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If you are unable to play music on the web site www.turkishmusic.org it is most likely that you do not have Real Player installed. When clicking on a link to play music on the site you will receive a pop up asking if you want to open or save a file named t1.pl. The pop…
Dumping a PostgreSQL database without the data is easy. Issue the below command and it will output the database table structure to a text file that can easily be imported. bash pg_dump -U postgres –schema-only DBNAME -f FILENAME.sql The above can be imported into a new database using the below syntax. psql -U postgres DBNAME…
The git-svn tool is a simple conduit for changesets between Subversion and Git. It provides a bidirectional flow of changes between a Subversion and a Git repository. The latest msysgit distribution of Git for Windows (version 1.6.1 preview 20081227 at the time of this writing), does not come bundled with the the git-svn tool. This…
Adding a WYSIWYG editor interface to the ZenCart admin product descriptions page is easy. By default ZenCart actually offers HTML Area which is OK but since its so easy to upgrade to a real editor like TinyMCE or FCKeditor that is what I would suggest. First if you want to just enable HTML Area you…
I was attempting to save a file at 16 color 4 bit depth using Photoshop 4 on a Windows XP laptop. After creating or modifying the image and attempting to save the file as a bitmap (.bmp) the bitmap options would popup though I was unable to choose 4 bit under the depth option. I…
Windows XP and Vista both include a L2TP IPSEC capable VPN client. These clients are natively able to transverse client side Network Address Translation. However when the VPN server is also behind NAT these clients will not work without a registry change.
In attempting to get the current system configuration, via the Dell website, for my Dell D420 laptop I continued to run into issues. I originally thought that it must be an Internet Explorer cache problem, then went on to believe that it was a Internet Explorer add-on issue, then I thought it might be IE…
Recently I was installing some applications on a friends iMac computer and noticed his address bar was missing from the Safari web browser. I had never seen this before as I rarely use Safari though I imagine it was easy to resolve. To add the address bar back into the browser you can either restore…
Changing the Notepad++ default file save location is easy but the issue I ran into was the Update Notepad++ function was not working in the version of Notepad++ I was running. So I was attempting to modify the default save location which was not yet possible in the version I was using. Finally I decided…