Srini's Point of View

My thoughts on technology, food and other fancies…

xampp problem due to missing lang.tmp

I was trying to open the xampp home page today on my dev box and I got the following error -

Warning:
file_get_contents(lang.tmp)
[[function.file-get-contents](http://localhost/xampp/function.file-get-contents)]:
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
C:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\index …

comment multiple lines in vi

The comment symbol for Unix scripts is typically “#”. You can use the same concept for files for other programming languages. My vi commands below use the “#” symbol.

If you want to comment 5 lines in a file -

  1. Go to the first line you want to comment
  2. Make sure you are …

Disable auto-backup of iPhone/iPod in itunes on windows

If you have a lot of applications in your iphone, you know how long it can take to sync your iphone with itunes. It needs to first backup the iphone and then sync. It is more aggravating when you just want to put sync that one album or podcast for …

Awesome plugin to display code

I was writing a blog post on a myeclipse bug (is this really a bug?) and saw that the code I was trying to display on my blog was not rendering correctly. Part of the code got hidden and the formatting of the entire page looked really bad. I have …