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 plain english explanantions is brilliant.

The URL for these videos is http://au.youtube.com/user/leelefever

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Explanations in plain english – youtube videos

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 wasn’t sure what the issue was.

Upon a bit of research and thinking, I was able to understand what the message was and how to fix it.

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Joomla reorder ‘item is checked out’

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 linux systems)

For Running Shell Programs
# sh filename.sh
or
# chmod 744 filename.sh (you need to change the permission so you, the owner, can execute the script)
#./filename.sh

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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Stop auto network printer install XP

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 far, is what Vista should be right now.

There is some great new features including integration with Facebook. For more info, have a read here.

For a list of where to get it and more detail, read on:

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Windows 7 beta download