Problem: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 Professional renders a bootstrap website with form controls in the wrong place and the layout is corrupt Cause: Internet Explorer 11 has been configured to display legacy banking website with ancient IE8 settings...
CakePHP 2 Slightly Better Looking than Default Pagination
Just trying to make my pagination in CakePHP 2 better looking. I added the first and last links but still had a radius on my previous and next links which looked odd and my 'last >>' link had a square end too. So a bit ugly really. Following is an example of...
Welcome to the Internet Helpdesk
On one of my client sites they have a Telstra Internet connection. An Exchange server sits on the network and forwards mail out to the Telstra Smarthost smtp.telstrabusiness.com. After an update to a Dansguardian proxy server and the subsequent failure of clamd to...
Gaining Access to A Windows Computer when you don’t know the Password
"The trust relationship with this workstation and the primary domain has failed" This error message isn't a big problem when you still have the local computers administrative usernames and login passwords. You just change your login details from...
Bootstrap CakePHP 3 Bootstrap-ui
In my learnings for make self glorious user of Twitter Bootstrap I have been looking at https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/bootstrap-ui I'm using https://github.com/jmcd73/cakephp3-ajax-samples as a place to stash my code so I don't blow my laptop away and then lose it...
White and Nerdy
Weird Al: Saying it like it is https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw
Synology Diskstation NAS appearing in Finder as not connected of connection failed
My DS415+ Synology NAS has just been updated to DSM 6.0 In my Mac Book Pro running OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 the NAS was appearing in Finder but when I clicked on it the finder pane showed "Not Connected" or "Connection Failed" and clicking the connect as... button...
CakePHP 3: Ain’t gonna GET if it ain’t gotta GET
Just installed CakePHP3 under nginx and tried to switch between pages of a paginated view and every time it would return the default 1st page. The url for each page was http://example.com/cake3/posts?page=2 Discovered using debug_kit that the GET request QUERY_STRING...
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