So I learned a new acronym the other day, Seems the Linux guys have LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP. It’s an extremely popular acronym and everyone knows exactly what you’re talking about the moment you mention it (well in geek circles anyway). The Windows guys that run PHP & MySQL are WIMP. Well I suppose I […]
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This is a test post from within Windows Live Editor. Windows Live Editor is Microsoft’s new swiss army knife of blog editors. It’s actually really impressive. It supports several different types of blogs including Community Server and WordPress, as well as the popular blogging services. Really won’t go into that because there’s plenty of posts
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One common request is how do I set it up so that my user's can automatically be logged into their smartermail webmail without having to manually enter their login id and password. Well the solution is finally here: The URL to use is: http://mail.yourdomain.com/login.aspx? [email protected]&password=USERPASSWORD where mail.yourdomain.com is the url to mail server [email protected] is
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I enabled the WP-Extremevideo plugin from: http://www.rossgerbasi.com/2006/01/21/extreme-video-plugin-20/ in my wordpress blog so that now I can edit movies directly into a blog entry. This plugin is great as it allows all types of videos including, YouTube, Google Videos, FLV, Quicktime, etc. An example of a youtube video is shown below. [gv data=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=857396983002186497&hl=en”][/gv] [gv data=”cv157ZIInUk”][/gv]
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I USE FIREFOX I have officially migrated my primary web browsing to FireFox. I am one of the old salts on the internet and was using mosiac when it was first released from UIUC, then I started using netscape from "Mosaic Communications Corporation" before they changed their name to netscape. I didn't care for them
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I just realized that my blog has been active for over a year now. Can't believe I'm still blogging, I thought for sure I would have quit by now. Well after much research I've decided to migrate my blog from Community Server (a dot net based blogging application) to WordPress, a php and mysql blogging
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I've been operating a photo gallery online for a long time, in fact I use https://gallery.menalto.com and recently upgraded to Gallery2 which is quite nice. But, with 5GB of images online it's time to clean up my act. Plus, we're a windows shop so I should have something more windows-centric. My gallery being over 5GB
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It's at Jusmon's crazy online outlet mall: http://www.jusmon.com/. Great outlet products at 'outlet online' prices. Outlet online prices, what's that you say? Well, think about it. Online prices are generally less than retail right and outlet prices are generally less than regular prices right? So it would stand to reason that online outlet prices (TM)
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The error message in the entry below is not an actual error, It's simply a post to help explain a potential error.
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The full error is: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL