Archive for the ‘General’ Category

I had been trying to edit the hosts file on vista but always receives a message saying no privilege. I didn’t even recall setting up an admin user during vista installation.
Finally found a solution on the Internet:
http://www.maximumpcguides.com/edit-the-windows-vista-hosts-file/

Open Notepad with Administrative privileges by clicking Start, All Programs, Accessories, and then right-click Notepad and select to open [...]

I prepared a list of customers to send holiday card to then needed to print them out. Spent some time figure out things since this is the first time I used Mail Merge. Here are the steps that worked for me:

Exported customer’s list from Quickbooks into an Excel file
Cleaned up Excel file to removed duplicates, [...]

Please consult the original documentation for examples and more information.
Usage Example:
$format = “‘l M j, y \a\t g:iA’”;
date($format, strtotime($date_str)

Result: “Thursday Nov 29, 07 at 2:09PM”

Format Character
Description
Example returned values

Hour

H
24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
00 through 23

G
24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
0 through 23

h
12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
01 through 12

g
12-hour [...]

Last week, I spent some time customizing a Pligg installation. After reading many pages of code to familiarize myself with the process, I decided to share my findings in hopes that it will be helpful to some others who also need to customize the look of a Pligg site. This was my first time installing [...]