Tips & tricks

On my Xiaomi Redmi 2 bought on TinyDeal, the only available stock languages were Chinese and English. But I wanted to switch to Russian or French language. Sadly, there is no possibility to install a single package for the language you want (at least I didn't find any information about it) But you can find some ROMs including multi-languages support. The only drawback is that the only ROM working I've found does not come with the latest version of MIUI but that's not a big deal. You can download the ROM HERE . Install it using the Updater application (can be found in the settings > About > Update) Screenshots and procedure to install can be found HERE #1

Some users told it's possible to download an application called "Google Installer" from the Xiaomi's Mi Market, but I was unable to find it. Downloading the Play Store APK directly wasn't better. Hopefully I've found the APK of the Google Installer HERE and from this package I was able to install the Play Store and my favourite applications. BACKUP LINK #1

My ghettoVCB backup script was running fine (at least my backups were performed) but that error message ' Datastore not found ' stung my eyes every time I ran the backup manually. In fact, the fix was easy : I had to use the datastore name (a symbolic link) in the path of the backup instead of the GUID of the datastore. So, I changed my configuration file from : [...] VM_BACKUP_VOLUME=/vmfs/volumes/ 53af15fa-cd616a94-e1a4-9ee2ba7c8e2c /backups [...] to : [...] VM_BACKUP_VOLUME=/vmfs/volumes/ DS1_R5_4_8TB /backups [...]  And voilà...

If you've updated your environment variables and want to reflect your changes in an IIS process or app pool, e.g. the php process, use the command iisreset.  Using the GUI to restart the process wont work as expected. #1

If you get an error 404 with the following message: Error Code: ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE More Information: Could not connect to the remote computer. On the remote computer, make sure that Web Deploy is installed and that the required process ("Web Management Service") is started. Learn more at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE. Error: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. Error count: 1. when trying to deploy your application using web deploy but the web deploy component has already been installed using the web platform in IIS , download the full installer HERE, choose the [Change] option and on the root of the tree select the option to install the entire feature:

Type about:config in the address bar. Search for browser.ctrlTab.previews and double-click on the entry to set the value to true . Now you can back to the last active tab using CTRL+TAB . #1

I have no idea if it has been disabled by purpose or if it was simply buggy, but the fact is that, on my LG G2 phone, the " OK Google " keyword wasn't recognized from the Google Now app or even when I was clicking in the search box. The corresponding message didn't appear in the search box neither the microphone icon, even if the option was able and enabled in the parameters of Google Search . mic icon legend from the google help center As this option was working fine on my colleagues' LG G2 phones, I began to dig into the phone and the only difference I had noticed is that the firmware of my phone was a Taiwanese's one when my colleagues' one were European. So I've downloaded a KDZ of the latest European version for the LG G2 16GB here (when I wrote these lines it was D80220D ) and I've followed these instructions to install it on my phone. Now the Google Now keyword is correctly recognized when I'm in the Google Now app or in...