Technology
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Upgrading to Movable Type 4 with MTCommentFields
By now, there's a reasonable chance that if you've wanted to upgrade to the latest release of Movable Type, you've done so. But you may still be waiting. Perhaps you're hoping that your favorite plugin will be updated (there are still a few that haven't been released for…
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Making Your Movable Type Menus Snappy Again
When Six Apart released the latest version of Movable Type, the software underwent a massive rewrite. The interface changed considerably from what it had been, and by most accounts it is a good change. There are, however, a few things that just don't work quite right. One of…
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How to Fix a Common MT4 Feed Formatting Error
Over the last few years, the term beta has been somewhat misused. It used to be that when you used beta software, you expected to encounter problems. But when Google started throwing around the term for its offerings, people came to expect that beta software wasn't so bad….
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Easily Create and Even Edit PDF Files
Though Microsoft would probably wish that things were different, these days we come across the ubiquitous PDF almost constantly. The wonderful thing about the PDF is that just about anyone can read it, which isn't always the case with documents created in a word processor. While a lot…
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No TiVo DVRs available on the network
If you have connected your TiVo to the network, then there is a good chance you have seen this message. Unfortunately, there is not much help from TiVo desktop in resolving this message, which can often be the case with errors, and can make your enjoyment of TiVo,…
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Configuring a Cisco 1721 for Use as a Broadband Router
It's somewhat rare that I work with Cisco equipment these days, but it does happen from time to time. Those days that I do, I almost always end up glad that I don't do it more often. Of course, if I did it more often, I would probably…
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FastStone Capture and Photo Resizer
It's not often that I use new software. Of course, new releases mean that I have to do so from time to time, but it's fairly rare that I will actually use entirely new software – it's just that I'm fairly set in what I use, and I…
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How to Create a Real Media Server with Tivo and pyTivo
Though I've used TiVo for some time, and though I'm really quite fond of it (we actually have two), it's done little more than whet my appetite for the day that I can create an actual media server. Up until recently, the problem has been that the TiVo…
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Using SpamLookup and Akismet to Control Spam
A subject came up today about writing a regular expression to block a particular text string in comments received by a Movable Type blog. If you aren't familiar, the Spam Lookup plugin gives you great power over the processing of comments (and trackbacks, if you happen to receive…
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How I Overclock My Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
For the first time in quite a while (we're quite likely talking a measurement of years here, rather than months), I decided that I wanted to build a new system. Inspired by two things – posts such as Building and Overclocking a Core 2 Duo System and the…