HTML displaying £ instead of £

Oct 31
2011

Another quick fix – if you are finding that your html page is outputting £ instead of £ it is more than likely because you need to specify the content type meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

HeidiSQL query results hidden

Oct 27
2011

If you are trying to run a query in HeidiSQL and find that the results are not displaying, it is probably because the box has been pushed off the bottom by the query editor window. This can be caused by resizing of the various windows.

To fix this issues:

  1. Close all instances of HeidiSQL
  2. Open regedit.exe
  3. Delete the entry \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HeidiSQL\querymemoheight
  4. Restart HeidiSQL

Adding CSS3 Support to IE 9

Oct 21
2011

If you have been developing your first CSS3 theme in a non-IE browser such as Google Chrome, you might find that when you preview your new design in IE 9 there is still no support.

Luckily the solution is simple, all you need to do is add the following tag to yoursection and you should be good to go:

<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=Edge” />

Install subversion on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.7

Oct 10
2011

INSTALL SUBVERSION

$ yum -y install subversion

CHECK INSTALLATION

$ svn –version

$ svnadmin –version

CHECKOUT REPOSITORY

$ svn checkout file:///tmp/repos/test folder

UPDATE FROM REPOSITORY (navigate to folder)

$ svn update

COMMIT TO REPOSITORY (navigate to folder)

$ svn commit -m “your commit message here”

Install CNTLM proxy on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.7

Oct 06
2011
  1. Download rpm file from http://cntlm.wiki.sourceforge.net
  2. rpm -i [file]
  3. $ nano /etc/cntlm.conf
    Username user
    Domain domain
    Password password
    Proxy proxy:8080
  4. $ service cntlmd start
  5. System > Administration > Unbreakable Linux Network Configuration > General: Enable HTTP Proxy = localhost:3128