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Install corkscrew on MacOSX

With corkscrew you can tunnel ssh through a proxyserver. You could get it through Darwin Ports but I like compiling from source better. That way you always have the latest versions. First get the sources [here].   Please note that … Continue reading

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Install Magento on Unix with mcrypt

Hopefully this guide will shrink the two hours I needed for the install down to half an hour for you. One of the problems I faced was that I had to inject mcrypt into an already installed php installation. But … Continue reading

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Samsung S1 mini with MacOSX and HFS+

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IIS7 Setup and Security

If you want to host a website on your intranet and you do not have any Domain Name Service installed you still can use the Microsoft’s webserver IIS by making use of Windows’ Netbios name resolution. After configuring IIS correctly … Continue reading

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Linux does look better in Windows

Just for fun -this is by all means a reference to Linus Torvalds biography- here’s a screenshot of Windows7 with a hacked uxtheme link library. I equipped the mighty Firefox with alpha stage add-ons featuring the upcoming Firefox 4 design. … Continue reading

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»¿ at the beginning of websites

That cryptic sign, the »¿ is a BOM – a byte order mark. This is set by some text editors, if you encode your page as UTF-8. Most commonly Microsoft Editors like Visual Studio or Expression Web add this BOM … Continue reading

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