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Boiled Sultana Cake
This is our traditional cake for birthdays and Christmas. It was based on a recipe from our neighbor Marion S. It makes a wonderful moist cake that should keep for several days. Ingredients 500g Sultanas Extra raisins(approx 200g) 250g butter 3 eggs (NZ Size 7) 1 & 1/2 cups Sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 2… read more…
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A DVD writable disk that like engraving in stone
Want a DVD that will last 1000 years? Apparently that is what the makers of “M-Disc” are claiming. Remarkable as it seems these disks are quite different in their construction to standard dye based writable currently on the market and these disks are available for $29.99 for a pack of 10. In the pdf “M-DISC™:… read more…
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TinyMCE Zoyinc buttons WordPress plugin
Zoyinc buttons are a very simple WordPress plugin created to solve a specific problem. Download TinyMCE Zoyinc buttons Background I use the Weaver theme, TinyMCE Advanced and need to be able to include pieces of code using a syntax highlighter plugin. I would like to use Crayon Syntax Highlighter as it has a good rating… read more…
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Removing moiré patterns using GIMP
A moiré pattern typically occurs when you scan a printed picture and then view or print out that scan. The above picture is a classic example. This discusses how to use GIMP to remove, or mostly remove from your scan, the typical underlying cause of moiré patterns. The process we are going to use is… read more…
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Deleting and moving deep paths in Windows
The Problem Windows and even Windows 7, have a problem with paths that are over 260 characters. Basically DOS or command line and Windows Explorer can’t deal with paths this long. The thing is the problem is not about Windows API, the basic components of Windows, but about the programs that run in Windows. An… read more…
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HP Compaq dc7700 Small Form Factor
Summary The HP small form factor PC is a good choice for a fairly quiet media front end. I was able to put a fanless NVidia video card in it and its been pretty good. Ports/Slots PS2 Mouse and keyboard USB 8 SVGA Yes Modem None Ethernet 1 x Serial 1 x Parallel 1 x… read more…
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Transparent header on image background
What I am talking about is the site logo at the top of all pages, in our case the word “ZOYINC” at the top of this site; I struggled to get this working with Weaver II 1.2.7 theme with WordPress 3.5.0. In my case I have the header as “ZoyincTxtTransparent2.png” which looks like: Firstly you… read more…
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Resetting a PostgreSQL root password
Recently I upgraded to the latest Postgres version. I had a number of pain points doing this including not being able to start the DBs because the version upgrade was too big – had to export from old version and import to new. But one of the problems was that for some reason my password… read more…
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How to get the mod_jk connector for Apache
If you want to run Tomcat from behind Apache as many people do then you need to find a method of sending requests from Apache to Tomcat. One of the popular mechanisms is to use “mod_jk”. The problem is that Apache or httpd does not generally come with mod_jk. I had this problem when I… read more…
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Upgrading from Fedora 14 to 18
This post is about the upgrade process I followed to upgrade a VM from Fedora 14 to Fedora 18. I had struggled with this in the past but managed to get it working now. It probably helped that some time had passed and I did more research. As it transpired the upgrade from F14 to… read more…
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