Archive for January, 2008

Installing Flash Player in Fedora

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 27 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: How To

I’ll admit that I’m not an expert on Linux. Proof of that was the difficulty I had in installing a Flash player for Firefox. I had no problems downloading the software, but during installation it asks where your web browser is to install the plugin. I’ve never been able to find exactly where Firefox gets [...]

Installing Firefox 2.0 on Fedora 6

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 26 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: How To

For those people who are still using Fedora 6 (version 8 is the latest), its possible to upgrade Firefox from version 1.5 to 2.0. You can download Firefox from Mozilla, but its a gzipped file and its easier working with an RPM. Red Hat doesn’t provide an RPM for this version, but you can use [...]

Commodore SX-64 vs. MacBook Air

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 25 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Humour

Source: regmedia.co.uk/2008/01/19/macbookcommodorecompare.jpg

Passing asp:FileUpload Data for Processing on Another Page

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 24 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Programming

I’ve been trying to write code for a user to select a file for downloading using the FileUpload control (in ASP.NET), and then passing that information to another page that has the code to download the file from the user. After some searching, I found a Visual Basic solution that used DirectCast. DirectCast is a [...]

The Letter That Started Joomla!

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 22 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: General

Once upon a time, there was content management system called Mambo. It was a leading edge CMS with a large following. Then, 2 and half years ago, a schism occurred in the group and those who left created Joomla! which was based on Mambo. Version 1.x was virtually identical to Mambo and it wasn’t until [...]

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