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May/11

Install Magento Localization Setting Problem

Filed Under Software, Website at 11th May 2011 0:01 by

I was playing with Magento and during the web install on the Localization settings page it would stay on US. I selected UK from the dropdown list but the page would refresh and go back to US. I was using … Continue reading →

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Mar/11

Create And Enable SSL On Ubuntu LAMP Server

Filed Under Linux, Web Server, Website, WordPress at 22nd March 2011 0:01 by

Introduction SSL is used to encrypt data between the client e.g a user viewing a website to the web server which hosts the site. SSL uses certificates which are signed and verify the validity of a website. Like any vendor … Continue reading →

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Feb/11

Cyanogenmod On HTC Desire Issues

Filed Under Hardware, Mobile Phone, Software at 21st February 2011 21:28 by

I had decided to try out Cyanogenmod but in order to do so I had to root my HTC Desire. Looking at the steps on the Internet it all seems fairly simple using the Unrevoked method. Sods law was that … Continue reading →

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Jan/11

Siemens Gigaset 685IP Mini Review

Filed Under Hardware, Linux, PBX at 12th January 2011 16:47 by

Overview The two cordless phones that we have were fine till we moved into a house. The two phones suddenly became too far from room to room. It was time again to look for a phone which was scalable and … Continue reading →

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Jan/11

dvd::rip Debugging (Warning: No libxvidcore API 4 found)

Filed Under Linux, Software at 9th January 2011 21:03 by

I had an issue with dvd::rip failing to transcode videos when using clusters but using the Transcode button worked fine. In the Cluster Control window everything was added fine but when the project started it failed at 0% on all … Continue reading →

02

Jan/11

Mounting / Extracting .bin and .cue Files In Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Software at 2nd January 2011 10:34 by
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Install bchunk which will conert the bin and cue file to an iso sudo apt-get install bchunk Convert the files to iso using the following syntax: bchunk [image.bin] [image.cue] [output name] Where image.bin is the .bin file, image.cue is the … Continue reading →

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Dec/10

Monitor Calibration Software

Filed Under Software at 3rd December 2010 0:15 by

Check out Flat Panel HD‘s website and go to the “Test software” category to get colour patterns to calibrate your monitor. I found the patterns to be OK but you need Flash for the downloadable and interactive versions.

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Nov/10

Compact Folders In Thunderbird To Save Disk Space

Filed Under Software at 2nd November 2010 0:12 by

Overview I have been using Dropbox to sync my mail across multiple computers (I’m old school using POP protocol) which has been working great. Recently I received an email from Dropbox saying I was running out of space on my … Continue reading →