Ok, I keep running into this and trying to work out how to fix it. The setup is WinXP trying to print via a shared printer on Ubuntu server. In XP the printer shows as available but ‘unable to connect,…
Making this my hotlist of stuff that I need to remember when I’ve upgraded too much and killed my server again. This applies to xbmc live 9.10 installed to hard disk. Updated for 10.4 rebuild on non-live. Set up static…
This morning took a look at sorting out a long standing issue on jodiesjewellery.com, where the next/previous controls were all over the shop if you looked at it in IE7. Firefox of course was fine, and it also worked as…
Needed to do this to sort out local testing for another site I’m working on, with the aim of sync’ing the content with the brilliant Dropbox service. This makes it a very simple SVN as Dropbox now has version control,…
Have just taken apart JB’s GHDs and repaired them thanks to the guy at GHD Repair, who I can totally recommend for spare bits. Not only did it save us some cash, but I also get massive brownie points.
There’s a handy site here on setting up SVN in Windows. Quite handy, if that’s what you’re trying to do. Only problem I had was removing blank spaces in the config, which was probably notepad evil.
Not a lot has happened with 2StateReviews (the movie review website I co-developed with James Lloyd) since it’s initial burst of development while I was between jobs, and James was also able to find time to work on it. For…
It’s still being built, but the doors are open – 2StateReviews has been raised to beta release! This makes no actual difference, but we did need to search/replace alpha to beta. As well as starting to look like a website…
Good news! Our new site is up and running. 2StateReviews is a movie review website with the fast track system of “See” or “Don’t See” to tell if a movie is worth watching. Anyone interested please go ahead and take…
For when I need to do this again – script from George A. Papayiannis worked a treat. You can cron it to back up the database and send it to your Gmail.




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