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My netbook has crashed
Last updated on July 5th, 2015 at 05:14 pm My main workhorse is a eMachines m250 netbook. Last night it decided to crash. Now it only boots under XP safe mode or Linux from a USB. Most of my apps are on the cloud in some way or other, so I am not actually missing…
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WordPress Bad Behavior Plugin Conflicts
Last updated on July 5th, 2015 at 04:06 pm The Bad Behavior plugin for WordPress is great, it denies spambots even seeing your blog before they try to spam you. But there are four specific issues to be aware of with Bad Behavior 2.0.43. 4 conflicts when using the Bad Behavior plugin 1) On WordPress…
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Hosting Migration Checklist
Last updated on July 4th, 2015 at 07:06 pm I?ve migrated the server this site runs on. Let me know if anything has broken in the move either in a comment or by email to paulz at this domain. Here is a top level checklist for managing such a move. I?ll expand it as the…
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Why are you still using an email client?
Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 02:51 pm Years ago I moved to an email server accessible from my iPhone, laptop, netbook, notepad or desktop computer. Initially this was achieved by using the IMAP protocol which was supported by MS Outlook, Thunderbird, Mail.app and many other email clients on my various machines. I had…
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Update Play Count in iTunes for Windows
Last updated on June 10th, 2019 at 01:22 pm Update 10 Jun 2019: The new Apple Music.app for MacOS is scriptable, but I’ll need to update the script if Apple decides to drop iTunes for Windows in favour of a Music for Windows app. In the meantime the script still works. I lost the playcount…
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How to unlock an iPod screen lock
Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 02:56 pm while keeping all your photos and music! My daughter’s friend has an iPod with a forgotten the screen lock combination. It had a bunch of photos on it that she’d like to keep too. So we searched for a fix and finally came up with this…
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Vista LPR printing
Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 03:12 pm Thanks to the Delphi Geek’s post When Vista Doesn’t Print I finally got Vista to print to my multiport print server a D-Link DP 300U. Earlier versions of Windows worked by just adding a local port. Windows Vista allows you to do it just like always,…
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Vista Home Basic is not good
Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 03:13 pm I’m using a new budget laptop at the moment. It’s a Compaq c700 (actually a c763TU) that will eventually go to my kids, so I thought I’d checkout what Vista Home Basic is like. On a laptop it makes no sense! Laptops move from location to…
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Upgraded to WordPress 2.6
Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 03:12 pm Update:21 July 2008 Don’t upgrade to 2.6! wait until 2.6.1 as there are permalink, login and posting problems. Of course this is the first time in years I haven’t taken complete backups before upgrading 🙁 I thought I should mention that I’ve upgraded this blog to…
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How to pronounce Pfizer
Last updated on March 27th, 2017 at 02:31 pm My wife was watching commercial TV tonight and an ad came on saying Australians should get a cholesterol test. This ad and the website being promoted is sponsored by Pfizer Australia. That was in small print in screen at the bottom. So I’m guessing Pfizer sells…