Rover 75: run cables from under bonnet to cockpit

I was laying cables for parking sensors to be used with the Rover 75 ride I got free of charge from my father. Running them from the holes in the bumper to the engine compartment was no big deal, but connecting the main unit under the bonnet to the display in the passenger compartment was [...]

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Starcraft under Wine freezes, hangs and crashes at random interval

After having played Starcraft II on my Windows 7 desktop, yesterday I was trying to get the first Starcraft to work on my laptop under Ubuntu Lucid with Wine; the wine-hq website reported the game as perfectly working, and in fact I only needed to install a patch to let the game start without the [...]

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Protect your WordPress contents from plagiarism with a digital timestamp

Since a while ago, I decided to release all the contents I produce with a Creative Commons license. Why? Well, once I publish my stuff online, anyone with an internet connection can read it; so, if they like it and want to make it more widely available, a stricter copyright policy would compell them to [...]

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Windows Mobile uptime since boot or battery swap, registry key

I am (at the date of writing) the proud owner of an HD2; given its limited 1200 something mAh battery, and my precaution of always having a spare battery for each of my devices (even if now, with the HD2, I got rid in one swoop of mobile phone, PDA, compact camera and bluetooth gps [...]

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PunBB e-mail notification on each new post extension

On another site I manage, I just switched from the previous forum script to PunBB; one feature I missed after the switch is the ability to activate an email notification for each and every post the users add into the forum, so I had to write my own. Following is the source code of the [...]

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reCAPTCHA Input error: Invalid referer and WordPress

Just today someone (thank you) pointed out there was an error with the recaptcha plugin in my WordPress comments. Checking it out, that “Input error: Invalid referer” is a generic error noone has ever pointed out to a single cause. At first I made sure the keys used by the reCAPTCHA plugin were correct, and [...]

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How to fix Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted in WordPress 3

This error is nothing new, per se, as far as I know it was present also in previous versions of wordpress (I’m a fresh new user and I’ve been using v3+ for more than I’ve been with 2.9.7 (first one I installed). When this error occurred in previous versions, all you needed to do was [...]

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Resize, enlarge or scale an html image map with a PHP script

I am creating a portal for an italian website which will sport a nice region selector with an imagemap, and region highlighting with a javascript. I found a free and detailed image map of italy along with a combined png, but it was too small to be really useable, so I needed to put a [...]

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Time of last visit to a website page in Firefox history

Last time I put hands on my car, a Rover 75, in order to change by myself the in-tank fuel pump (maybe a tutorial will be coming about that), I already knew it was going to be a hard task. That’s why I made sure I had enough time, it was a sunny sunday morning [...]

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Just premeried the WordPress version of the website!

I know it may seem like a horrid work at a first glance… and probably it is. Yet what you see is the result of a HARD work of moving the contents from the old website to this new one, in a way that they kept the format, and that the search engines liked the [...]

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