a-fung.net http://www.a-fung.net Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:36:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 How to fix categories and tags links in WordPress 3.2.1 sub-directory multi-site http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/09/02/how-to-fix-categories-and-tags-links-in-wordpress-3-2-1-sub-directory-multi-site/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-fix-categories-and-tags-links-in-wordpress-3-2-1-sub-directory-multi-site http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/09/02/how-to-fix-categories-and-tags-links-in-wordpress-3-2-1-sub-directory-multi-site/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:30:40 +0000 a-fung http://a-fung.net/?p=143 I set up WordPress 3.2.1 sub-directory multi-site a few days ago.
I found out that all categories and tags links are not working in sites under sub-directory.

I spent a lot of time searching on the Internet but couldn’t find any useful information.
I also tried re-installing WordPress couples of times and didn’t resolve the problem.

Finally I found a simple way to fix it.
In all your site under subdirectory, go to Dashbard => Settings => Permalinks

Enter custom values in Category base and Tag base like the above image.
Click Save Changes and you are done!

]]> http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/09/02/how-to-fix-categories-and-tags-links-in-wordpress-3-2-1-sub-directory-multi-site/feed/ 3 How to configure triple boot Chrome OS, Windows 7 and Mac OS X on MacBook Air http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/09/02/how-to-configure-triple-boot-chrome-os-windows-7-and-mac-os-x-on-macbook-air/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-configure-triple-boot-chrome-os-windows-7-and-mac-os-x-on-macbook-air http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/09/02/how-to-configure-triple-boot-chrome-os-windows-7-and-mac-os-x-on-macbook-air/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:00:40 +0000 a-fung http://a-fung.net/?p=100 Recently I made my MacBook Air (late 2010) to triple boot 3 OSes.

The following is the instruction on how to make it happen.

 

Things you need:

  • MacBook Air (of course!)
  • Two USB external hard drives
  • A 4GB USB disk + another 1GB USB disk
  • Mac OS X reinstall USB disk
  • Windows 7 install disk or ISO
  • VMWare fusion (trial version is OK too, other Mac VM software might work too)

 

Step 0 – Backup
  • Very important! Back up your computer first! You will need to wipe your local drive in your MacBook Air!
  • Download boot camp help program and store that in a USB disk (small one will work)

 

Step 1 – Install Chrome OS on local drive
  • Follow the instruction here to install Chrome OS on your MacBook Air

 

Step 2 – Install Mac OS X on external hard drive
  • plug in your Mac OS X reinstall USB disk and a USB external hard drive to your MacBook Air
  • Restart your MacBook Air and hold the option key when it starts
  • Choose to boot the Mac OSX reinstall USB disk
  • Use Disk Utility to re-partition your USB external hard drive and use GUID partition map
  • Select the USB external drive to install Mac OS X
  • Wait for the installation to finish

 

Step 3 – Modify the partitions on local drive to use bootloader in NTFS partition
  • Start your MacBook Air and hold the option key
  • Boot into Mac OS X on USB external hard drive
  • Install VMWare fusion (or VM software of your choice)
  • Download GParted Live CD here
  • Create a Linux VM
  • Create a virtual disk file to access the local drive (Reference: Using raw disks/partitions from VMWare Fusion)
    The command you need is:

    sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disk0 fullDevice /MyRawDisk0 lsilogic
    sudo chown yourunixusername /MyRawDisk0*

    Be sure to replace yourunixusername.
    If you are not using VMWare fusion, you will need to find your own way to access the local disk inside your VM

  • Attach the virtual disk file and the GParted Live CD ISO to the Linux VM
  • Boot the Linux VM to GParted Live
  • There should be 3 partition in your local drive.
    Move the third partition to make some free space (like 30GB before the partition)
    Delete the second partition and re-create the partition to use up the free space between the first and the third partition and use HFS+ format for this partition.
    Create a forth partition to use up the remaining free space. Use NTFS format for this partition.
  • Apply the change
  • Now your local drive should have 4 primary partitions
    1 – Chrome OS partition
    2 – HFS+ partition (will store Mac OS X)
    3 – Chrome OS partition
    4 – NTFS partition (will store bootloader and Windows)
  • Shutdown the Linux VM.
  • Now create a Windows VM and install Windows 7 on it.
  • Attach the virtual disk file (to access the raw disk) to the Windows VM while it is turned off.
  • Download and install EasyBCD inside the Windows VM
  • Start EasyBCD and go to BCD Deployment to install Windows Boot Manager to the NTFS partition of the local drive
  • Load the newly deployed BCD store
  • Go to “Add New Entry” then “NeoGrub”. Click Install.
  • Click Configure and add the following entry to menu.lst

    default 0
    timeout 0
    hiddenmenu

    title Chrome OS
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz quiet console=tty2 init=/sbin/init boot=local rootwait ro noresume noswap loglevel=1 noinitrd root=/dev/sda3 nomodeset cros_debug reboot=pci acpi_backlight=vendor

  • Save the file, Shutdown the Windows VM and shutdown Mac OS X
  • Detach any USB device
  • Start your MacBook Air and hold the option key
  • Select local drive to boot, and you should be able to boot into Chrome OS using the new boot loader

 

Step 4 – Install Windows 7 on local drive
  • Attach the USB external hard drive to your MacBook Air
  • Start your MacBook Air and hold the option key
  • Boot into Mac OS X on USB external hard drive
  • Start the Windows VM
  • Attach your Windows installation disk / ISO to the Windows VM
  • Copy sources/boot.wim to the NTFS partition of the local drive
  • Start EasyBCD and open the BCD store of the local drive
  • Go to “Add New Entry” and then “WinPE” tab
  • Add a new entry
    Type: WIM Image (Ramdisk)
    Name: Windows Setup
    Path: select the boot.wim
    EMS Enabled: Yes
  • Shutdown the Windows VM
  • If you are using Windows Installation ISO, copy all the content inside to a USB thumb drive
  • Shutdown Mac OS X
  • Detach all USB devices
  • Start your MacBook Air and hold the option key
  • Select local hard drive
  • The bootloader should have 2 entries Chrome OS and Windows Setup
  • Select Windows Setup
  • Before you begin install, attach your Windows installation disk or USB thumb drive
  • If it prompts you for any file during the installation, find that file in your disk or USB
  • Let the installation finish and install boot camp helper program

 

Step 5 – Install Mac OS X on local drive
  • If you want a clean Mac OS, repeat step 2 with another external hard drive
  • Attach your Mac OS X install USB and the external hard drive to your MacBook Air
  • Starts your MacBook Air and hold the option key
  • Choose Mac OS X install USB disk
  • Open Disk Utility
  • Go to the restore tab and select the Mac OS X partition from external hard drive as source and the HFS+ partition on local drive as destination
  • Click restore
  • If the above step did not work (it works if it is Snow Leopard but not for Lion), you can boot to Windows and use other disk copy program (e.g. Ghost) to copy the Mac OS X partition on external hard drive to the local drive
  • Shutdown your MacBook Air and detach all USB drives

 

Step 6 – Try booting all 3 OSes
  • Starts your MacBook Air and hold the option key
  • You will be able to see two option – Macintosh HD and Windows
    • If you select Macintosh HD, Mac OS X will boot
    • If you select Windows, the Windows bootloader will start and you can select Windows / Chrome OS

 

Step 7 – Select Default OS
  • Select Mac OS X to boot by default
    • Boot into Windows
    • Start Boot Camp control panel
    • Select Macintosh HD and click restart
  • Select Windows 7 to boot by default
    • Boot into Windows
    • Start EasyBCD (you may need to download and install it again)
    • Go to “Edit Boot Menu” and select Windows 7 as default
    • Click “Save settings” and close Easy BCD
    • Start Boot Camp control panel
    • Select the Windows partition and click restart
  • Select Chrome OS to boot by default
    • Boot into Windows
    • Start EasyBCD (you may need to download and install it again)
    • Go to “Edit Boot Menu” and select Chrome OS as default
    • Click “Save settings” and close Easy BCD
    • Start Boot Camp control panel
    • Select the Windows partition and click restart

 

If you have any problem or question, please leave a comment for me. Thanks.
]]> http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/09/02/how-to-configure-triple-boot-chrome-os-windows-7-and-mac-os-x-on-macbook-air/feed/ 2 Fully migrated to WordPress http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/09/01/fully-migrated-to-wordpress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fully-migrated-to-wordpress http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/09/01/fully-migrated-to-wordpress/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:30:20 +0000 a-fung http://a-fung.net/?p=98 Just spent a day setting up WordPress and importing posts.

After importing I need to fix the links and image sources.

And the multisite had some problem, I used Google search and found no solution and I need a setting that is not mentioned anywhere.

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Why do I need this crazy multi-boot?

Most of the time I use this MacBook Air to browse websites only. So I want a fast-booting OS for this – Chrome OS.
Sometimes I play Windows game with my friends and I need to run iTunes to sync Apps and Music to my iPhone and iPad (iTunes sucks on Windows).

So I decided to make this triple boot on my machine.

I will post some instruction later. :-)

]]> http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/09/01/triple-boot-chrome-os-windows-7-mac-os-x-on-macbook-air/feed/ 1 Tutorial: How to use your US credit card to do in-app purchase in Japanese-iTunes-store-only app http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/08/11/tutorial%3ahowtouseyouruscreditcardtodoin-apppurchaseinjapanese-itunes-store-onlyapp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tutorial%253ahowtouseyouruscreditcardtodoin-apppurchaseinjapanese-itunes-store-onlyapp http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/08/11/tutorial%3ahowtouseyouruscreditcardtodoin-apppurchaseinjapanese-itunes-store-onlyapp/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:00:00 +0000 a-fung http://a-fung.net/blog/2011/08/11/tutorial%3ahowtouseyouruscreditcardtodoin-apppurchaseinjapanese-itunes-store-onlyapp/ Some Japanese apps like Taiko no Tatsujin Plus and jubeat plus are free to download once you create a Japanese iTunes account. However there are only a few songs bundled in the free apps. You need to purchase more songs inside the app.

The problem is you do not have any credit card of which the billing address is in Japan, it is too troublesome to get Japan iTunes store gift card and you cannot use another US iTunes account to do in-app purchase in app you downloaded with the Japan iTunes account.

 

I just found a way to work around these. The following is all you need:

  1. An email address which is not associated with any iTunes store account
  2. A valid credit card.

 

Here are the steps:

  • Open iTunes on your computer
  • Go to iTunes store
  • Sign out from your current iTunes account if you have signed in
  • Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the flag to change the country of the iTunes store
  • Find “日本” (Japan, it’s at the end of the page) and click it, it will bring you to the Japanese iTunes store
  • Go to App Store, find any free app and try to download that. It will ask you to sign in or create a new account.
  • Click “create new account”. Create the account as usual (email, password, security question and date of birth). Next you’ll need to enter payment information. You can select “none” because you got here by trying to download a free app. In billing address, you need to enter an address in Japan. It is easy to find one on the internet.
  • After that you need to go to your mailbox to verify your email address.
  • Once your email is verified, you can go back to iTunes.  Select “Store” and then “Authorize This Computer” with your newly created iTunes account. Download jubeat plus or Taiko no Tatsujin Plus and sync the App to your iOS device.
  • And then change your account region by Selecting “Store” => “View My Account” and then select “Change Country or Region”. Select your current country or region. You will need to enter your payment information.
  • Go to your iOS device and go to settings => store. Login with your new account.
  • Go to the store of jubeat plus or Taiko no Tatsujin Plus. Try purchasing download content. It will tell you to verify your payment information. After that you will be able to do the in-app purchase.

 

Downside of this workaround is that you will not be able to change back the region to Japan to download any other apps only available in Japan because it will require payment information to do so.
 

]]> http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2011/08/11/tutorial%3ahowtouseyouruscreditcardtodoin-apppurchaseinjapanese-itunes-store-onlyapp/feed/ 0 DIY: DJ Dao Real Edition Single Custom Empress Style http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2010/11/20/diydjdaorealeditionsinglecustomempressstyle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=diydjdaorealeditionsinglecustomempressstyle http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2010/11/20/diydjdaorealeditionsinglecustomempressstyle/#comments Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:00:00 +0000 a-fung http://a-fung.net/blog/2010/11/20/diy%3adjdaorealeditionsinglecustomempressstyle/ I made some templates for making custom plates for dj dao’s real edition single IIDX controller.



You can download the jpg template from my photo gallery (sorry removed) and photoshop template from here.

 

For my own controller, I made some design based on the template and print them out on photo paper.

Then replace the plate with my printed photo paper.

You can see the final product in this blog post.

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]]> http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2010/05/18/%e6%8b%94%e6%8e%89%e4%ba%86%e6%99%ba%e6%85%a7%e9%bd%92%e7%9a%84%e6%84%9f%e6%83%b3/feed/ 0 又敗家了 http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2010/05/08/%e5%8f%88%e6%95%97%e5%ae%b6%e4%ba%86/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=%25e5%258f%2588%25e6%2595%2597%25e5%25ae%25b6%25e4%25ba%2586 http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2010/05/08/%e5%8f%88%e6%95%97%e5%ae%b6%e4%ba%86/#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 07:00:00 +0000 a-fung http://a-fung.net/blog/2010/05/08/%e5%8f%88%e6%95%97%e5%ae%b6%e4%ba%86/

MINI手錶一隻

]]> http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2010/05/08/%e5%8f%88%e6%95%97%e5%ae%b6%e4%ba%86/feed/ 0 My Gaming Blog: BlazBlue CT: Arcade mode using Noel http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2010/04/30/mygamingblogblazbluectarcademodeusingnoel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mygamingblogblazbluectarcademodeusingnoel http://www.a-fung.net/blog/2010/04/30/mygamingblogblazbluectarcademodeusingnoel/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:00:00 +0000 a-fung http://a-fung.net/blog/2010/04/30/mygamingblog%3ablazbluect%3aarcademodeusingnoel/

練梗用街機制黎用Noel, 嚮PSP度打得爆機的 :-)

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This was a good game. I tried very hard to win. :)

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