In case you are not aware this bad news. FreeBSD.org was compromised on September 17, 2012. Good news is that the compromise was caused by a human error (a stupid developer leaked a SSH private key somewhere), which has nothing to do with the code quality of the FreeBSD. Bad news is that this may affect you if you use port. The compromise is believed to have occurred due to the leak of an SSH key from a developer who legitimately had...

Yesterday, I was processing some of the pictures in Adobe Lightroom. I liked to export few of them to Photomatix for HDR processing. Then, the system complained with this error message: Lightroom rendition failed After searching this error message on Google, I found that this message was generated by the Photomatix plug-in. According to Photomatix’s FAQ, it seems that the original picture is missing. So, I ran a quick test (Find...

Every time Firefox releases a major upgrade, we love it because it comes with lots of cool features. At the mean time, we hate it because lots of our favorite add-ons are not working with the new Firefox. Sometimes, the owners of the add-ons might be too busy, and it might take a while to release a compatible version. That’s why I put some of my favorite add-ons here. They are 100% compatible with the new Firefox, and I only modified...

Everyday, many people from US and other countries find their solutions here to solve their computer problem through the search engine. If the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) are passed, it simply allows US government to censor the web. Someday, IceSquare may be blocked from the major search engines. In the other words, you won’t be able to find any solutions of your computer problem...

Every time when I open a real media movie using VLC (VideoLAN) player, and when I try to fast forward or drag the time to a certain position, it crashes. It is very annoying because VLC is one of very few movie players that support real media format, especially on non-Windows platform, such as OS X and Ubuntu Linux. Initially, I thought VLC is going to fix this bug very soon. After doing some researches, I found that this bug was...

Few days ago, I found that the CPU fan of this server (i.e., icesquare.com) was having some troubles. It was spinning slowly and making some weird noise. After opening the computer case and had a brief investigation, I found that the fan needed to be replaced. Unlike the computer case fan, CPU fan works with CPU socket. Given that there are so many different sockets available, it is not likely that the local stores have each in stock. In...

After letting Windows 7 to automatically upgrade my system, I found that the taskbar was no longer transparent. So I ran the trouble shooting features to find out why the transparency feature was gone. Desktop -> Right Click -> Personalize -> Window Color The transparency feature is not available. So I clicked on the trouble shooting link, and Windows complains about the incompatibility of the graphic card. This computer problem is pretty...

When I tried to turn off my HP2009m monitor by pushing the power button, I see the following message: Power Button Lockout Since HP has a tradition to make beautiful and quality monitor with the worst power button (Which means you have to keep it power on, or you need to get a new one even the monitor is doing okay), I was worrying about whether my monitor is “dead” or not. After unplugging the power cable for a night and...

Today, I found a list of files ending with .1, .2, .3 etc. Initially, I thought I could simply join them together, i.e., Using hjSplit on Windows, or cat on Unix: cat file.1 file.2 file.3 > file Unfortunately, it doesn’t work out. After searching on google, I found that a Spanish software called Hacha can solve this problem. You can download Hacha from here. If you found this solution useful, would you like to visit the...

iLeopard Mail has been my favorite Thunderbird theme for a long time. Recently, I upgraded to Thunderbird 3.1 and I found that this theme is no longer available. Since I cannot find any theme that is similar to iLeopard Mail, I decide to upgrade the theme and make it compatible with Thunderbird 3.1. Here is the instructions on how to make iLeopard Mail compatible with Thunderbird 3.1: 1. Click here to download iLeopard Mail for Thunderbird...