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MSN / Live Messenger – How to fix error 80072efd

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:52:25 +0000

I use Windows Live Messenger ( also known as MSN Live Messenger ) often for instant messaging. The other day I got the “80072efd” error. Luckily, I found a few things you need to check to get MSN Live Messenger working again: Make sure your firewall does not block MSN Messenger Make sure your Windows is updated If you [...]

Windows XP Update – Fix error 80070420

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:43:33 +0000

A few days ago, I was updating Windows XP and got the Windows Update error 80070420. Here is a method on how to fix it. Take the following steps: Go to Start, Control Panel Open Add / Remove Programs Search for the following: If you see the above item, click Remove. Reboot your computer afterwards. If you don’t see [...]

Windows Vista Update – Error 8024D00F

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:57:05 +0000

This post contains a solution for the Windows Vista Update Error 8024d00f

iSlsk – Your Firewire GUID couldn’t be recognized and therefore music importing will not be available

admin — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:47:49 +0000

iSlsk is a great app for the iPhone that enables you to use p2p on your iPhone. You can use it to download music to your phone. I installed it through Installer.app, but I a got an error message when I tried to put the music into my iTunes database. The error message I got was “Your [...]

On writing software

admin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:39:10 +0000

Is there something like a “programmers block” ? If there is, I’m sure experiencing one lately. I guess every programmer knows this. You wrote a piece of code and the following day you want to change it. The next day you want to change it again because “it isn’t the right way to do it”. Is [...]

Get the week number with JavaScript

admin — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:49:17 +0000

A few days ago I needed to code a little calendar in JavaScript. While I was doing this, I needed a piece of code to get the week number of a date. If you, for example, need to get the day of the month with JavaScript you can use this: var mydate = new Date(); month = mydate.getMonth(); I [...]

Speeding up your PHP apps with eAccelerator – How to install on Ubuntu or Debian

admin — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:02:16 +0000

I read a lot about the speed of programming languages that can be used for web apps lately. A lot of people think Ruby is cool because it’s so easy to build stuff. On the other hand, it will be probably be very slow. This is the same for everything that’s build in ASP and [...]

“Just because it sounds cool”

admin — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:12:57 +0000

Something that I can really be pissed off about lately is when people make statements that just don’t make any sense. They don’t have a good reason why they have such an opinion. The last time this happens a lot at my work at some big company. People that are above me in the chain of [...]

PhpMyAdmin problems after upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty

admin — Mon, 28 May 2007 21:52:38 +0000

Just a quick post about a problem I had a few days ago. I noticed after upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty from Ubuntu Edgy the last time, PhpMyAdmin didn’t work anymore. I got the following error: #1045 - Access denied for user: 'www-data@localhost' (Using password: YES) I searched around on the internet but couldn’t find a solution. Logging in [...]

Creating PHP cronjobs without cron and php-cli

admin — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:00:08 +0000

Yesterday my internet connection was down due a problem with the line. It’s often when I don’t have a connection to the internet I come up with good idea’s. A while ago I read in a blogpost that someone had a problem with wp-cron.php. It brought the server of the blogger to his knees. It was [...]