on installing Abaqus 6.8 on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid-Lynx) can be found here : http://sites.google.com/site/abaqus2010/help_0 Using the same details, I …