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The Blackberry Curve 8320 has a built in WiFi card that can connect to T-Mobile HotSpot locations as well as any other wireless networks that you configure on the device. The authentication methods that are supported by this device as noted by T-Mobile’s support web site are listed below. Most home based wireless networks that…
I imported an old Blogger account into a WordPress blog recently and my titles did not import correctly. So there I was stuck with 500 posts with no titles. I decided the easiest way to fix that would be to copy the post dates from the Blogger account to the titles in WordPress. So here is…
When I was initially attempting to do this it was because I did not want to display a majority of the WordPress pages I was creating in the navigation or in the Pages Widget. After some research I located information on the WordPress Codex about how to exclude certain pages however this was not going to…
I do a lot of testing of web applications and feel like I am constantly deleting my Internet Explorer browser cache. Sometimes this takes forever and its a pain if you delete all of your browser history, etc. Windows has a way to view your cache which includes all of your cookies and cache files…
I installed ZenCart recently for a project I am working on and was playing around with the default design including switching some of the buttons around. I noticed that the search sidebox search button was not displaying. After a little bit of digging around I noticed an error in the code. The file that needs to…
Ever since we started this site I have been struggling with posting code snippets into WordPress blog posts. First I was attempting to use the <pre> and <code> tags but they would blow out the side of my Mandingo theme with two columns. I would then try to go through the code and break the…
To display the line numbers when editing a file with vi simply type the following during the edit. [quickcode:noclick]:se nu[/quickcode] Once line numbers are set then to remove the listing of numbers down the left hand column type the following. [quickcode:noclick]:se nu![/quickcode] VI Example: Displaying Line Numbers Useful VI references.
The best way I have found to emulate Linux commands for Windows is by installing CYGWIN. This is an application that will run on pretty much all Windows machines and provides a ton of Linux type commands. After installing CYGWIN you will need to set your path as noted below.
I created this site as a way for people to post errors, get responses, and learn in general. I have been a sysadmin in some sort of capacity for going on 10 years now and am just getting around to tackling being a programmer. Currently I have some shell scripting experience but overall I am…
I had created a script to run ask for a couple CLI arguements and then run httperf against a server. The goal was to load test a server for HTTP and for HTTPS. I added the –ssl switch but could not verify a couple things including if httperf had been compiled with SSL support or…