Archive for the ‘Nonsense’ Category

Dreamweaver rewriting valid code as camelCase

Prevent Dreamweaver from rewriting your lowercase attributes as camelCase.

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Aleph Studios Is Launched

I’m excited to announce a new site of mine – Aleph Studios – which will be the new home for my web development freelance work.

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200 N. Kenilworth Ave. Apt. 2, Oak Park, Illinois, 60302

We are selling our two-bedroom condo at 200 N. Kenilworth Ave., Oak Park, Illinois, 60302. Great price. Unbelievable location. Walking distance to everything.

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Toolbar Page Rank of 6 and 3 one-line sitelinks

For posterity, a quick note that today I noticed http://www.ardamis.com/ was back up to a toolbar page rank of 6 after a number of months at 5. A little later in the day, I noticed 3 one-line sitelinks to: Colophon – About – Portfolio. We’ll, I’d have preferred different pages, but these are my first [...]

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Fixing the flickering in an external LCD connected to a laptop

How to resolve the horizontal flickering that appears on an LCD screen attached to a laptop.

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Advertising on Twitter

I’m sure I’m not the only person to think of this, but what if advertisers went back to giving away prizes to the ’10,000th customer’, only the prize would go to the person who mentions the product in the 10,000th tweet. For example, let’s say Pepsi is the product. Pepsi Co. makes it known that [...]

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Filesurf: A Needle in a Haystack

Update 7.2.10: Since this post, CARM has developed a new, more usable interface that improves the user’s ability to construct an adequately narrow search. Improvements to the database mean that searches of non-indexed fields are much more likely to successfully complete, rather than time-out. CARM still has a long way to go before finding an [...]

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Troubleshooting Xbox Live connection problems and Open NAT issues

Resolve Xbox 360 NAT issues by port forwarding or configuring your router to use bridged mode.

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Building an IIS web server on a home LAN

This post explains how to set up an IIS 5.1 server on your home network for serving web pages, and then add it to your Workgroup so you can edit those pages from a different PC without the need for an FTP server and client. You’ll need a PC running Windows 2000, XP Professional, or [...]

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Help Desk – Windows 2000 and Office 2000

A repository for troubleshooting responses to some common Help Desk calls regarding GroupWise, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat, Internet Explorer, and an assortment of other applications and hardware.

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