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Can't play music after Firmware Update Version 3.0
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Can't play music after Firmware Update Version 3.0

Well we're all happy that the iPlayer from the BBC has come to PS3 in Europe but I'm less impressed about the multi-audio output. My setup is that the sound goes from the Playstation to the Sound System via Optical Out. I found that if you do enable the multi-audio output then you can play music again. What a bummer yo...

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Add a template to the dropdown in Kunena
Joomla

Add a template to the dropdown in Kunena

This is what I had to do to be able to add another template to the dropdown in the Kunena configuration panel: Download your site from your server to a copy on your local disk (hard disk, flash drive, etc) Make sure that the \components\com_kunena\template folder is on your local disk Make a copy of the default folder...

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How to run a .RUN file
Linux

How to run a .RUN file

I've been told of two ways of running a downloaded .RUN file. Note: Bear in mind that the following is all case-sensitive. Through the terminal server Download the .RUN file to your desktop Open a terminal by going to Application > Accessories > Terminal Type 'CD Desktop' to go to your desktop folder Type 'LS' just to...

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Ubuntu as a media server
Linux

Ubuntu as a media server

1. If someone wants to use Ubuntu as a home media pc connected to a tv, there is the problem of overscan; consumer tv's crop off the border around the image. How does Ubuntu intend to officially solve this? Right now LinuxMCE has it's own method for doing this so the LMCE UI is never cropped off, but when the user swit...

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Converting SQL date in PHP to European date format and vice-versa
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Converting SQL date in PHP to European date format and vice-versa

The Issue If you've ever made PHP scripts to process data within a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) then this happens a lot. In the following example, our HTML form will allow the user to specify a date (so excludes hours, minutes and seconds). For demonstration purposes, I'm going to be using the European...

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Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a file
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Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a file

The Issue Basically you have a HTML form with an input field type of 'FILE' (ie. <input type="file" name="file_to_upload" />) and want a PHP file to process this. This example applies to a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) environment. The Solution 1. The first thing to do is check that your HTML form is setup to do this:

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How to make a HTML form post its variables to itself
Hypertext Markup Language

How to make a HTML form post its variables to itself

The Issue You have a PHP page which generates a HTML form. When the user submits the form, you want the same PHP page to process the data. Solution I've seen a lot of people write CGI requests but if you left the action attribute blank, this would do the same thing: <form method="post" action=""> ...

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