Convert .docx to .doc

Monday, December 31st, 2007

I have recently been getting quite a few documents by email from clients that use the .docx extension and found out that I am on the receiving end of a bitter Microsoft ploy to take over the office software market by brute force!

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Malaysian PHP User Group Down

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

I was wondering why http://www.php.org.my is down and discovered the domain name has expired. So just incase others are trying to access the Malaysian PHP user group website (the forums etc) – now you too know the reason!

Back From A MySQL Nightmare!

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Finally, my MySQL databases and server are back online! It has been days and days of endless stress and nightmares.

The disaster started after what should have been a simple upgrade of MySQL server. The existing install went down while configuring to allow external connections and the newly reinstalled version would then not start as a service.

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What Happens When The Network Is Down

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

I really feel for the IT admin guy… because I often am in his role… but this guy gets it really really bad…

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Reminder – PHP4 Running Out Of Time

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

In a news release dated 13-Jul-2007, the PHP development team (http://php.net) announced the phasing out of PHP4…

“The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.”

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Dr Roopi Running Illegal Abortion Clinic

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

News travels fast online and in free flow – which is why I was not surprised to find ample accounts of evidence suggesting that Dr. Roopi runs an illegal abortion clinic (regardsless of the age of the baby – which means post 3rd trimester).
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Exit Full Screen Mode In Terminal Server Client – KDE / Linux

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

When using the terminal server client in full screen mode you can minimize / switch back out of the session without logging out / exiting the terminal server client by using the shortcut key command…

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Emergency Perl Alarm Clock

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

I was up at 3am last night without an Internet connection and an alarm clock

- plus cron was not working so I had to come up with a way to build an alarm clock as fast
as possible to make sure I can wake up ontime to go to work!
I chose to do it in Perl for some reason and use the Debian XMMS music player to play a good song to wake me up. Here is the resulting code in case you ever need a quick and dirty alarm clock written in Perl!

Save this code to a text file called alarm.pl…

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