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Google Drive Mobius Loop Icon looks Vaguely like a Recycling Symbol
I don't know if anyone else can see the similarity but the Recycling Symbol and the Google Drive symbol seem to be derived from the same concept namely a mobius strip or loop.
Check what your IP address is Online
There are many services that do this but looking in the Debian distributions package change logs I noticed that they are using http://checkip.dyndns.org/ to return your globally recognized IP address. And it returns a very nice sparse reply as follows. [code...
Getting APC Cache and batcache working on my Server
In Wordpress Admin Area Installed the "Batcache Manager" and "APC Object Cache" plugins using the Plugins ==> Add New option in the Wordpress Admin Panel and didn't activate created phpinfo.php in the web root of my webserver and called it via a browser Contents of...
Website Speed Up
Just discovered my traffic to this website has dropped by about 50% not sure why, could be the vagaries of searching engine ranking. Update: Apparently there has been some 52 algorithm changes on Google in April alone so I think I may be the victim of the Google SEO...
Inject IDE / SATA Drivers into an Ghost Image Restored into VMWare
Boot an XP VM with a working controller and the right Virtual Hardware Open Device Manager and expand the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers Choose the Controller and then go in and view the properties Make a note of the PCI\Vend string. In this case it's VEN_8086&DEV_7111...
Work-a-round for Windows 2008 Search not finding File Names
Profoundly confused by Windows search. After Windows XP|2003 it doesn't seem to find anything even if you know the file is there. Indexing doesn't seem to find the files either. Selecting it to find system and hidden and still no joy. So here is my work around for...
VBS to Answer how many fax devices a Windows Fax Server has.
Set FaxServer = WScript.CreateObject("FAXCOMEX.FaxServer") FaxServer.Connect "" ' use empty quotes if you want the local machine set FaxDevices = FaxServer.GetDevices() msgbox(FaxDevices.count) Discovered that this only queries physical fax devices that show up in Fax...
Ghost Image Restore Into VMWare Server throws 0x7B Boot Error
DISCLAIMER Update: This is for a SCSI disk controller 0x7B error. There is some information here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082 from Microsoft regarding IDE Controller Driver Injection into an image and I have tried it successfully. I have just taken a ghost...
Using VBScript for Sending Faxes to Windows Fax Servers
Note: I just discovered that this script doesn't work with network faxes. What I mean by this is the fax device appears to the user but isn't listed in the devices of the fax manager. So if you are wanting to send to a fax that is accessed via \\servername\faxname and...