11 January 2010

Enabling extensions and add-ons in Firefox

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If you are using a version of Firefox that hasn't yet been released to the public (e.g. a beta or RC version) you may find that some of ...
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28 January 2008

Unsigned drivers in 64 bit Vista (x64)

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In 64 bit versions of Windows Vista, you cannot install drivers that are not "signed". This means that if you're trying to ins...
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23 January 2008

Slow login system (ASP.Net)

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A slower login system is much harder to break into with a brute force attack than a fast one. If your login system takes 0.1 seconds to sa...
22 January 2008

<thead> and page breaks

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I learned today that printing a table with and tags will cause the header row to be repeated after a page break. IE7 doesn't do this b...
16 January 2008

IE caching AJAX requests

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I've just discovered the IE caches any AJAX requests made using GET. This means that if you made an AJAX call to the same URL twice, the...
14 January 2008

MySQL: Sort ascending with blanks at end

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It makes sense to have blanks at the start of an A-Z query, as a shorter length string should always appear before a longer length string st...
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10 January 2008

Ping a specific port

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You cannot ping a specific port, it just doesn't make sense. However, you can try to establish a Telnet connection to the port. In Wind...
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Telnet in Vista

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Vista does not come with the Telnet client installed by default. Go to Control Panel and then find the Turn Windows features on or off op...