My Guestmap script and both the free and advanced versions of my form2mail script all have new versions that are in the final stages of testing (they are close enough to being finished that my main site is already using them). In each case the script has been rewritten to add support for mjultiple languages [...]
Some web sites provide easy to follow instructions on how to do things. Other sites such as the Xbox Live site make things as confusing as possible so that you will do all the wrong things and then have to harrass their support staff for a way around the mess. Here’s what to do to [...]
This is the craziest thing I have seen. Filezilla 3.2.5 lists the following in its updates: – Fix “Timer creation failed” message boxes on update download dialog. Actual update download was not affected, only display of the progress bar. Not only does the “Timer creation failed” error ONLY occur when trying to download that version [...]
If you are using Internet Connection Sharing to share an internet connection on one computer with other computers on a local network then you not only need to have ICS installed on the computer doing the sharing, you also need to configure the other computers so that they know where to find the internet. ICS [...]
When you are first starting out with creating your own web site the last thing you want to worry about is creating all those nicely interactive features that are going to attract people to come back to your site on a regular basis. Fortunately there are a number of sites around that provide many of [...]
With the fifteenth reference page on CSS we move on to a section that only applies to certain types of media such as printed output where the content is broken up into pages. These are the controls that allow you to specify where such page breaks should occur. Page Controls
I have recently tested out several different free firewalls. While my network setup means that none of them ever saw any inbound attacks and given how careful I am in what I download, none of them saw any outbound access attempts either. All I can judge the firewalls on therefore is how easy they are [...]
I have been programming computers since the late 1970s, performing a wide variety of different computer programming jobs, and using a large range of different languages - mostly writing accounting and financial systems for mainframe computers. Since the market for mainframe computer skills moved offshore I have been writing about computers, teaching computer courses in the classroom, and also doing accounting work.
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