Archive for the ‘General Geekery’ Category

DIY WordPress Social Media Icons

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

So, I was using a third party plugin to handle all my social media sharing, which was very cool at first, but it started slowing my site down (as it connected to another site), so a few hours ago I ventured out onto the web trying to find the code to do this all myself.

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Cookies Discarded When Using Hostname

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Have you had it that when browsing to a website hosted within a domain on an IIS server, you get logged off immediately?   If you then use the IP address it works fine, and also using ‘localhost’ from the server works fine?   This could be caused by a hostname containing an underscore.

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KiloBytes per second vs kilobits per second

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Here is an interesting formula for calculating the data transfer rate vs connection speed of a modem.

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Microsoft Rich Copy

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

This is an awesome tool.   Awesome awesome awesome.   Complete conditional control over anything you are copying!   You can use it for directory comparison, drive recovery and pretty much anything else your copying heart desires.   Designed initially as an internal tool for use by Microsoft, it has been kept up to date, and was officially released to the general public in April this year as part of Hoffman’s Utility Spotlight.

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How to restore a corrupt Windows XP registry

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Every now and again, you come across a machine that has the registry die completely, coupled with an error message along the lines of

Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

To restore the registry is relatively easy albeit drawn out, providing Windows Restore is enabled.

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Piriform Speccy

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Here is a piece of software that I think is great to have installed on your PC.   Definitely very handy to have from a diagnostic point of view.

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xkcd – Surgery

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Damn. Not only did he not install it, he sutured a Vista-Ready sticker onto my arm.

Damn. Not only did he not install it, he sutured a 'Vista-Ready' sticker onto my arm.

Virtual NES

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

I don’t know how many of you remember the good old days of NES. Or as we had in SA, Captain N the Game Master and our trusy 8-bit Golden China entertainment system.

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