I have just received a comment to my post regarding wp-spamfree and decided to do a search for other users of wp-spamfree who had had problems. StevoFC has some negative comments but didn’t really look into the cause of the problems. If he had done a little research to find out why the comments were [...]
To enable centos-dev, you need to create /etc/yum.repos.d/centos-test.repo and add the following [c5-testing] name=CentOS-5 Testing baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing Then when you yum update php You will get the latest version. Please note it breaks ioncube and you will need to download the latest version from http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php Thanks to this comment for showing the way.
I find the new firefox tab method confusing. It opens it to the right of the existing tab not to the far right. To go back to the old method go to about:config, search for browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent and change it to false. I just had to reinstall Windows 7 and had forgotten about this…
I installed 2 updates today, Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 – March 2010 (KB890830) Microsoft Security Essentials Client update package – KB2019198 After installing my mouse failed and then the whole computer locked up. I rebooted thinking that would clear it. about 3 minutes after the reboot the system BSOD’d. I restarted in safe [...]
I have now made the final push to go opensource on all my windows 7 applications. Although I would say the overall project has been a success there are one or two areas of failure. Here is a list of tasks and software I use to complete them. Web Browsing – FireFox Email – ThunderBird [...]
I am looking for an Open Source HTML editor to replace Frontpage which I have been using for years. I quite liked frontpage for it’s 3 tabbed approach to pages. I could draw tables in the design mode, go into the html mode and edit it to remove the frontpage fluff and add php code, [...]
I am starting work on a new website and using Zend Framework (as previously mentioned). One of the most demoralising things when coding is not seeing the finished results of your work for weeks/months.
Secunia offer a free personal edition of their PSI software. This software checks all the software on your computer and checks that you have the latest patched version installed. This saves you going through each program to see if there is an update for it. It is not a virus scanner or security product but [...]
This will be a regular feature (I hope). Quick tips are brief descriptions of a common problem and a solution. The first is how to kill zombie processes. A zombie process is a child process that has died without the parent’s knowledge or acknowledgement. To kill it send a signal SIGCHLD to the parent process. [...]
This is pretty exciting news, Currently plugins run in the same process as FireFox itself which means that the plugin can actually crash the whole browser. Once this work is completed each plugin will have its own process and if it crashes it won’t pull down the whole browser. It also improves speed. I am [...]