Recently we acquired a nice Tandberg Video Conferencing system, we normally stick with the Sony range as its menu interface is very easy to use, but we decided to give Tandberg a try. What a beast, great slick menu system, loads of options, built in MCU (Multipoint Conference Unit), 2 XLR mic inputs (Phantom [...]

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By pure curiosity I decided (at 2am last night) to look into creating a search plugin for my Google Adsense Search. Well it was a very successfull adventure. It can be created for any site search, even your personal blog.
There are 2 ways of doing it (maybe more) I found .
1 – Create your own [...]

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Recently I was asked to upload a whole Excell database into an existing Mysql database. Looking online I found several responses and they had most of the answers I needed but also I had to improvise some coding. Here are the steps I took.
1 – Make the Excell file into a CSV. To [...]

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Ever wanted to see your control panel as a flyout menu in Vista rather than having to click on it, wait for the whole window to load and then sort though the applets?
Fortunately, the solution is very straightforward. First right click on the Orb and select properties.

Then simply choose ‘Start Menu’ from the tabs (it [...]

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Tonight at 8:30 I got a call saying that the projector is not displaying the picture, it just continually searches for an input, going through Scart, VGA 1, VGA 2 and USB.
There are several things that you need to check that could be causing the problem.
Check that the cable is plugged into the correct [...]

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I did a search on google search for “Linux Commandline” looking for some simple linux commands to do some work on my home Debian based (Kurumin) linux distro, and I came across this list of usefull commands. Interesting fact that a lot of other sites I visited also list this same site http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html .
Some of [...]

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