Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

Mount a Webdav folder in Ubuntu Linux

Webdav is a very handy protocol for writing files back and forth across the internet.
I’ve never really had much call for it – but I’m all for it lately as I’m trying out Alfresco and would really love to see a better way to upload files than the basic web-bsaed uploader that is provided.
As Firefox [...]

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Prevent Wordpress from Hanging when You Log on

I’ve set up a Wordpress site for a client and have had no end of troubles trying to get the site to behave – however there seems to be a constant problem of Wordpress hanging.
Looking further into it – I discovered that the feeds in the Dashboard were making the browser and site hang. There [...]

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Block Facebook Adverts in Firefox

Anyone using Facebook will know that it’s quite annoying losing a good chunk of screen real estate to the adverts on the right hand side.
Of course, many others think so and there is a nice extension that will block various adverts around the internet including Facebook’s own.
Now, I’m not going to get into the morality [...]

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BT Test User Account

Test your ADSL line using the BT test user account Broadband test
If you are unable to connect to ADSL using the login details provided by your ISP, then try the alternatives below to test your connection.
Here are the login settings to use for your router or modem to connect to the BT test domain.
User: [...]

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Google Down! World Stops!

Google Mail is down. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot Earth.

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The Union is (almost) Online (again)

Well, Mo’s been beavering away and has almost finished the new forum over at the-company.com. Keep your eyes peeled!
In the meantime there are considerations of webcrawlers and such to extract the content as ProBoards have said, quite simply, you can’t have the database with your content.
Ho hum.

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