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Comcast Arris TG862 Gateway modem+router Won’t connect to ASUS X401A Mini-Laptop

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Comcast Arris TG862 Gateway modem+router Won’t connect to ASUS X401A Mini-Laptop Problems with brand-new Best Buy ASUS laptop connnecting to Xfinity cable modem: Mom’s New Laptop My mom recently bought an ASUS X401A 14″ Laptop which was equipped without an optical (CD/DVD) drive, and for wireless network connection only. When I’m at her house, I […]

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Why Is Comodo Blocking Localhost (127.0.0.1)?

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This post contains my notes about an issue I troubleshot with Comodo browser blocking localhost. These are some other related search queries that could land you here: Can’t Open ColdFusion Administrator in Opera or Internet Explorer 7 Can Ping Localhost, But Can’t Browse Below are some resources I found when searching for answers and solutions

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The Agony of Looping and Doing Foreach In XP DOS

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07/07/12 It has been a primary goal of mine for several years to write a Windows program, in either DOS or Perl, to automate changing the folder icon in a batch of subdirectories.  It is quite tedious to do this process manually, and when I am trying to customize folder icons this process can eat

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Free CSS Image Bullets: Marijuana Weed Leaf with Drop Shadow

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Free CSS Image Bullets: Marijuana Weed Leaf with Drop Shadow Why I’m Publishing These Images For Everyone to Use: I created these marijuana/weed/hemp/ganja css image bullets yesterday. It took about 30 minutes to locate and try various leaf images and select a final one, and the work itself took about 1.5 hours to design and

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Book: Facebook Application Development for Dummies, 2012

Facebook Obsoletes Less Than Year-Old Facebook Application Development For Dummies Book!

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Facebook Obsoletes Less Than Year-Old Facebook Application Development For Dummies Book! 2012.04.17 Just a quick rant here.  In what must be some kind of record, Facebook has pretty much made obsolete the book Facebook Application Development For Dummies (Wiley, by Jesse Stay), which I purchased about 7 months ago (August 2011 — only 3 months

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Zemanta Puts Unwanted HTML Comments In Pre-Formatted PHP Code (Sourcecode) In WordPress Posts

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PROBLEM: I  have recently determined through trial and error and process of elimination that Zemanta is responsible for adding extraneous HTML comments to my pre-formatted (with “pre” tags) PHP code that I have placed between “sourcecode” tags to activate WordPress.com’s built in programming code syntax highlighting. Here is a screenshot (fig 1.) that demonstrates the

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Building A PHP Database Connection Class From Scratch (using Singleton & ActiveRecord patterns)

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Greetings folks. Tonight I’m studying on how to create a PHP Object-Oriented MySQL database connection class.  This will be reusable and able to be implemented in any database driven web application built with PHP & MySQL.  It uses the ActiveRecord and Singleton design patterns. I’m currently following this YouTube tutorial: Using OOP PHP to select,

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PHP View Utilities Code Debugger – A Wrapper For print_r function

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Greetings folks. If you’ve ever gotten tired of having to type: [sourcecode language=”php” htmlscript=”true”] echo "<pre>"; print_r($some_var); echo "</pre>"; [/sourcecode] you are going to love the little debugger class I built. This is a very simple, basic class which doesn’t use patterns or anything fancy.  Actually, it may indeed use patterns that I’m not familiar

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Powershell – Executing commands which require quotes and variables is practically impossible!

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I’ve spent the last 2 hours reading an interesting bug report/forum thread about how executing commands which require quotes and variables in PowerShell is difficult (this was originally posted on Microsoft Connect, which no longer exists; replaced with archive.org link). I’m trying to understand how to properly quote commands with parameters and interpolated paths so

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