Joomla reorder ‘item is checked out’

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

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

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

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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DNS-323 Stuck on 94% error

Had to setup a DLINK DNS-323 as a backup unit for a customer a short time ago. This was my first time with the Dlink as I had previously used a Linksys NAS200 but found them to be a bit slow and very little ventilation/air flow for the drives. I had two 1Tb drives which […]

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