Windows 95/98/Me c:windowshosts Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:winntsystem32driversetchosts Windows XP Home c:windowssystem32driversetchosts Windows Vista,7 c:windowssystem32driversetchosts It doesn’t have an extension. Modifying requires admin access on NT/2000/XP and greater. Notepad must be started with full admin privileges by Right Clicking and saying “Run as Admin.”
If you’re using Subversion at some point you will get the infamous “SVN Working Copy xxx locked and cleanup failed” error. Why you get this error is not exactly known by me, but I believe it to be partly because of subversion’s case sensitivity and Window’s case ignoring. The simplest solution is to search for…
In the February 28th 2011 edition of Information Weekly, Chris Murphy wrote an article called “IT Is Too Darn Slow.” Chris’ article can be summarized best by “isn’t about the speeds and feeds of technical performance, of gighertz this and gigabit that.” Chris goes on further to suggest that cloud computing, virtualization, and agile approaches…
Today, at the office I had a very interesting issue where a user wasn’t able to sign into the SQL Server Reporting Services Manager. All services and programs make use of our domain controller for authentication to encourage the use of single sign on. This user is that couldn’t sign in, doesn’t actually sign into…
iSKORPiTX is some cracker that has apparently maliciously attacked thousands of websites and served mostly as a pain in the butt to the web development community and their customers. Godaddy appears to be one of his major targets as he maliciously hacks their websites. One of my clients, hosted on Godaddy, was hacked by iSKORPiTX.…
jQuery is so powerful and very flexible and usually makes so many complex takes so simple. Anything with a scrollbar and can be selected can be programatically scrolled to to the top. $(div).scrollTop(); Scrolling to top of browser window is as simple as: $(window).scrollTop(0);
Kijiji occasionally will block an advertisement from showing up for twenty four hours to prevent spam. I’m not really sure if an employee actually goes through the queue of waiting ads and checks if it’s spam or not. To find out where your ad is visible, you should use Kijiji’s status checker.
Setting focus to the 1st field in jQuery is actually really simple: there are some plugins that also can do it automatically on each reload of a form. I usually just use the following code on any pages where there is a form. <script type=”text/javascript”> $(document).ready(function() { $(“input:text:visible:first”).focus(); }); </script> Hope this helps.
Purchasing web hosting service is extremely easy; however, purchasing great web service is extremely difficult. Some of the web hosts pretty much register the domain and give you access almost immediately to some temporary space while the DNS wait period occurs. I can’t remember how long it took for me to get access to the…
I was surfing the local Kijiji looking to see if maybe there might be some interesting contract work. Naturally, I wasted approximately forty-five seconds reading the three advertisements until I found this really pathetic offer: “I need a website built in the next 4 weeks. Website will have up to or may be more than…
In general, we never should have embed JavaScript inside the same file as the HTML markup and should instead place the JavaScript into an external file. The content, presentation, and interaction code should all be separate to make your life easier as a website developer. Cleaner Code. Cleaner code is much quicker to find errors…
JavaScript and the respective frameworks have really began to gain traction over the last couple of years. I would argue that most of the JavaScript frameworks are excellent, and truly are great for the user experience and for the programmer experience.
Sadly, I still think there are a lot of companies that still just think,code, guess, code, guess some more and maybe eventually come up with something. We need a repeatable process that should be fairly iterative.
by Henry Spencer 1. Thou shalt run lint frequently and study its pronouncements with care, for verily its perception and judgement oft exceed thine. 2. Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end. 3. Thou shalt cast all function arguments to the expected type if they are…
Dell fails again, this time with a Dell Studio 1550.Keys being pressed weren’t being sent properly to Windows 7, and LEDs weren’t properly lit. Solution seems to be removing the battery and pressing the power button for 10seconds.
How do you test browsers? I don’t usually try for perfect pixel positioning in every browser, but if the client asks I won’t complain!
I believe that internet service providers need to be treated as “dumb” utilities like hydro, water, and sewage are.
It has been quite a while since I have used Yahoo! Answers. I often find many of the answers to questions are blatantly wrong or that the person answering doesn’t really provide a link to additional information. This blog post is designed to include additional information on the Get & Post methods of HTTP and…
