Big input, small space

Having gotten used to the Zip-Linq mini-mouse with the retractable chord, I was worried that I wouldn’t feel equally happy with the two targus wireless mice I got for the …

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File and directory browsing (downloads) for Joomla!

I’ve been revamping a site that’s been collecting dust for far too long. The original site is in really ugly (codewise and in design) plain vanilla HTML, so I’ve decided to move it to Joomla; not so much because Joomla is the ultimate tool for this site, but because there are too many fun CMS-type tools out there, I’d be doing nothing else but getting myself buried in playing with them 🙂

The quest at hand: to find a suitable file and directory browsing (aka “download”) add-on for Joomla.

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PuTTY with Tabs

From time to time, I need to boot one of my workstations into Windows instead of Linux, and I’m always reminded of the applications I take for granted under Linux. …

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Please Metricate Thunderbird!

From Tsuguya Sasaki’s “Thunderbird: Guide for the Perplexed”: Please Metricate Thunderbird! United States, the guardian of English as the putative universal language of computers and the Internet, is one of …

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Dell is getting Dull

Have you ever purchased something from Dell? If you haven’t, don’t.. unless you’re in constant need of recycled advertising material. Seriously.. I’ve made the “mistake” of buying three Dell products …

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Search and Replace in MySQL

While converting a Drupal site to a Joomla site, the need to do a textual search and replace inside a MySQL-table came up. There are, of course, many ways of …

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