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In the Coppermine photo album on one of my websites I suddenly got a lot of comment spam. The causes are obvious. I’m allowing non-registered users to post comments on popular web photo album software.

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N95 as a wireless hotspot

For my work I travel quite a lot. Mostly I travel by train as this gives me the opportunity to take some sleep very early in the morning and do some work when travelling in the afternoon or evening. My Nokia N95 enables me to connect to the internet through 3G. It has a decent [...]

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After migrating some Joomla-sites from an old server to my new webserver with suPHP the search engine friendly urls didn’t work anymore.
The main problem was that the layout was disappeared for all sites other than the main site.
In the source code of such a page I found that all CSS files had a wrong [...]

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Who do you share a server with?

If you own a website then probably you’re sharing a server with a lot of other websites. Most websites are hosted on shared servers with hundreds of other websites. Thinking about this may result in asking some questions to yourself:

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Nokia SportsTracker no activities

The Nokia sportstracker is great free software on my Nokia N95 mobile phone. It can log your route for later reference. That can be in a sports activity but also your journey by for example car or train.
After a firmware upgrade of my phone. The sportstracker stopped working however. No activities are available in the [...]

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Command and Conquer gold on Windows XP

Installing and Running C&C gold on Windows XP
(instructions from EA)
Follow the instructions below to install and play C&C GOLD

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Send sent send - irregular verb

Send is an irregular verb. Here’s how to use it:
I will send the cake tomorrow.
I sent the cake yesterday.
I have send you all the info.

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Google desktop search uses a folder in which it stores its index files. This folder called “Google Desktop Data” is by default place in the “My Documents” folder of your pc. To me that’s not a logical place though as I only want to have files I actively use to be in the “Mt Documents” [...]

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After doing some small Windows Updates and I installed a plug in to be able to handle Office 2007 file types in my Office 2003 installation suddenly I get the following error when I tried to reply on an email from Outlook:
Microsoft Word is set to be your e-mail editor. However, Word is unavailable, not [...]

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How to remove Nero Scout

I try to keep my pc clean of software that I do not use. Nero Scout is such a piece of software. But it automatically comes to your system when installing Nero 7. It has an option build in to disable it, but how to remove it?

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