Aerial Photos of Fort Lauderdale

June 26, 2012
Aerial Photos of Fort Lauderdale

April 16th 2012 flight along the Gold Coast – Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Updated 02-05-2014. Fort Lauderdale beach Beach Place Mall, Ft Lauderdale beach Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale beach at A1A and Las Olas Pompano Beach (looking south)   Lighthouse Point Lighthouse Point Pompano Beach Deerfield Beach Boca Raton beach the 4 pilots who took turns flying the ‘copter the photographer  

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How to switch to Gnome 3, Cinnamon

June 1, 2012

updated 2016-09-20 How to make Gnome 3 look and work almost like Gnome 2: Cinnamon dnf install @cinnamon-desktop-environment note: MATE was built on gnome-2 CINNAMON was built on gnome-3 Once installed, on the next login, notice and click on the little gear icon next to the Sign In button. A drop-down list will show up providing the potion to use Cinnamon [ or Cinnamon...

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in SQL, first, select, then insert, update, or delete

May 9, 2012

updated 2019-04-19 My notes and sample code from experimenting and cleaning-up data. Always run a select statement before running an update or delete. Note: The phpMyAdmin tool, which is very valuable, adds “limit 0,30” to the end of most SELECT statements so don’t be tricked into thinking you have been shown all the selected records. You can change it by setting the config variable...

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A Few Puzzles for Thought and a Challenge

April 30, 2012
A Few Puzzles for Thought and a Challenge

updated 2019-06-11 How many cookies could you eat on an empty stomach? (1) letters: It occurs once in a minute, twice in a week, and once in a year. What is it? Here are a few “level 1” (easy?) puzzles   12 ?   Assuming all blocks that are not visible from this angle are present, how many blocks have been removed from this...

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how to boot up Fedora (any linux) without password prompting

April 26, 2012

updated 2021-10-19 If you always turn on your personal computer and “boot up” in Fedora 11-34 with the same user-id and don’t want the computer stopping at your user-id and password prompt every time, then, open a terminal session and edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf as root. You can insert 2 lines under the heading AutomaticLoginEnable=True AutomaticLogin= Users -> Automatic login -> on Debian and...

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Stopping Website Visitor Blog Spam

April 9, 2012

Stopping Website Visitor Comment Spam. IF you have a blog and want visitors to easily add a comment to an item, you will also get spam – lots of it – unless you, traditionally, forced visitors to create a login before commenting, or you used a captcha. As one guy said, “It’s really disgusting the stuff I have to block from my blog every...

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How to save all Power Point (.ppt) slides as .jpg’s in Libre or Open Office

April 9, 2012
How to save all Power Point (.ppt) slides as .jpg’s in Libre or Open Office

updated 05-08-2018 How to save, export, all Libre Office or Open Office, Impress slides to images, all at once www.OpenOffice.org www.LibreOffice.org “I would like to save my presentation (.ppt) as all .jpg or .gif or .png files. (which is a feature available in Microsoft Powerpoint) Is there any option comparable to this in Libre Office and Open Office (Impress)?” YES, in a round-about way....

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PHP DATE and TIME Functions, warnings

March 22, 2012
PHP DATE and TIME Functions, warnings

updated 2019-09-21 The Current Date, Time today (yyyy-mm-dd): echo date("Y-m-d") ; today (mm-dd-yyyy): echo date("m-d-Y") ; this year (yyyy): echo date('Y') ; date("F jS Y, h:i:s a T", time() ) ex: October 1st 2012, 05:05:31 pm EDT (ex: USA Eastern time zone during DST) j = day of the month 1-31 without leading 0. d = day of the month 01-31 with leading 0....

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php, Arrays

March 12, 2012

updated 2016-04-09 Array keys start from 0, not 1. In an associative array a key is associated with a value. An array in PHP is actually an ordered map. (each key is mapped to a value). array values can be other arrays, trees and multidimensional arrays are also possible. A value can be any PHP type. A key may be either an integer or...

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php 5.3: Speed Optimizations for Strings and Arrays

January 27, 2012

updated 2020-02-03 str, ctype, preg, explode, etc.. example: switch y-m-d to m-d-y list($YY,$mm,$dd) = explode("-",$date_stored); $displaydate = $mm."/".$dd."/".$YY; Real-World Experience Buffering A customer I contracted with had the experience of rare cases where visitors to his site would experience the computer starting to process their page request and then being sidelined while the cpu co-processed other visitors page requests – for as much as...

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php 5.3: how to stop strtotime(), date(), error

January 15, 2012
php 5.3: how to stop strtotime(), date(), error

Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings

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How to install and remove FONTS in Linux; UTF-8

January 14, 2012

updated 2018-09-15 Just like Windoze, Fedora (and Ubuntu) throws in a 100 fonts you don’t want and will never use. All, system-wide, fonts in Fedora, Linux, are in /usr/share/fonts/ for example /usr/share/fonts/google* /usr/share/fonts/kacst/ /usr/share/fonts/smc/ /usr/share/fonts/stix/ How to remove many extra Linux fonts fedora 27-28 : The biggest block of unwanted fonts is “Noto Sans …” It is a GOOGLE collection of fonts for many...

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PHP 5.3 Breaks “many things”

January 9, 2012

“PHP 5.3 brought many problems due to the PHP authors’ decisions to . . . break many things…” Also, they initiated the warnings of more things they intend to break in PHP 6. Be sure your error reporting is turned on: (for your testing copy or for your IP address) @ini_set('display_errors', '1'); error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); # or error_reporting(E_ALL); “PHP 5.3 breaks AtMailOpen.” “I tried...

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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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