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Android Posted by Ian on 30/08/10 What is the difference between Androd and Linux?...
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Dynamic creation of HTML select menu from PHP arrays Posted by Ian on 26/08/08 Sometimes you have a PHP array and you want to use this to create a pulldown select menu in a webpage. Of course you can do it manually - but why not use a simple function to do all the work for you? In addition, we will add the ability for the selections you have made to be 'remembered' whenever you refresh or return to that page...
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Graph plotting on the web Posted by Ian on 26/08/08 Did you even need to plot graphs dynamically in a webpage? Not sure how to draw lines in HTML or Javascript (you can't really), and don't want to learn Java or Flash? Well this is the open source tool for you ...
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Secure Linux the easy way with iptables Posted by Ian on 20/08/08 Worried about network security? Did you know most linux machines are wide open by default after installation? Find out here how you can easily fix that....
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Windows 2000 Command Shell Completion: How to enable Posted by Tom Scott on 09/07/08 Ever miss the auto complete tab function in bash? Here is how you can get it in your Windows 2000 Command Shell...
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XP Vista file sharing tutorial Posted by Tom on 04/04/08 Ever had a simple task made differcult by MicroSoft? Well here is one getting an XP and Vista PC to talk to each other...
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Just upgraded to OS-X Leopard and found your printers stopped working? Posted by Ian on Wednesday 28/11/07 Did you just upgraded to OS-X Leopard and discover all your printer configuration was removed? If you're like me you would try to add it back again, finding that the configuration utility no longer works. What you need to do is......
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What is a winmail.dat file? Posted by Ian on Wednesday 28/11/07 So some kind person/idiot sent you a mail attachment which you receive as winmail.dat and which your computer does not recognise. Here is how to decode it......
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How to remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Posted by Tom on Wednesday 10/10/07 I have come across several people who have installed the XP update that kicks off the "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications".
These annoying prompts never go way. ...
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Need a wiki? Check it out. Posted by Tom on Wednesday 12/09/07 How do you chose from the many, many wikis out there... ...
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PHP DOM and XML: An Overview Posted by Tom on Monday 03/09/07 The DOM extension allows you to operate on XML documents through the DOM API with PHP 5.
It is fully featured and fully object orientated ...
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PHP simpleXML: An overview Posted by Tom on Wednesday 22/08/07 SimpleXML is a simplified set of functions for manipulating XML data.
The basic functionality is demonstrated below. For the full documentation click ...
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How to debug a VSAT system. Posted by Tom on Monday 11/06/07 The other day the Downstream SNR of our VSAT broadband internet system dropped from 9.9 (good) to 4.5 (bad) the Tx indicator on the iDirect 3100 router was flicking on and off intermittently. So what’s the problem? Here is a step by step account of the debugging process...
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Problems living behind NAT/proxy, Email and Remote Access to PC’s. Posted by Tom on Thursday 31/05/07 Originally the ISP allocated a 10.0.0.0 private IP address to our iDirect router. Our traffic is beamed via satellite to the ISP NOC and then it passes through a NAT/proxy and the IP address is translated to one of their public IP addresses.
This creates two problem;
1 Email being tagged as SPAM and
2 no access to PC's via VNC ...
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IP Addresses, NAT/proxy, IP masquerading SPAM and blacklisting. Posted by Ian and Tom on Tuesday 01/05/07 Our ISP providers out here on the edge of the Internet in Pakistan are stingy with their IP addresses. They as many providers do, use a NAT/masquerading proxy to conserve on IP addresses ...
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XAMPP u beauty. Posted by Tom on Monday 30/04/07 I had my share of troubles getting Apache 2, PHP5, MySQL and phpMyAdmin working on my desktop windows box. Downloading the correct installs was a mission in itself...
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SSH, SCP, FTP, SFTP, PuTTy, WinSCP and FileZilla (Linux/XP) tutorial. Posted by Tom on Tuesday 17/04/07 When administering web sites and back end databases it is necessary to transfer files, create back ups of databases and even replicate databases on different PC’s.
This is where SSH, SCP, FTP, SFTP, PuTTy, WinSCP and FileZilla come into their own...
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How to align iDirect VSAT to PakSat1 tutorial. Posted by Tom on Monday 02/04/07 What you will need over and above the VSAT equipment:
C Band receiver.
Free to air TV decoder and TV.
Laptop with iSite installed on it ...
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Basic Network diagnostics, ping. Posted by Tom on Friday 30/03/07 Yesterday afternoon the internet stopped working. Of course in this internet dependant world this was a disaster ...
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RealVNC, Windows, Linux tutorial. Posted by Tom on Tuesday 27/03/07 With our new satellite connection I had to physically shift the Linux (firewall, content filtering) box to the other end of the campus. This is where realVNC comes into its own...
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