Escape ampersand in PHPWord docx documents
If you are trying to output documents to DOCX using PHPWord and you are getting broken files due to there being ampersands in your source, then the fix is simple. It’s talked about in...
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Nexus 4 solid red light dead
Just a quick post to explain how my Nexus 4 died at the weekend, and was revived just now! My Nexus 4 was low on charge at the weekend, about 4 percent, so I...
Upgrading from Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy to 14.04 Trusty – unresolvable problem
I’ve just been trying to upgrade my server/workstation to the latest 14.04 alpha from Ubuntu but became slightly stuck with the standard instructions of: update-manager –d Or: sudo do-release-upgrade -d I got: An unresolvable...
rpcinfo -t NFSSERVER nfs -> RPC: Port mapper failure – Authentication error
I’m been adding some resiliency to the NFS set up at work recently. Â Mainly to allow the clients to gracefully handle the server being MIA at boot, and to allow them to lose and...
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS percona-toolkit depends on…
So I was trying to install Percona Toolkit on a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 LTS install that I’d just installed Percona Server 5.5 onto. wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.deb sudo dpkg -i percona-toolkit.deb Selecting previously deselected package...
LinuxMCE 10.04 Single Network Card
I did a DVD install over LinuxMCE using a mid July snapshot and for some reason it didn’t detect that I only had one network interface (nic) on my DFI Lan Party motherboard. I’ll...
Rename Google Apps Standard Edition account
So I recently got an Android phone, the Galaxy S. I didn’t notice when I picked it up from the Ormskirk O2 store, but it’s bigger than my old iPhone 3GS (That got a...
First blog post, finally!
Ok, I’ve finally set up a blog! Agh. I’ve been tweeting for quite some time, my drive for this is.. it’s time to get back on to starting things and finishing them! I’m doing...
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