Looking for an easy way to add those search sites to your FireFox search box? I was looking for the .UK version of Google. A simple enough request, but something…
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Ever wonder if it would be more efficient to save compressed versions of your strings for storage in databases etc? I wanted to check several variations on this recently, so…
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What does a highly stressed IT chap do to get away from it all for an hour or so a week? For now, I'm giving growing grapes a try. Having…
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Evernote is a great piece of software when it works, which is most of the time. It does have a couple issues I've come across. Having just rebuilt both my…
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This is a utility I wrote the first version of many years ago. At work, we have a need to remove old files from sometimes very deep directory structures. This…
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Getting a 500 internal server error when trying to use .net httpwebresponse with asp or aspx? I was when all worked ok via a browser and with other URL's. Try…
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Following on from my Centos updates, I've got to update my Ubuntu 10.4 boxes. Given ubuntu say this is bad and will break all sorts of things, I'm installing alongside…
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First, download the sources from http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources-stable/ You need mono-2.10.2.tar.bz2 and mono-basic-2.10.tar.bz2 then tar -xvf mono-2.10.2.tar.bz2 tar -xvf mono-basic-2.10.tar.bz2 cd mono-2.10.2 ./configure -prefix=/opt/mono make make install cd /usr/bin mv mono mono.old…
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