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Ubuntu 13.04 – How to Disable / Turn Off Amazon Ads in the Dash

richardsplanet — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:12:26 +0000

This tutorial shows how to disable advertising from Amazon being displayed in the Dash.

The instructions are for Ubuntu 13.04, it should be the same or similar for other versions, but no guarantee is made.

When you interact with Ubuntu through the Dash Panel, search results from Amazon are displayed to you.

1) Launch the Dash by tapping the Windows (Super) key:

Note: tapping the Windows keys means pressing it as though you intend to type it. It does not mean holding down the key (holding down the key does something else).

Ubuntu calls this the Super key

2) Type privacy into the Dash search field:

3) Press the Enter key. This will launch the Privacy management dialog.

Note: pressing the Enter key will select the first Dash entry. If Privacy is not the first entry, then use the keyboard arrow keys or mouse to navigate to the appropriate icon.

If pressing Enter does not launch the privacy management dialog, then click on the Privacy icon.

4) Click on the On / Off slider located to the right of: “Include online search results.” This will toggle the setting to Off

5) Close the dialog. You can close it by clicking on the red X in the upper left corner of the dialog or you can close it by pressing Alt + F4.

Note: pressing Alt + F4 means holding down the Alt key while tapping the F4 key as though you intend to type it.

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Ubuntu 12.10 – How to Disable / Turn Off Amazon Ads in the Dash

richardsplanet — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:00:36 +0000

This tutorial shows how to disable advertising from Amazon being displayed in the Dash.

The instructions are for Ubuntu 12.10, it should be the same or similar for other versions, but no guarantee is made.

One of the changes made in Ubuntu 12.10 is to display advertising from Amazon in the Dash Panel when you enter searches:

1) Launch the Dash by tapping the Windows (Super) key:

Note: tapping the Windows keys means pressing it as though you intend to type it. It does not mean holding down the key (holding down the key does something else).

Ubuntu calls this the Super key

2) Type privacy into the Dash search field:

3) Press the Enter key. This will launch the Privacy management dialog.

NOTE: pressing the Enter key will select the first Dash entry. If Privacy is not the first entry, then use the keyboard arrow keys or mouse to navigate to the appropriate icon.

4) Click on the On / Off slider located to the right of: “Include online search results.” This will toggle the setting to Off

5) Close the dialog. You can close it by clicking on the red X in the upper left corner of the dialog or you can close it by pressing Alt + F4.

Note: pressing Alt + F4 means holding down the Alt key while tapping the F4 key as though you intend to type it.

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Disabling the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)

richardsplanet — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:00:28 +0000

These instructions are for Windows XP with Service Pack 3. The procedure should be the same for other versions of Windows, but no guarantee is made.

Some images may be clicked for full sized versions.

Why would I want to disable the IIS?

If you have installed Apache Server, either as part of a package (like XAMPP or AMPPS) or by itself, having IIS running will interfere with the Apache Server starting up.

This is because only one service can use the Internet ports 80 and 443 at any given time, so if the IIS is using them, then Apache Server cannot.

How to Disable the IIS

1) Click on the Start Menu button and select Run from the menu. (Or use the keyboard shortcut: windows key + R):

2) Enter services.msc into the dialog and click on OK:

3) The Services Window will open. Find the IIS service.

4) Check that the IIS service is disabled. If it is set to Automatic or Manual, then you will need to disable it.

5) To disable the service, Right Click on the service and select Properties from the pop-up menu:

6) Select Disabled from the Startup Type drop down menu. Click on the OK button:

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How to Turn Off 'display_errors' in XAMPP

richardsplanet — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:46:12 +0000

If you are here because:

(1) when you try to run Joomla 1.5.x, 1.6.x, or 1.7.x under XAMPP 1.7.4 or 1.7.7 you get lots of errors like Strict Standards: Accessing static property JCache … or

(2) you are running a popular PHP application and gettings errors when installing or running it out-of-the-box

then see this page instead.

NOT RECOMMENDED: One of the reasons for installing XAMPP is to be able to detect errors in your site and code. Disabling error reporting makes this a lot harder.
These instructions are for XAMPP version 1.7.3, but it should work for other versions as well.

If you are getting errors, the CORRECT thing to do is to FIX those errors, not hide them by turning off ‘display_errors’. Those errors are still there whether the setting is on or off.

Think of it this way, smoke detectors detect smoke from fires. If you have a fire in the house and the smoke detector goes off, pulling out the battery to silence the smoke detector does not fix the problem with the fire.

One of the default settings when XAMPP is installed is to display PHP errors when they occur. This is useful for debugging, but downright dangerous for a production environment.
Usually, you won’t notice this setting – unless you happen to be installing Joomla! under XAMPP, then it will warn you that the Display Errors setting is set to On when the recommended setting is Off. (Click for larger image)
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This isn’t a problem. However, if you want to turn off the warning then do the following:
(1) Go to the php directory under XAMPP. Normally, this would be C:\XAMPP\php, but you may have installed it to a different drive or directory (mine is installed on my D: drive). Locate the file named php.ini . Open this file using a plain text editor – like notepad. Using a word processor (like Word) will very likely seriously corrupt the file. (I use an application called Notepad++). Note: The icon associated with php.ini will depend on what application is associated with .ini files.

(2a) Find the line display_errors = On. In the XAMPP 1.7.3 install, this is line 531.

(2b) Change the On to Off.
(2c) Save the file.
(3) Restart the Apache server. The easiest way is to open the XAMPP control panel and click on the Stop button. Then click on Start to restart it. (You could also reboot the computer, but that is not necessary.)

NOT RECOMMENDED: The reason for installing XAMPP is to allow you to test and develop on your local machine. Getting feedback on any errors is important.

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