Yearly Archives: 2009

December Desktop

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How customer service should be

Awesome and entertaining customer service from IWOOT! I’m sorry to hear about this, but thank you for letting us know. I’ve just sent a request for a new one to be sent out to you, so you should receive it … Continue reading

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PHP function: is_serialized()

I needed a way to detect if some values were serialized or not, annoyingly PHP does not provide a method for this. I’d also rather not perform unserialize() on everything to check for a serialized string in the name of … Continue reading

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Vacuum Firefox on Ubuntu

It was suggested to me to use vacuum places to improve my Firefox awesome bar performance, as I’m still using Firefox 3.0 which is packaged with Jaunty; I do have 3.5 installed I just use it for testing sites at … Continue reading

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September 2009 Desktop

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HP strikes back

Hewlett Packard, and others, strike back with ever more excessive cardboard gluttony; the Register has the details. BT’s feeble attempts at a cardboard indulgence.

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June Desktops

On the old desktop I used temporarily:

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May Desktop

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Home Office Gaffe

The UK Home Office published a consultation paper on the 24th April detailing their plans for draconian data retention and access rules, which will see ‘communications data’ retained by ‘communications service providers’. As concerning as the whole thing is, there … Continue reading

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Another phpBB Hook

Further to my entry last month about a phpBB Hook to disable the post queue for certain users, I’ve written a really quick one to enable phpBB’s debugging mode for founder users. Debug mode is usually enabled by using the … Continue reading

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