Techno-wibble

Rex on December 16th, 2009

I’ve used Thunderbird for a couple of years and recently moved to TB3. It’s not been without pain though, and here a couple of the issues and my workarounds Indexing – lots of talk about this on the web. Despite leaving it going for over 24 hours, Thunderbird 3 had not finished indexing all my [...]

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Rex on July 28th, 2009

Dead Nintendo DS – slight rattle. First step – buy a tri-wing screwdriver – about £1.50 on ebay. Step 2: Check fuses Step 3: Resolder small black thing that turned out to be an inductor

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Rex on June 24th, 2009

Carrying power plugs – especially Britain’s big ones – can be the bugbear of any gadget-laden traveller. But one designer may have come up with a solution: a folding plug. Read the full story on TheRegister

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Rex on June 17th, 2009

In the recent Digital Britain report (out for consultation), the government makes clear it is looking to regulate the .uk domain industry. “In view of this, the Government has decided that on a precautionary basis it will seek reserve powers in any appropriate forthcoming legislation to regulate against the risk that the entry into the [...]

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Rex on June 15th, 2009

Are you suffering from: Warning: Compilation failed: characters with values > 255 are not yet supported in classes at offset 16 in /path/to/website/blog/wp-includes/shortcodes.php on line xxx. Fix it by changing a line  in /wp-includes/shortcodes.php. Look for the section headed “function shortcode_parse_atts($text)” and change the preg_replace line with $text = preg_replace(“/[\x{00a0}\x{ff}]+/u”, ” “, $text); This maintains [...]

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