Blog of an Open Mind

Came across this on another blog and I have to say that the future according to Microsoft looks superb…

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Had a minor issue today from a client using Open Mind Commerce that took a bit of time to track down and solve but the solution was quite simple so I thought I would share…
Open Mind Commerce uses ISAPI Rewrite to produce search engine sexy (I don’t like the word safe) URLs so www.domain.com/store/d1-my-department/ is [...]

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The amazing sleep walking dog

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Ever noticed how in some sites when a non-full width design is used, the design jumps slightly when the page is shorter than the full screen? This is because in Firefox, the vertical scrollbar tucks itself away when it is not needed i.e. the page is shorter than the screen display. This doesn’t [...]

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Now any sysadmin know that MS SQL server can generate whopper log files for the databases especially if there are a large number of transactions taking place. It’s simple enough to shrink the logs periodically but I wanted to find a way to safely automate this.
A quick Google turned up this very informative post [...]

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Well that s what I did with one slip of the command line. Instead of typing crontab -l for a list of the root cron jobs I used the -r switch by accident and poof, off went my root crons…
Dopey I know but I needed to reset the cPanel default cron jobs so after [...]

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The latest realease of WordPress (v2.6) has a rather odd bug that is not only annoying but a massive show stopper. I came across the bug myself when I recently upgraded the blog last month and it’s popping up all over the place so I though a quick post would help…
In essence, the problem [...]

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For the first time since its launch, traffic to the Google Checkout system has exceeded that of PayPals more established serviced.
According to reports from Hitwise’s Robin Goad, for the first time Google has taken a small lead in the battle to become the number one eCommerce software payment provider of choice. Although only launched [...]

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…over the true meaning of a bicycle pump…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7095134.stm
Gotta love the beeb

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Got an email this morning from a company called domainrenewalonline saying that one of my domains is due to expire in 90 days. The domain in question was indeed due to expire but it would be a clever trick as all my domains are through eNom.
Looking into this company a bit further, there is a [...]

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