Archive for the ‘How To’ Category

[FIXED] Internet Explorer starts with voice help about clearing cookies

How To, Other peoples software | Posted by admin November 28th, 2011

I don’t use Internet Explorer much.

I’ve got Internet Explorer 9 installed on 64bit Windows 7

One day I fired it up and got some mad message from an American voice whittling on about how to clear the browsing cache. What the hell is this!
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Getting Blank pages when using Search on your Blog?

How To | Posted by admin August 1st, 2010

So I’ve just spent some time fighting a bug on this WordPress blog.

It seemed that whatever search was typed into the search box, the search results page was blank. I really couldn’t work it out.

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Build a Computer for £25

How To, Needs a screwdriver | Posted by admin July 30th, 2010

So this is how to build a really cheap computer.

It’s going to be a Hyperthreading Pentium 4 with 2GB of memory.

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Creating an ISAPI

How To | Posted by admin July 26th, 2010

Primer I recently had the opportunity to mentor to a bunch of people who were not programmers, were not going to be programmers and weren’t really very interested in programming. They were account managers. They needed to have an idea of the sheer power of the technology the in-house programmers were using so as to enable them to do feasibility and costing on client requests for technical project work. (We don’t use Extreme Programming methodologies – bah!).Not being one to piss about I thought they could write their own ISAPIs with a quick and dirty Paradox table hanging off the back. They had an hour each (I think) and all of em finished.

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