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Explanations in plain english – youtube videos

By on Monday, January 26th, 2009 | No Comments

I wanted to find some info on Twitter – how it worked etc in a easy to read format. What I stumbled on was a set of youtube videos that are titled ‘explanations in plain english’. I must say they are quite well presented and very informative. The neat little effect used to deliver these [...]

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Joomla reorder ‘item is checked out’

By on Friday, January 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

One of my sites which is running Joomla came up with a weird message when I went to reorder some menu items. The message said ‘cannot reorder as there is an item checked out’. I must admit that I haven’t used Joomla too much, and not it’s predecessor/competitor mambo for quite some time so I [...]

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Linux run shell script from terminal window

By on Monday, January 12th, 2009 | No Comments

I don’t use shell scripts too often and had a brain dead moment on how to execute a shell script. So, for the dummies , here’s a summary so next time I forget I can quickly look at my posts: For Creating Shell programs # vi filename.sh (vi is one of many text editors for [...]

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Stop auto network printer install XP

By on Friday, January 9th, 2009 | No Comments

There’s nothing worse than installing your network printer software, and then finding that Windows XP has automatically installed the printers as well. How do you stop it? When I first came across the problem I found some registry hacks and other methods. But then I found a mcuh easier way to do it.

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Windows 7 beta download

By on Thursday, January 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft has announced that the beta version of Windows 7 will be released for download on Friday (US time). In fact Microsoft is encouraging everyone to try it, and having seen a pre release version I would jump at the chance if I were you. Windows 7, from what I have seen and tried thus [...]

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