Just idle drivel about a project I’m working on. Something about… xml + xslt and a whole load of self-righteous rant about how the world would be nicer if taxi’s were painted pink.

Since I returned to Windows from Linux I have had a few problems with PHP MySQL the hardest one I’ve found was the following: #1251 – Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client To explain this problem as simple as possible: The new MySQL version has a different password […]

Open notepad and generate the following batch file: @echo. @systeminfo | @find “System Up Time:” @echo. save it in your environment path (i.e. c:\windows\system32\) as: uptime.bat Then you can access that throught the following: Start > Run > cmd [enter] uptime This only works for windows xp pro, for windows xp home users: search for […]

For Josiah: Here is my KDE desktop on Vector Linux. I no longer use windows and haven’t done so in several months so this is all I have to show. Obviously click on it to make it larger. Might notice there is no alteration whatsoever to my desktop… it merely has a smaller kicker along […]

If you’re as stupid as I am… you may have made this mistake several times. Allow me to demonstrate my stupidity: I was copying a directory filled with some files (and in all honesty I am unsure if those files were fonts, conf files or whatever, although what I do remember is that the files […]

I recently made the move to Linux and I have decided to document everything that I found usefull for readers to note, if not they’ll serve me when I forget them. To extend you screen resolution beyond 800×600 when (in KDE) your Desktop Config/ Control Center wont allow you to change up. Open your terminal […]

Stupid to most, but the manual doesn’t make this clear enough: In your terminal type su and then enter your root password username@hostname:~$ su Password: This will allow you to install and access files anywhere on your installation; in fact without being root there is little point at all having a terminal screen. Well there […]

To disable this atrocious attribute that is set to default on the following application suites you do the following: In Word/Excel/Outlook/Access: (you choose) Tools > Customize : on the Options tab click on the Always show full menus Sorry this is short and vague but I was killing myself to find where this option was.

Need someone to download something from/to you but they don’t know shit about anything and they’re behind a firewall?

Quick backup of you MySQL dbs for windows