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2008 Summary of Posts

Posted January 3rd, 2009 in Miscellaneous Postings

This post is the last of the three summary posts for the start of this year (the monthly roundup and 2008/2009 overview of the past two days). Normal posting will resume tomorrow with a MySQL post.

Summary of posts

I posted 351 new posts in 2008.

I posted 288 new posts in 2008, not including the Weekly and Monthly Roundups.

I posted new posts on 323 days of the year, so there were 43 days with no post.

Summary of posts by section

The following lists the sections of this website with a count of posts in each section in 2008.

Apache	3
Applications	36
Case Studies	10
Email Servers	7
Hardware & Gadgets	5
HTML and CSS	8
Javascript	17
Linux/Unix/BSD	61
Microsoft SQL Server	10
Miscellaneous Postings	27
Monthly Roundup	12
MySql	23
PHP	64
Running	6
VMWare	7
Weekly Roundup	53
Windows	12

List of posts 2008

The following is a list of all posts for 2008, excluding weekly and monthly roundups and running, and a few I didn't think needed to be in this list. It's broken down by section and ordered by date. I've split the Applications section up into groups of common post by application.

If you've only recently started reading my blog, you may want to have a quick look through the list to see if there's anything that interests you and is worth a read.

Apache

• Changing Apache log rotation behaviour on CentOS / RHEL (22 Mar 2008)
• Changing the .htaccess filename in Apache (17 Apr 2008)
• Aliasing images to a remote server with .htaccess (19 Apr 2008)

Applications - Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe Photoshop ignoring ctrl+alt+print screen (24 Apr 2008)
• Change Adobe Photoshop Filename Compatibility Options (10 May 2008)

Applications - FCKEditor

• FCKEditor 2.6 fixed issue with pre tags (31 May 2008)
• FCKEditor 2.6.2 is released - fixes page scroll on ENTER (25 Jun 2008)
• FCKEditor: Using a custom configuration file (09 Aug 2008)

Applications - Firefox

• Change where Firefox saves files to by default (16 May 2008)
• Selectively delete cookies in Firefox (27 May 2008)
• Backup/export bookmarks with Mozilla Firefox 3 (24 Jun 2008)
• How to disable Javascript in Mozilla Firefox (19 Jul 2008)
• Clear Firefox's cache to clear favicons (12 Dec 2008)
• View and delete cookies for the current website in Firefox (18 Dec 2008)
• Firefox is already running but is not responding (26 Dec 2008)

Applications - Google Chrome

• Google to launch Chrome web browser tomorrow (02 Sep 2008)
• Google's Chrome web browser is released (03 Sep 2008)
• Google Chrome "not supported" by Google apps (05 Sep 2008)
• Create application shortcuts with Google Chrome (07 Sep 2008)
• Google Chrome Stats (11 Sep 2008)
• Google Chrome automatically update itself without asking (14 Sep 2008)
• Chrome Javascript date bug (03 Oct 2008)
• Google Chrome Stats - follow up (08 Oct 2008)
• Change the download location and prompt in Google Chrome (10 Oct 2008)
• Google Chrome switch to the dev channel (24 Oct 2008)

Applications - Outlook

• Show Outlook envelope icon in Windows system tray (20 May 2008)
• View email message headers in Outlook 2007 (08 Jun 2008)
• View Outlook 2007 emails as plain text (26 Aug 2008)

Applications - Other

• Enable the Web Interface for uTorrent (30 Apr 2008)
• Playing DVDs with Windows Media Player 11 (25 Jul 2008)
• Rename tags in Google Reader (27 Jul 2008)
• 10 Useful Free Windows Apps (21 Aug 2008)
• 9 More Free Windows Apps (28 Aug 2008)
• Safari / OS X Proxy Issues (10 Sep 2008)
• View the raw email message in Gmail (05 Oct 2008)
• Change the window title in Putty (16 Oct 2008)
• Installing subversion on CentOS (30 Nov 2008)

Case Studies

• Linux CD Mall Reskinned (02 Mar 2008)
• Hitwise Awards 2007 (22 Apr 2008)
• Cyetec Smart Alarms (22 Jun 2008)
• Just Kids Website - as at 12 July 2008 (12 Jul 2008)
• Just Kids Website - new website launched August 5th 2008 (07 Aug 2008)
• Product zoom function JK Kids (02 Oct 2008)
• Kidzstuff website design revised October 2nd 2008 (04 Oct 2008)
• Personalised Plates Website Changes December 3rd 2008 (04 Dec 2008)
• Personalised Plates New Star Sign Plates (09 Dec 2008)
• Electric Bookmarks Website Launched (23 Dec 2008)

Email Servers

• Dovecot "Cannot allocate memory" error (12 Mar 2008)
• Postfix "file too large" error message (14 Mar 2008)
• logwatch "postdrop Illegal seek" and "sendmail queue file write error" (04 May 2008)
• Changing the Postfix maximum email size (15 Aug 2008)
• Flush the exim mail queue (06 Sep 2008)
• Show the exim mail queue (09 Sep 2008)
• Show the sendmail mail queue (02 Nov 2008)

Hardware & Gadgets

• New laptop - Toshiba A200 (08 Apr 2008)
• Vista Laptop Issues (11 Jun 2008)
• iPhone 3G available in Australia, Italy, New Zealand and Portugal on July 11 (08 Jul 2008)
• My new phone - Nokia 6121 (10 Sep 2008)
• Remove Vodafone Live from the soft keys on a Nokia 6121 (17 Sep 2008)

HTML and CSS

• Centering a page with HTML and CSS (06 May 2008)
• Using Internet Explorer Conditional Tags for Style Sheet Selection (21 May 2008)
• Internet Explorer 8's compatibility flags (30 May 2008)
• Targeting specific versions of Internet Explorer and other browsers with conditional comments (18 Jun 2008)
• Style an HTML form input with CSS and jQuery (26 Jul 2008)
• Remove cellpadding and cellspacing from an HTML table with CSS (05 Nov 2008)
• How to do the TM symbol in HTML (08 Nov 2008)
• Switch off autocomplete for an HTML form field (06 Dec 2008)

Javascript

• Using Javascript to focus a form element onload (05 Jan 2008)
• swfobject "t has no properties" error (28 May 2008)
• Which browsers support which versions of Javascript (07 Jun 2008)
• Use normal href if Javascript is disabled (12 Jun 2008)
• Clearing the default value of text input with Javascript (17 Jun 2008)
• How to check if a Javascript function exists (05 Jul 2008)
• How to disable Javascript in Mozilla Firefox (19 Jul 2008)
• Style an HTML form input with CSS and jQuery (26 Jul 2008)
• Javascript getYear fix (13 Aug 2008)
• Work out the Webkit version with Javascript (21 Sep 2008)
• Chrome Javascript date bug (03 Oct 2008)
• Always make FCKEditor paste as plain text (11 Nov 2008)
• How to get and set form element values with jQuery (13 Nov 2008)
• How to check and uncheck a checkbox with jQuery (14 Nov 2008)
• Opening a new window with Javascript (22 Nov 2008)
• Find the index of a string within a string with Javascript (28 Nov 2008)
• Adding, removing and checking if an element has a CSS class with jQuery (16 Dec 2008)

Linux/Unix/BSD

• Host operating system reinstall (03 Jan 2008)
• How to mount an ISO image on Linux (10 Jan 2008)
• Mount reiserfs partitions on CentOS 4 (11 Jan 2008)
• SUSE Error libpopt.so.0()(64bit) is needed by rpm-4.4.2-140.x86_64 (13 Jan 2008)
• How to mount an ISO image on FreeBSD (15 Jan 2008)
• redhat-lsb-3.0-8.EL conflicts with file from package... (02 Feb 2008)
• Dynamic MMap ran out of room error on Debian (05 Feb 2008)
• Getting Transaction Check Error with Yum (07 Feb 2008)
• openSUSE Complains it "Cannot Find Repository" when installing (08 Feb 2008)
• Format a partition with the ext3 filesystem (12 Feb 2008)
• Saving a file downloaded with wget with a different name (14 Feb 2008)
• SSH server security through obscurity (15 Feb 2008)
• Changing the default text editor on Linux (16 Feb 2008)
• md5sum: only one argument may be specified when using --check (20 Feb 2008)
• Saving time and bandwidth by creating a DVD image from CD ISO files (21 Feb 2008)
• Public key not installed error when installing from Dag RPM Repository (26 Feb 2008)
• How to install jigdo on CentOS and RHEL (27 Feb 2008)
• How to use jigdo-lite (29 Feb 2008)
• Slax 6.0.2 Released (04 Mar 2008)
• SUSE Linux 10.2 DVD Differing MD5SUMS (05 Mar 2008)
• Checksums do not match, image might be corrupted error with jigdo (06 Mar 2008)
• Unknown partition table error (07 Mar 2008)
• Create CDs from a DVD with jigdo (11 Mar 2008)
• Checking daylight savings settings on Linux (13 Mar 2008)
• Create multiple ISO images with jigo-lite (18 Mar 2008)
• Knoppix 5.3.1 Screenshots (02 Apr 2008)
• genisoimage/mkisofs "Incorrectly encoded string" error (04 Apr 2008)
• Modifying the Linux Grub boot loader's options (05 Apr 2008)
• Zenwalk Linux Live 5.0 Screenshots (09 Apr 2008)
• Directory listings slow with ftp server and CentOS (23 Apr 2008)
• Ubuntu 8.04 Released (25 Apr 2008)
• Reverse Mapping Checking - Possible Break-in Attempt Error with SSH (02 May 2008)
• Stop logwatch reporting on a particular service on CentOS (03 May 2008)
• logwatch "postdrop Illegal seek" and "sendmail queue file write error" (04 May 2008)
• Change download mirror for Fedora when using jigdo (13 May 2008)
• Fedora 9 Released (14 May 2008)
• File failed to download with Fedora jigdo - completed with rsync (15 May 2008)
• Delete a file starting with a dash/hypen on Linux on the command line (06 Jul 2008)
• Switch off sound notifications in Fedora 9 KDE (15 Jul 2008)
• How to enable mouse wheel scrolling in Kubuntu under VMWare (18 Jul 2008)
• Can't mount NFS share on Ubuntu/Kubuntu (20 Jul 2008)
• 10 essential tricks for Linux admins (24 Jul 2008)
• Test if a file exists with the BASH shell (27 Aug 2008)
• Using nohup to prevent processes stopping on disconnect (02 Sep 2008)
• Argument list too long when copying/deleting/moving files on Linux (13 Sep 2008)
• New Zealand daylight savings starts on Sunday (26 Sep 2008)
• undefined reference to yywrap error when compiling sysmon (27 Sep 2008)
• Errors compiling sysmon 0.92.2 on CentOS 64 bit (28 Sep 2008)
• Sysmon init script (05 Oct 2008)
• Bash shell becomes inactive on Ctrl+S (09 Oct 2008)
• Fix UTF8 characters displaying in Linux man pages (14 Oct 2008)
• Change the window title in Putty (16 Oct 2008)
• Download Crossover Office today for free (29 Oct 2008)
• Run a cron command every 15 minutes (30 Oct 2008)
• Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released (31 Oct 2008)
• Fedora 10 released (26 Nov 2008)
• Add the RPMForge custom repository to CentOS (27 Nov 2008)
• Installing subversion on CentOS (30 Nov 2008)
• List installed packages with YUM (02 Dec 2008)
• Nagios trends.cgi not found error (05 Dec 2008)
• SUSE 11.1 Released (19 Dec 2008)

Microsoft SQL Server

• Get a list of tables with MS SQL Server (16 Jul 2008)
• Describe table structure with MS SQL Server (23 Jul 2008)
• List stored procedures with MS SQL Server (30 Jul 2008)
• Unable to modify table, timeout expired errors with Microsoft SQL Server (12 Aug 2008)
• Check Index Fragmentation with SQL Server 2000/2005 (22 Aug 2008)
• Export data from SQL Server to a tab file with bcp (08 Sep 2008)
• Export selected data from SQL Server to a tab file with bcp (09 Sep 2008)
• Using Cursors with Microsoft SQL Server (19 Sep 2008)
• Using dateadd in SQL Server to add intervals to dates (04 Oct 2008)

Miscellaneous Postings

• Incorrect exchange rates used in Google EFT Payments December 2007 (02 Jan 2008)
• Don't forget to backup before messing around with hard drives (06 Jan 2008)
• Google corrects incorrect payment amount (08 Jan 2008)
• Network Solutions Steals Domain Ideas (12 Jan 2008)
  
• Network Solutions Steals Domain Ideas - Follow Up (31 Jan 2008)
• Use of www in website addresses - follow up (03 Feb 2008)
  
• eBay "Internal error to the application" RSS feed error (03 Apr 2008)
• Transaction declined errors when testing DPS (22 May 2008)
• The Linux CD Mall is now closed (23 May 2008)
• Dreamhost Promo Codes and Vouchers (06 Jun 2008)
• Why do they expect free support? (11 Jul 2008)
• IMDB website design changed (04 Sep 2008)
• Website changes September 11th 2008 (12 Sep 2008)
• PHP Job Opening at JK Kids (24 Sep 2008)
• Website changes October 2nd 2008 (03 Oct 2008)
• Change your login and/or password at GoDaddy (15 Oct 2008)
• Website changes October 17th 2008 (17 Oct 2008)
• GoDaddy Coupon Codes 16 November 2008 (16 Nov 2008)
• Google search changes 22nd November 2008 (23 Nov 2008)
• GoDaddy 99 cent .com domain coupon code (29 Nov 2008)
• How to unlock a domain name at GoDaddy (14 Dec 2008)
• Electric Bookmarks website minor delay (17 Dec 2008)
• How to get an auth code from GoDaddy (21 Dec 2008)
  
• Co-browsing with Live Person (28 Dec 2008)

MySQL

• Showing running queries in MySQL (19 Feb 2008)
• Executing shell commands from within the MySQL command line client (11 Apr 2008)
• Using the MySQL command line tool (13 Apr 2008)
• Running queries from the MySQL Command Line (16 Apr 2008)
• Find the length of the longest string in MySQL (09 May 2008)
• Listing tables and their structure with the MySQL Command Line Client (18 May 2008)
• Using "group by" and "having" with MySQL (05 Jun 2008)
• Check if a MySQL table exists (13 Jun 2008)
• PHP function to check if a MySQL table exists (14 Jun 2008)
• Reset the auto increment value for a MySQL table (28 Jun 2008)
• Renaming a table in MySQL (02 Jul 2008)
• Upper case and lower case strings with MySQL (29 Jul 2008)
• Optimize a table in MySQL from the command line interface (04 Sep 2008)
• Optimize a table in MySQL from phpMyAdmin (06 Sep 2008)
• Optimize tables in MySQL automatically with PHP (07 Sep 2008)
• Using date_add in MySQL to add intervals to dates (25 Sep 2008)
• Hide the information schema in phpMyAdmin (11 Oct 2008)
• Selectively dumping data with mysqldump (17 Oct 2008)
• Hide selected databases in phpMyAdmin (21 Oct 2008)
• Run a single MySQL query from the command line (06 Nov 2008)
• Insert multiple records into MySQL with a single query (03 Dec 2008)
• How to update the max_connections setting in MySQL (10 Dec 2008)
• Setting the MySQL timezone per connection (20 Dec 2008)

PHP

• Splitting a large Apache log file with PHP (04 Jan 2008)
• PHP error Call to undefined function ImageCreateFromPNG (09 Jan 2008)
• Install APC for PHP on Linux (06 Feb 2008)
• Displaying PHP APC Cache Information (09 Feb 2008)
• PHP Error Class 'XsltProcessor' not found (13 Feb 2008)
• Create a file with a unique name with PHP (28 Feb 2008)
• Determine whether PHP is being run via HTTP or CLI (08 Mar 2008)
• Determine whether PHP is being run via HTTP or CLI - Follow Up (09 Mar 2008)
• 301 redirect with PHP (15 Mar 2008)
• Correcting the PHP timezone (16 Mar 2008)
• Allowed memory size exhausted when installing a PECL module (21 Mar 2008)
• phpMyAdmin prevent popup window for query editing (10 Apr 2008)
• Zend Framework Controller Router example (12 Apr 2008)
• Using the HTTP_REFERER variable with PHP (18 Apr 2008)
• How to tell if it's a leap year with PHP (29 Apr 2008)
• Database error handling with the Zend Framework (11 May 2008)
• Set the default font size for phpMyAdmin (17 May 2008)
• phpMyAdmin "operation could take a long time" message (04 Jun 2008)
• PHP is not showing any error messages (10 Jun 2008)
• PHP function to check if a MySQL table exists (14 Jun 2008)
• Command line arguments with a PHP CLI script (15 Jun 2008)
• Command line arguments for the PHP CLI (19 Jun 2008)
• JpGraph Error Can't access PHP_SELF, PHP global variable (27 Jun 2008)
• List compiled modules with the PHP CLI (29 Jun 2008)
• Get a list of all available functions with PHP (03 Jul 2008)
• Get an image size with PHP (09 Jul 2008)
• Get a list of all available classes with PHP (10 Jul 2008)
• Get a list of all available constants with PHP (17 Jul 2008)
• Image headers with PHP (22 Jul 2008)
• 303 redirect with PHP (31 Jul 2008)
• Type casting with PHP (10 Aug 2008)
• PHP Date Constants (16 Aug 2008)
• Using the FCKEditor HTML Editor with PHP (20 Aug 2008)
• Sending email with Zend_Mail (23 Aug 2008)
• PHP CLI counter for long running processes (29 Aug 2008)
• Optimize tables in MySQL automatically with PHP (07 Sep 2008)
• Update PHP from the command line with YUM (16 Sep 2008)
• Fix the mbstring PHP extension not found error in phpMyAdmin (18 Sep 2008)
• Work out if a number in PHP is odd or even (23 Sep 2008)
• New Zealand daylight savings starts on Sunday (26 Sep 2008)
• Return information from PHP print_r instead of displaying it (30 Sep 2008)
• Change the user agent string in PHP (02 Oct 2008)
• Intialise an array in PHP with default values (07 Oct 2008)
• Hide the information schema in phpMyAdmin (11 Oct 2008)
• Hide selected databases in phpMyAdmin (21 Oct 2008)
• phpMyAdmin "Cannot start session without errors" (22 Oct 2008)
• PHP SoapClient "Unable to parse URL" error (23 Oct 2008)
• Check if a PHP script is already running (28 Oct 2008)
• 404 Page not found with PHP (29 Oct 2008)
• PHP fatal libpng error: zlib error (04 Nov 2008)
• Using hash algorithms in PHP (07 Nov 2008)
• CodeIgniter loading models error when changing web host (09 Nov 2008)
• How to use PHP's __autoload function (12 Nov 2008)
• Zend Framework 1.7.0 released (18 Nov 2008)
• Get the class name and parent class name in PHP (19 Nov 2008)
• 5 PHP job and programming experience tips (20 Nov 2008)
• Validating numbers with PHP (25 Nov 2008)
• Method chaining with PHP (07 Dec 2008)
• Check if a class exists with PHP (11 Dec 2008)
• Set the content encoding type with PHP headers (13 Dec 2008)
• Google Analytics Screen Widths with PHP (Firefox) (17 Dec 2008)
• Google Analytics Screen Widths with PHP (Internet Explorer) (24 Dec 2008)
• RSS with PHP - Don't forget to set the Content-Type (27 Dec 2008)
• PHP list of php.ini directives (30 Dec 2008)

VMWare

• Host operating system reinstall (03 Jan 2008)
• VMWare Server Console Connection Refused (10 Feb 2008)
• Install VMWare Tools on a Linux Guest Virtual Machine (17 Feb 2008)
• Access denied when logging into VMWare Infrastructure Web Access on Windows (08 May 2008)
• VMWare Server - errors opening virtual machines from Workstation/Player (20 Jun 2008)
• How to enable mouse wheel scrolling in Kubuntu under VMWare (18 Jul 2008)
• VMWare busy inodes on changed media message (20 Sep 2008)

Windows

• Editing the hosts file on Windows Vista (20 Apr 2008)
• Enable the administrator account in Windows Vista (07 May 2008)
• Windows Vista Black Screen After Login (29 May 2008)
• Windows Vista Black Screen After Login - Resolved (26 Jun 2008)
• Reset administrator and other user passwords in Windows XP etc (04 Jul 2008)
• Playing DVDs with Windows Media Player 11 (25 Jul 2008)
• 10 Useful Free Windows Apps (21 Aug 2008)
• 9 More Free Windows Apps (28 Aug 2008)
• How to flush the DNS cache on Windows (03 Sep 2008)
• Display DNS cache on Windows (05 Sep 2008)
• Windows Vista "Prepare this blank disc" issue (18 Oct 2008)
• Windows XP Update includes Internet Explorer 7 (21 Nov 2008)