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Disable WordPress Autosave

Oct 20

Posted by mcfang in Internet | No Comments

WordPress’ Autosave feature was getting on my nerves. Often I make several revisions of a page before I save and WordPress was saving intermediate drafts that I didn’t want to keep.

I was surprised to find that there is no option in WordPress core to disable Autosave. Thankfully though it is incredibly easy to disable through editing the source or creating a custom plugin.

The following code (take from the reference link below) will function as a WordPress plugin and will disable autosave (works in WordPress 2.8)

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Disable Autosave
*/
function disable_autosave() {
wp_deregister_script('autosave');
}
add_action( 'wp_print_scripts', 'disable_autosave' );
?>

References

Adjust WordPress Autosave or Disable It Completely

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Firefox save-as for unknown mime-type

Feb 18

Posted by mcfang in Internet | No Comments

If Firefox 2.0 does not recognise a mime-type it forces you to jump through hoops every time you wish to save a file of that type – never giving you the option to make a default action (eg. save-as) for the type.

Getting tired of this I eventually did some research to find a solution, case in point is the RAR file type (application/x-rar; application/x-rar-compressed).

Option 1: An Addon

Add the Mime-Edit extension that allows you edit any mime-type’s properties and actions, even those not recognised by Firefox.

Option 2: Hack

If you are confident in XML manually edit mimeTypes.rdf in your profile folder:

<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:application/x-rar-compressed"
NC:fileExtensions="rar"
NC:description=""
NC:value="application/x-rar-compressed"
NC:editable="true">
<NC:handlerProp RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:handler:application/x-rar-compressed"/>
</RDF:Description>

<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:handler:application/x-rar-compressed"
NC:alwaysAsk="false"
NC:useSystemDefault="false"
NC:saveToDisk="true">
<NC:externalApplication RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/x-rar-compressed"/>
</RDF:Description>

And in the section <RDF:Seq RDF:about=”urn:mimetypes:root”> add in this new row:

<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:application/x-rar-compressed"/>

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SP2 cripples Windows XP

Feb 18

Posted by mcfang in Operating Systems | No Comments

SP2 brought with it a rather annoying tweak to the TCP/IP stack: a 10-connection-per-second limit.

I can’t remember exactly what alerted me to this problem, it may have been when a link-checker application stalled, or could have been the multi-threaded ftp client I was using.

Either way, the effect of “hitting the wall” was damned annoying and I need to find a way around it. Thankfully I found an article that offered a few solutions.

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