February 7, 2012
by Ashley Knowles
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Microsoft has a track record for releasing horrible operating systems every now and then, as witnessed by the IT world more recently with Windows Vista. It begs the question, after a very successful Windows 7, what is in store for … Continue reading
August 9, 2011 by Ashley Knowles | 0 comments
August 5, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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My home computer is a Mac, now running OSX Lion. I’ve become quite accustomed to the backwards/reversed scrolling which seems to be the default in Lion – and matches the “natural” swipe up/down gestures you would use on an iPhone … Continue reading
July 23, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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Every 2nd Saturday and Sunday makes up what I call “F1 Weekend”. I run a Winfast USB HDTV tuner, which only runs in Windows, and so I have to run it virtually in Parallels Desktop on my Mac. It runs … Continue reading
July 16, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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Why you’d ever want to do this is probably a discussion best left to the political arena. But for the purpose of that thing I call my “day job”, I was required to do just this. External website, authenticates against … Continue reading
May 26, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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osCommerce fails to check stock level correctly when going through the order process. The problem is two fold, and is worsened by the use of PayPal. If you use PayPal for payments, this code will not work as expected for … Continue reading
May 20, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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Installing JIRA on a Windows 2008 R2 x64 server today, and had to install MySQL for the database back end. Sounds simple enough… It’s been a while since I setup MySQL on a Windows installation, so I was pleasantly surprised … Continue reading
March 30, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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This is a little something I’ve been working on for an experiment. It’s a pretty basic prime number generator. At the moment, it’s using what I call, an “exponential” search function which I thought of. It’s probably been thought of … Continue reading
March 28, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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I feel like a bit of an IT guy, turned philosopher with most of my recent posts, but what the heck! Back to another hectic semester of uni, and I’ve learnt a very valuable lesson from one of my lecturers … Continue reading
March 24, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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I had looked at this a while ago but gave up thinking it was too hard, too time consuming. It still is. To begin with, Subversion, or SVN, is a version control system, typical used by programmers and the like. … Continue reading
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