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Armitron watch 40/8246, M0935 (WR330FT) instructions, and the MD-365

December 28, 2011
Armitron watch 40/8246, M0935 (WR330FT) instructions, and the MD-365

2011-12-28 Armitron watch WR330FT owner’s manual. Armitron Digital Sport watch 40/8246, MO935, owner’s manual. Armitron watch MO935 owner’s manual.   How to set an Armitron WR330FT, MO935, All-Sport Watch. How do you set the time on an Armitron 40/8246 WR330FT? Armitron Men’s 40/8246 metal gray, or any of the other colors, Chronograph Digital Sport Watch. I bought a 2nd Armitron watch, the M0935, and...

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Armitron watch WR330 instructions manual

December 20, 2011
Armitron watch WR330 instructions manual

Armitron watch WR330 owner’s manual Armitron watch 40/8177 Red, owner’s manual Armitron watch M807 owner’s manual (Actually, it is an M807 but you would never know for sure without a manual). How to set an Armitron WR330 Watch. How do you set the time on an Armitron 408177red WR330? Armitron Men’s 408177RED Chronograph Black and Red Digital Sport Watch. The name, model, of this...

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PHP: Writing your own functions

December 16, 2011

“All custom functions should start with xxx_ so that the developer knows a native PHP function is not being called.* where xxx == your initials, or the project’s initials, or …” An example custom function style: function pwb_my_function($parameter1, $parameter2) { global $an_outside_variable; .... return true; } functions with optional parameters suppose you are using a function with 1 param, and in some new cases,...

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how to make one of your Fedora pc’s visible on the Internet

December 5, 2011
how to make one of your Fedora pc’s visible on the Internet

How Do I Make my Fedora pc behind my router Visible to the Internet? How to Connect your LAN web server to the Internet If you install the Apache software package on your pc, you can make your pc function like an Internet web site server, create an html page and see it out on the internet – from anywhere. If you have more...

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Enhancing, expanding limits, customizing, phpMyAdmin

October 29, 2011
Enhancing, expanding limits, customizing, phpMyAdmin

The database tool, phpMyAdmin is NOT the only mysql database tool but it is and has been, the most popular and most awarded among MySQL administrators and developers. It was mentioned by the author of the first php and MySQL book I read. The administrators and developers I have met since, all use it. It is also one which can be installed on the...

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How to install and customize-personalize Zen-Cart

October 28, 2011
How to install and customize-personalize Zen-Cart

Tutorial help: how to find settings to set up, customize, Zen-Cart Fast. What Zen-Cart Won’t Tell You Running the installation program is easy. The time consuming part is removing their sample store demo files and changing ZC’s settings which are scattered all over. I made changes to the html several times because I did not know there was some setting in admin. The admin...

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moodle 2 lessons: grade errors

October 11, 2011

updated 2018-06-26 Unreliable grade tracking in lesson module moodle has known for years that their grades (course >> grades) are unreliable and that their calculations of “time spent in a lesson” are wrong, but have still, as of now, (moodle 2.1.2, October 10th, 2011) not done anything about it. 2017-2018: in moodle 3.3 the lesson module has been greatly enhanced. Much that has been...

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sequential hard disk access speed vs. solid state drives

September 5, 2011

Important SSD notes: In Linux, the operating system keeps both HDD’s and SSD’s from becoming fragmented. Unix/Linux “uses a journal instead of writing directly to the disk in sequence. … It will then write the journaled file onto memory and then onto the true disk blocks, but in linear mode.” In Windows, also, “Solid State Drives DO NOT require defragmentation. It may even decrease...

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How to keep a moodle database clean and trim

August 22, 2011

updated 07-25-2020 If your database is becoming very large “Help, my moodle database is huge!” How to delete old records in a huge moodle database How to clean moodle database tables. How to keep a moodle database clean and trimmed How to delete old log table records from a moodle database Moodle has “Site administration” settings to “Moodle keeps extensive logs of user activity....

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bash sub-stringing to put creation dates on .jpg and other files

July 10, 2011

to rename all my camera photos I need some string functions, to put the creation date on all the jpg files I need … jhead. Linux does not keep the creation date; it keeps the modified date. The date on the file changes as soon as you copy or edit it, like with a photo editor. if you have not modified the image so...

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ILLEGAL CHARACTERS in Filenames

June 21, 2011

There are a lot of existing Unix/Linux shell scripts that presume there are no space characters in filenames, including the default setting of the Bourne shell “IFS” variable. Each pathname component is separated by “/” therefore, filenames cannot contain “/”. Neither filenames nor pathnames can contain the ASCII NUL character (\0), because that is the...

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Internet Hacking 101, with PHP

June 1, 2011

The point is, a web site (blog?) with an option or requirement to login before commenting (or blogging) and no captcha, may be easy to get into as an admin. Make sure your web site is secure. Micah Lee, in 2600, The Hacker Quarterly tells how to “write code that automatically loads web pages, submits forms, and [can create an admin user-id in WordPress...

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quiz yourself on PHP

May 17, 2011

PHP 1.) The eregi() function is deprecated in PHP 5.3+ A. TRUE B. FALSE 2.) Which of the following will be most likely to work as intended: A. mail($headers, $body, $subject, $to); B. if ($i = $item) C. foreach ($i=0;$i $v) E. none of the above 3.) Which of the following is a valid php statement A. print ("<p> Hello World </p>"); B. echo...

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Clean up WordPress

May 7, 2011

There are some problems with WordPress which can be easy to fix if someone would just tell you how. Some issues involve portability: when you change internet hosting providers, and when you have a copy of your web site, certainly your wordpress blog, on your pc, it is a backup copy, and a place to safely try out things like new plugins and themes...

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Caching, the ultimate speed-up for wordpress

April 19, 2011

All dynamic web sites are built from server side programs accessing databases, and the more code, the more it is broken up – into separate files, the slower the access. Starting with the index.php, there are well over 2 dozen php programs that have to be accessed from the disk, and the fastest SCSI hard disks are still 1000 times slower than RAM. One...

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