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Keyboard and mouse shortcuts in Google Chrome
Google

Keyboard and mouse shortcuts in Google Chrome

Keyboard and mouse shortcuts are combinations of keyboard strokes and mouse clicks that you can use to perform specific actions. Knowing some of the Google Chrome shortcuts listed below can help save you time.

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Making a CD copy with only one drive
Windows OS

Making a CD copy with only one drive

This is in the case that you have only one optical drive which is a minimum of a CD Writer and you want to make a copy of a CD. Insert original CD in the drive In the CD Drive dialog box, click CANCEL On the desktop, double-click on MY COMPUTER Right-click on the CD drive and select OPEN Go to EDIT > SELECT ALL > EDIT...

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Migrate MediaWiki to another server
MediaWiki

Migrate MediaWiki to another server

Old Server mysqldump -u root -p wikidb > wikidb.sql tar -cvf wiki.tar wiki ;this is the wiki folder on document root New Server: create database wikidb; this is inside mysql, Note that both mysql versions should be same. grant create, select, insert, update, delete, lock tables on wikidb.* to wiki@localhost identified...

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Using MetaMod to hide buttons from logged in users
Joomla

Using MetaMod to hide buttons from logged in users

Source: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=431&t=401086&p=1693742#p1693742 It's been difficult to find an easy solution to hide menu items from registered users. Finally, I found a solution that works 100% for me using the MetaMod tool without using any template hacks. The instructions on the metamod page are very...

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Can't play music after Firmware Update Version 3.0
IT Support

Can't play music after Firmware Update Version 3.0

Well we're all happy that the iPlayer from the BBC has come to PS3 in Europe but I'm less impressed about the multi-audio output. My setup is that the sound goes from the Playstation to the Sound System via Optical Out. I found that if you do enable the multi-audio output then you can play music again. What a bummer yo...

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Add a template to the dropdown in Kunena
Joomla

Add a template to the dropdown in Kunena

This is what I had to do to be able to add another template to the dropdown in the Kunena configuration panel: Download your site from your server to a copy on your local disk (hard disk, flash drive, etc) Make sure that the \components\com_kunena\template folder is on your local disk Make a copy of the default folder...

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Ubuntu as a media server
Linux

Ubuntu as a media server

1. If someone wants to use Ubuntu as a home media pc connected to a tv, there is the problem of overscan; consumer tv's crop off the border around the image. How does Ubuntu intend to officially solve this? Right now LinuxMCE has it's own method for doing this so the LMCE UI is never cropped off, but when the user swit...

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Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a file
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Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a file

The Issue Basically you have a HTML form with an input field type of 'FILE' (ie. <input type="file" name="file_to_upload" />) and want a PHP file to process this. This example applies to a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) environment. The Solution 1. The first thing to do is check that your HTML form is setup to do this:

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