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Make google tool bar work in Firefox 5 or 6

I upgraded to FF6 and my google tool bar stopped working. Google is no longer supporting the toolbar past FF4 (why????)

Anyway, to make it work is pretty easy.

Go here:
1 C:\Users\[YOURNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[RANDOM NUMBERS/TEXT]
2 Search install.rdf, will return several results.
3 Find the install.rdf that has Google Toolbar for Firefox in it.
4 Edit that file and change maxversion from 4.* to 6.*
5 Save, and restart firefox.

And your tool bar should be back! Note, assuming the Google tool bar was installed on FF4.

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Primera Technology, makers of DVD Duplicators

Skygle has been doing work with Primera Technology of Plymouth, MN for several years. Primera is the makers, among many other things, of the popular Bravo Series Disc Duplicators. These duplicators are most often uses as DVD Duplicators, one of the most popular mediums. The line up starts with the entry level BravoSE duplicators. A single burner and printer automated robotic unit. Then the BravoPro Xi can be a dual disc recorder and printer unit. The professional grade units are the Bravo XR.

bravo duplicators

bravo dvd duplicators

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Not bitter

http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/08/26/if-i-could-starting-over/#comment-166309

Not bitter.

My family has done well. And I have experience with people that are struggling in life. And too often I find myself thinking ‘All they need to do is…’ But then I remind myself that from my vantage point things are easy.

For example, I own 3 rental properties. One of my tenants was short on the rent, short just a couple of hundred bucks short. Both partners smoke, smoking in Canada is darn expensive. $7.00 a pack, got 2 smokers smoking, 2 packs a day.. (7*2*30=$420)… So when the tenant was telling me they were short I am thinking in my mind ‘You cannot afford to smoke, quit smoking.’ But for me, as a non-smoker, it is easy to think/say that.

Just like from Shoe’s vantage point it is pretty easy (or seemingly easy, so he makes it seem) to do well on the Internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

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Shoe Money blog craps out

I’m an avid fan of reading ShoeMoney…. today his blog crapped out… wonder how much money he lost.

update, shoemoney blog is down again, Wednesday at 7:40 AM ET. He must be losing a bunch of money!

Update, third day in a row Shoe’s blog has been down. Thursday at 9:01 AM.

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showing PHP erros via .htaccess

add this to the your .htaccess file.

php_flag display_startup_errors on
php_flag display_errors on
php_flag html_errors on

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Faicon.ico works in Fire Fox, but not IE

A client’s favicon.ico was not working in IE. After a little head scratching it turns out the clients created the ICON by change a JPEG file extension from .jpg to .ico.

An easy to detect this is to bring up the icon in FF like this:
yourdomain.com/favicon.ico and look at the program bar, see screen shot.

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“I can certainly help you out with that”

I just called NetWorkSolutions. The man, John, taking my call said “I can certainly help you out with that” after I described my problem. Then he instantly told me that there was not a solution to my question. So he could not really help me, unless helping me was making me realize I was stuck.

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php 301 redirect

PHP Redirect

< ?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.YOUR-NEW-URL.com" );
?>

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chat with adobe

Please hold as we route your chat to an Adobe Representative.

Welcome to Adobe.com! My name is Pierce. May I assist you with your selection today?

Pierce: Hello, how can I help you?

Paul Avery: Hi

Paul Avery: i stupidly bought CS4 master collection

Pierce: Hello Paul.

Paul Avery: and now I see Cs5 is coming out

Paul Avery: for the same price that I paid

Paul Avery: if i would have waited 3 or 4 weeks I could have got CS5 Master Collection for the same price

Paul Avery: so I wanted to figure out if there is something you can do for me

Paul Avery: Bought it March 23, 2010

Paul Avery: i bought directly from adobe too

Paul Avery: ID: paul.avery@skygle.com Order #AD002975994 Products ordered: Qty Product 1 Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection (Windows,English) Total purchase amount: US $2,823.87

Pierce: Since you’ve already placed an order for Adobe S4 Master Collection on March 23, 2010 you can upgrade to Adobe CS5 Master Collection.

Paul Avery: for free?

Pierce: No, you need to pay for the upgrade.

Pierce: Paul, according to Adobe Post Announce Upgrade Policy customers who purchase an Adobe product during a limited time after Adobe announces a new product version are only eligible for a free upgrade to the current version.

Paul Avery: what is the current version? CS4 or CS5?

Pierce: We currently have both Adobe CS4 and CS5 available on our website.

Pierce: Adobe CS5 products are now available as pre-order.

Pierce: Paul, if you buy Adobe CS4 products now, you’ll be eligible for free upgrade to Adobe CS5 once it is released.

Paul Avery: but CS5 is not ready until mid-may…?

Pierce: Yes, you’re correct.

Paul Avery: ok, but do you see my point?

Paul Avery: i paid $$2823 (taxes in)

Paul Avery: and now CS5 is $2599 (no taxes)

Paul Avery: and the upgrade charge is $899

Paul Avery: i’d be OK if CS5 was $700 or more expensive

Paul Avery: but it is essentially the same price

Pierce: I understand, since you have already purchase Adobe CS4 Master Collection you need to buy Adobe CS5 product now.

Paul Avery: no, I don’t need to

Paul Avery: but I want CS5 upgrade for the difference between what I paid and what CS5 is selling for

Pierce: Since you have Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection, you can upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection for US$899.00

Pierce: Adobe CS5 Master Collection includes: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, Acrobat 9 Pro, Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash CS5 Professional, Flash Builder 4 Standard, Dreamweaver CS5, Fireworks CS5, Contribute CS5, Premiere Pro CS5, After Effects CS5, Soundbooth CS5, OnLocation CS5, Encore CS5.

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Pull FTP user/pass off of a linux plesk machine

Log-in to SSH as a super user (e.g. su – ) then get into the mysql prompt

mysql psa -u admin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`

Then run this query

select * from `sys_users` LEFT join `accounts` ON `sys_users`.`account_id`=`accounts`.`id`;

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