Bad Chrome ?

Posted on September 9th, 2008 by graeinler
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Beginning of September 2008 Google announced its new web browser called “Google Chrome“. Given that official sources say that it is still under development and for most part is still considered critical.

The Ministery for Secure Information Technology” (BSI) in Germany has issued a warning, to avoid this security risk by not installing this Chrome for now, that was published in the media this weekend.

Here is the official statement:

CCleaner for your Windows Box

Posted on September 6th, 2008 by graeinler
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As I write this, I’ve moments earlier upgraded my CCleaner install to the latest stable release version. I’m proud to say that this is the only file management application I’ve been using since I last reformatted my personal computer and It has never let me down since and saved me from a number of occasions. (cleaning up the cache of your Firefox is amazing!) To say I am in gratitude to those who develop and maintain CCleaner is an understatement. Which is why I kind of felt bad when then I saw a Paypal Button for a chance to show them support. I know i’m not yet ready to pass on my lowly Adsense income.

So I thought, I can show them love by:
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mySQL Error #1064

Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by graeinler
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Importing and exporting mySQL dumps for most of the time is quick and easy even for both phpMYadmin and SSH. Unexpected errors do occur, considerably, if you are transferring your data between WebHosts and their different mySQL versions.

One of these is the Error #1064 which occurs due to a mismatch between the mySQL versions and it’s corresponding reserved words, which if used causes the error occur.

The simplest and most effective solution for it is.
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Howto publish websites via FTP on Microsoft Frontpage

Posted on May 31st, 2008 by graeinler
Filed under: FTP, Microsoft, applications, tips - howto's, websites | No Comments »

Microsoft FrontPage has been outdated for a while now and replaced by Microsoft Expression Web 2. A number of good folks still use it though and have their websites even running on FPE! (FrontPage Extensions)

What makes things worse is that Microsoft have stopped development and support for FP leaving WebHosts no recourse but to drop FPE from their servers and leaving end-users with a broken website.

An option for them then is to:

  • Publish via FTP using Frontpage
  • Switch to an MS Package where Microsoft Frontpage Extensions (MSFPE) is still available.

    • If they opt to publish via ftp, this is possible as Microsoft FrontPage supports two methods of publishing files to the web server: HTTP POST and FTP though HTTP POST is the default publishing feature in Microsoft FrontPage (using the PUBLISH button), and the preferred method for uploading the Microsoft FrontPage created web site.

    To use Microsoft FrontPage to upload a web via FTP, perform the following steps:

    1. Open your web in Microsoft FrontPage Explorer
    2. Click FILE -> PUBLISH WEB
    3. Type in the destination FTP Server name in the location box in the form of:
    ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com
    4. Choose whether you wish to publish all pages, or only changed pages since your last publishing session
    5. Click the PUBLISH button
    6. Enter your FTP username and password when prompted

    Hope this helps and let me know just about anything.

    graeinler smirk

    Lightbox 2 Quick Fix

    Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by graeinler
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    Author Homepage » http://www.stimuli.ca/
    Plugin Homepage » http://www.stimuli.ca/lightbox/
    On Wordpress » http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2/installation/

    I’ve addded Lightbox 2 for my plugin arsenal as part of this website semantic facade. Uncommon for most plugin installs, I got an error for this installation :(

    Error:
    Warning: opendir(/webpages/xx/bxxxxxxxxx/htdocs/xxxxx/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/lightbox-2/Themes) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory in webpages/xx/bxxxxxxxxx/htdocs/xxxxx/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/lightbox-2/options.php on line 28

    This “No such file or directory” gave it away as a quick check on the directory structure confirmed that its actually there. So it can only be of 2 things, the permissions on the folder or its filename.

    I renamed the folder to ‘themes’ and it worked like a charm. I’ve never thought of linux to be picky on filenames but I have noticed that most have them in lowercase. I can’t explain why it happened, could be on the code of Lightbox or could be something else. But hey it works and I just love Lightbox 2.

    Btw, if anyone can help me with my questions above, please feel free to educate me.

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