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Blog HP Officejet 6310 - Error Hits 1828 | Last Modified
Damn my IT luck. Whatever I buy, it doesn't work, or has a fault that involves me carrying it back to the bloody shop. Only this time, it was the last one, so I got my money back.
Misc Access denied by access control list Hits 14616 | Last Modified
My wife called my to the computer as there was an odd message on the screen.
Misc ASP / VB Script Smart-tag stripper Hits 14201 | Last Modified
Often, input comes from MS Word etc, which tends to insert a great deal of 'smart tags'. Combine this with the problems of Euro characters, copyright, accented letters etc, and you shortly have a database full of text that displays as square boxes once it has been through your ancient Cold Fusion code.
Misc Cannot insert explicit value error Hits 2274 | Last Modified
This error message had me scratching my head for a few minutes:
Misc Classic ASP XML Feed Reader Hits 14259 | Last Modified
No bells, no whistles, just a classic, no fuss feed reader. If you find that the feed is always unavailable, it may be badly formed, or you may have a problem with the way your server is configured.
Article COBOL Memories Hits 3935 | Last Modified
My college text book was dated 1984, and COBOL was starting to look dated back then... Thank your lucky stars you don't have to endure this sort of high-level nonsense any more!
Misc Cron Job Problems Hits 2264 | Last Modified
Oh, the irritation of Cron jobs. Written about as if it's simplicity itself in most places, trying to set these up using cpanel on a paid-for-hosting site can be rather tricky. And the cpanel documentation isn't very helpful, basically just informing me that I should be an expert linux user before even thinking about Cron jobs...
Article Digg Hits 1587 | Last Modified
How to put a digg this button on your story with a count, the easy way? I recently saw a few websites that had a 'digg this' button on their sites next to stories, and the button had the current number of diggs with it. Clever, I thought, how do they do that?
Misc Excel Games Hits 11334 | Last Modified
Some more unfinished things. These were games written in Excel by myself back in 2004 and earlier. In jobs with nothing on a computer except Excel it is still possible to entertain yourself!
Article Facebook blank profile page, cookies problems etc Hits 56401 | Last Modified
Logged into facebook and your profile (home.php?) page is blank? Is it complaining about enabling cookies? Are you using firefox?
Article Firefox won't open PHP pages suddenly Hits 21539 | Last Modified
Trying to access facebook I was suddenly told I was trying to download a PHP file, and what should I do with it. I said, open it with Firefox and then a hundred new, blank tabs opened... Solution follows.
Misc Get a remote page with ServerXMLHTTP in ASP Classic Hits 2644 | Last Modified
Pretty simple, and useful too:
Misc Google mail taking too long Hits 2945 | Last Modified
Getting this error? Loading... This seems to be taking longer than usual. Your session may have been interrupted. If your account doesn't appear in the next few seconds, please refresh this page in your browser. If you continue to have trouble loading your account, please visit the help center for troubleshooting information.
Article How to make an RSS feed with PHP Hits 2023 | Last Modified
A quick and dirty file that produces a RSS feed made up of recently modified files (txt, html, whatever).
Article HP Officejet 6310 Chat Hits 29714 | Last Modified
I bought an HP Officejet 6310, and had some problems. This is the online conversation I had for 'support'
Misc Java Hits 10168 | Last Modified
All pages related to Java on Ralpharama.
Article Javascript 101 Hits 1506 | Last Modified
This was going to be a long tutorial, but I only made it to Hello World...
Misc Javascript link-hover-box thingy Hits 21165 | Last Modified
You know how long I've been trying to figure out how to do a nice little hover-box pop-up when you dither on links?
Misc Javascript onloadRegister is not defined Hits 12773 | Last Modified
If you're getting mysterious javascript errors such as 'onloadRegister is not defined' when using Facebook, or Twitter etc, then read on, this might be the solution you were looking for.
Misc Javascript Smart-tag Stripper Hits 2899 | Last Modified
This can be used to strip evil smart tags from text that is often submitted via copy and paste from, say, Microsoft Word. In this case you submit the id name of an element that contains the text (e.g. a textarea)
Article Nokia N95 8GB - Contact names not showing Hits 14650 | Last Modified
I searched for an answer for this for an age. When people call or text me, their names didn't show up, just their numbers, even though they were in my address book. Not all of them though - just some! Some people worked fine!
Misc Output html with Javascript in VBScript/ASP Hits 3047 | Last Modified
If you want to output a large amount of HTML, say the body of a news story, but don't want it to be read by spiders and bots for some reason, you could use this trick to render it, client-side only, in Javascript:
Misc Problems with BT Broadband speed using a HomeHub Hits 8189 | Last Modified
My speed started to drop and eventually became tediously slow. From multi-megabyte to around 200k or less speed. This is a log of what I did to try and resolve the problem.
Article Ralpharama's Programming 101 Hits 2077 | Last Modified
A tutorial from 2003. It may still of interest, though a bit old: This tutorial may interest you if you satisfy the following criteria: You don't know anything about programming. You want to learn some Java. You think it would be fun to pass time writing inane little games. You want to write these little games to run in a browser window like Internet Explorer. Still with me? Good. I'm assuming no knowledge at all about anything, so, let's begin.
Article Resize an iframe dynamically Hits 630 | Last Modified
I found it tricky to make an iframe change size (its height) as it loaded new content. This solution works on FF and IE.
Misc Some pages load, some pages don't, in any browser Hits 5317 | Last Modified
Suddenly some webpages stopped loading for me, in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari, but not, interestingly, in Lynx. I used a BT Home Hub, and no changes had been made to my system for weeks.
Misc Syntax error in manifest - installing Windows XP original CD Hits 12035 | Last Modified
When installing an original Windows XP CD, either upgrade or full version, are you getting an error at the 39 minutes to go point that: Error: SXS.DLL: Syntax error in manifest or policy file?
Article Talk Talk Hits 34929 | Last Modified
This is a record of the problems I had with TalkTalk broadband some time ago.
Misc Tech Index Hits 2548 | Last Modified
All pages relating to IT technical stuff on Ralpharama - ASP, PHP, Javascript, SQL, HTML, CSS, RSS, XML, Web design problems etc.
Misc The Javascript Oracle! Hits 1911 | Last Modified
Fortune teller. The Javascript Oracle! Simply think about the question closest to your heart, the problem you have, the issue at hand... Think hard, then click on the button below.
Article TPF Hits 166287 | Last Modified
Tiny PHP Forum by Ralph Capper. Sadly, TPF is no longer supported by me. At some point in the future I might re-write it and re-release as a new version. You can find some information about it on this page though.
Misc WinSCP Odd File Problem Hits 2370 | Last Modified
Are you having an issue where file transfers to your server leaves the files mangled? The ending cut off, or parts of the script appended over and over?
Article Wireless Hits 3206 | Last Modified
Setting up a PC wireless network with a Linksys WAG54GS Wireless-G ADSL Gateway with Speedbooster and Talktalk Broadband and Windows XP.
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