PC Tips & Tricks

A simple Codeigniter library to “slugify” your URL.
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mkisofs -J -allow-leading-dots -allow-multidot -R -V "Label" -iso-level 4 -o image.iso Folder


where:

• -J:  Generate Joliet directory informatio
• -allow-leading-dots:  Allow ISO9660 filenames to start with ‘.’
• -allow-multidot: Allow more than one dot in filenames (e.g. .tar.gz)
• -R:  Generate Rock Ridge directory information
• -V: Set Volume ID
• -o:  Set output file name
• -iso-level:  Set ISO9660 conformance level (1..3) or 4 for ISO9660 version 2

If your server setup does not support creating file systems snapshots rsync-ing the message store is not the best solution because you may have to keep Scalix off for a long time. So you will need another way for saving data.
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Ever wanted to extract text from a Microsoft Word document with PHP and COM? It’s not so hard as it seems. Create a Word document on your computer and use this piece of code:
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On Windows, Firefox 3 uses the installed antivirus software to scan the fully downloaded files. This might be a good idea, but it can be the source of some annoying complications: freezes, delays an so on.
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If you are using Codeigniter for developing PHP applications you noticed the “index.php” part of the URL of your application.

You can remove it by doing two simple things:

1. Edit the config.php from .system/application/config/ and change the $config['index_page'] like this: $config['index_page'] = “”;

2. Create a .htaccess page in the root of the Codeigniter application:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /CIapplication
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]


Edit line two in order to suit your setup.

Now you will be able to use: http://server.com/CIapplication/controller instead of: http://server.com/CIapplication/index.php/controller
In case this is not working, modify this line in config.php:

$config['uri_protocol'] = "AUTO";

and change it to:

$config['uri_protocol'] = "REQUEST_URI";


By: Amy Nutt

VoIP, or voice over internet protocol, simply put, is a way to make phone calls over the internet with the use of an analog telephone adapter. In making “phone calls” in this manner, the user can often avoid the high charges from the phone company, especially in the case of long distance calls.

How does it Happen?

A VoIP provider converts the audio message (your voice) from analog form into digital form with an ATA (analog telephone adapter) so that the media can be sent over the internet. On the other end, the digital media is then converted back into an analog form as would be heard on a regular phone call.
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By: Christa Kowalczyk

With the help of laser cartridges, you can save important raw materials, waste and energy. There are a lot of ways you can do this and even recycle laser cartridges.

The environmental battle cry is to “reduce, reuse and recycle!”

You can save important raw materials, waste and energy by using your laser cartridges again. In fact, there are approximately 44 million laser cartridges that are bought every year in Europe. 95% of these laser cartridges in the UK are thrown out after only one usage. Every cartridge has 1 to 2 liters of oil. It also has aluminum and steel. Every time you repeat using these cartridges, you will save these important, non-renewable resources and energy.
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By: Stephanie Yeh

When you are running your own network marketing or MLM business on a budget, nothing sounds better than the word “free“. What sounds even better is “free and good“. And although things in this world are rarely free and good at the same time, it is possible to find both free and good if you know where to look. If you are looking for ways to maximize your network marketing dollar then you should definitely check out these three types of MLM free software.

The three kinds of MLM free software we discuss in this article are designed to help you reach out to your prospects and stay in touch with them via email and the internet. When you are working with a medium as impersonal as the internet, it is truly important to reach out and make contact in as many ways as possible. An old network marketing statistics tells us that it can take seven to twelve contacts with a prospect before they even know you exist. That’s a lot of contacts! That’s why you want to use as many automated tools as possible to make this job as easy as possible. The three kinds of software we are going to discuss in this article are email/ezine software, blogging software, and PDF software. All of the software mentioned in this article is available for download on multiple sites, including http://www.tucows.com and http://www.download.com.
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by: James Wallis

Unless the backup is updated, this is accompanied by a sinking feeling as we realise that certain parts of the data are gone for good.

Data loss is a classic example of a preventable disaster, and we have no one to blame except ourselves in the aftermath.

What is Data Backup ?

How do we remember the phone numbers of all the people we know? We can’t memorize it all. So we can note it down in a diary. What if this diary is lost? It would either take us days to get back everything again, or we wouldn’t be able to complete the list at all. Most people use both their cell phone memory as well as a physical phone book / notepad. The process of creating a copy of necessary information at another location is called taking data backup. We save some data only if it is needed, so it makes sense to ensure what we saved remains intact. Backup, then, consists of the following steps:
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