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Image corrupt or truncated: <unknown>
What is “Image corrupt or truncated: <unknown>” and what does it mean? This can often be seen while using Firebug in Firefox, but it actually has nothing to do with either and is just the error being reprinted in in firebug in most cases. It comes from an image that has had it’s extension changed from say .gif to .png or .png to .ico. Eventhough .png and .ico file types…
General Site Update
We are a Management Consultancy company and are split into IT and HR. Up until a short while ago our website had be quite general in it’s views to show the services of both divisions but we have decided to let our IT division take it’s own path so the website will be undergoing a transformation to show this. This will not affect any of our customers’ services or packages.
What is xmlrpc.php?
It is a script which allows clients to make procedural calls over the net. As it says in the name, the encoding is XML and because it is used on websites we can make the fair assessment that it uses the HTTP protocol. If we break the name down we get: XML transmition via Remote Procedure Calls. So you are still not sure what this is all about? Read on…..
Viva la 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!
You may see this around and not have a clue what the heck it is, weirdly enough, I did.. Why “weirdly” you ask, well, because, who would be looking for something like “09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0″. Let me elaborate.. The Urban Dictionary says it like this: “An alphanumeric string denoting a hack and insecurites in the HD-DVD coding.”…
Ternary Operation
If you do not know what the Ternary operator is, or do not use it while you are coding, let me be the first to tell you how much you are missing out! The Ternary operator looks like this: “?“, that’s right, it’s a question mark! My favourite way of using it is to shorten Conditional If Statements, so let me show you what I’m on about. The long way:…
How to Write Unmaintainable Code
I have come across the following article before and again came across it today, after a revised browse through, I thought I may as well add another link to it on the web for whoever ends up clicking on it! It really is a worthwhile (in a humor sort of way) read: http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=2547
Captcha Fail!
Hey, thought I’d just post this one incase anybody else sees it and thinks it’s funny. This is not really a very helpful post like most of the others on this site, but HEY! TOUGH! So feel free to smile if you like.. What do you know, a snippet of helpful-ness is about to appear-> This issue is usually caused by an invalid referrer! HA!
What is __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz ?
__utma, __utmb, __utmc and __utmz are 4 cookies created by Google Analytics, for a detailed and very informative read, go here and here.
How to Close Bandmix Account
If you want to close a Bandmix account, then: Login to bandmix.co.uk Go to Options – http://www.bandmix.co.uk/account/options/ Click Decline Service Then click the button called Decline Service at the bottom. Click “OK” to the verification popup. Account closed!
Chromium Operating System
As many of you may know, Chromium is an opensource project that is basically an Operating System built on Linux and is just like working in Google’s Chrome web browser. I decided to take a look at it today and went and downloaded the developer sneak release. It came all boxed up in a 764,994KB (764MB) VMDK Virtual Machine Harddisk file. When it finished downloading I was sadly quite excited…
Text Based Games
So you call yourself a passionate gamer but you have never heard of Text Based Games, well, my friend, most people don’t seem to have either! Most computer games are very visually appealing and based around how great their art and code all fit in line with one another, but imagine when the art side is almost totally removed and all you have visually are a few ASCII characters! WOW!…
