Epson 1260 (and others) and Linux
As I started using my Epson 1260 Photo scanner on my Linux box, I got some problems...The first scan works perfectly, and then on the second and following weird colors start appearing. Usually it is...
View ArticleLow Level Formatting Hard Drives
To low level format a hard drive, the best is to clear it with all zeroes or some random value.One of the easiest way is to use the cat command line instruction with the zero device: cat /dev/zero...
View ArticleNorton Anti-Programmers
Today I discovered why I was having a few hurdles last week.The IT department pushed the installation of Norton Anti-virus with some Internet controls, whatever the exact name is...The utility installs...
View ArticleMulti-level lists in MS-Word... The new way!?
Okay, it has been a little while now, but each time I just have to search forever to find out how to create a multi-level numbering list.By default, a list will appear as this:1. Chapter 1. Section...
View Articlestream_socket_client() fails with no errors...
Today I had a weird one.The PHP function named stream_socket_client(), used to create a socket to communicate with another computer over a network, may return $errno = 0 and $errstr = "".The PHP...
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