Posts by Andrew
New E-Commerce Store Launched
88plug is proud to announce the release of the Antiques Diva. “The Antiques Diva® is the nom de plume for Toma Clark Haines, an American expat living in Europe whose life story has been liberally sprinkled with Cinderella dust. As a child growing up in Oklahoma, Toma dreamed of global adventures. While other kids drew houses with picket fences, Toma drew gondolas with men in striped...
Read MoreStrip Tables HTML with Regular Expression
A simple regular expression will help you. I found this particulary useful when migrating client sites. 1</?(table|tr|tbody|td|th)(\s?[^>]*)>
Read MoreHTML 5 Video Converter
The best free and open source available for all you HTML 5 video needs(which include multiple format conversions) can easily be done with Miro Video Converter. There is little additional information available from the site, but this tool does exactly what the box says: Convert to: Theora WebM MP4 Video MP3 (Audio Only) Get it Here Although the application is 32 bit, you can run multiple instances...
Read MoreThinkPad x201 Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Wireless
The ThinkPad x201 is a great platform for Ubuntu 10.04. The default installation contains an outdated version of the Thinkpad BGN wireless drivers. After first boot you can see networks(not all available), and connect to some – but in general this will give you difficulties. The recommendation is to first update your installation via-Ethernet to automatically download the patch. ...
Read MoreMySQL error /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown option ‘–skip-bdb’
MySQL version 5.1.47 failing to start after upgrade? Here is the brief: Problem: tail -f /var/log/mysqld.log 1/usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown option '--skip-bdb' After poking around for a quick solution, nobody seemed to release that the bdb dependncy is no longer used in /etc/my.cnf configuration file. Old...
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