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i3 workstation upgrade running Windows 7 So another year gone and our workstations running Windows 7 are somewhat lagging when opening too many apps. The recent release of Windows 8 has led to a review of our developer's equipment and the verdict is that our workstations need upgrading (it always is). So on a budget (i...
Applies to Windows 7. Requires a Vogonian environment of red tape and bureaucracy. This is an article to describe an alternative method then "right-clicking on the desktop", "selecting Personalize", "clicking on Desktop Background", "browsing to the Picture Location". The problem happens when browsing to the picture lo...
So this is an article to note an oddity when I was working with a Yootheme template called "yoo_sync". Some clever scripts (both mootools and jquery) using the equalize method to make div layers the same height, and in this case, the same width. It isn't so much a miscalculation of 100% divided by 3 that leaves 1 pixel...
So this is a quick article on how to delete from multiple tables in a mySQL database where we use some JOIN statements.
So this is a quick article to get your Google Translation services working with your website.
Just a quick note on how to format a given filesize and to reduce the display output to a small string, eg: 196 bytes : displays as => "196 bytes" 12945 bytes : displays as => "12 Kb" 1478515 bytes : displays as => "1 Mb" 8798745455 bytes : displays as => "8 Gb"
Rather silly I know and the solution is one of those obvious ones for those that know how but for those who can't remember, then it can take a while. How?
More for others than for myself, but this article is for those who do not have development/test environments of their Joomla website. I have been doing this for years and still come across clients who have the one version of their website. They experiment on their customer-facing website and in most cases, they are pay...
In view of the fact that this error pops up in so many systems I take over, I have often gone down the wrong path following the red herring as it were when in fact the answer to this is very common.
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