The PHP functions htmlspecialchars and it’s reverse htmlspecialchars_decode only handles the following characters: ‘&’ (ampersand) becomes ‘&’ ‘”‘ (double quote) becomes ‘"’ when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set. ”’ (single quote) becomes ‘'’ only when ENT_QUOTES is set. ‘<‘ (less than) becomes ‘<’ ‘>’ (greater than) becomes ‘>’ If you want to output html text containing nordic/german characters […]
If you are installing the TYPO3 content management system (CMS), after uploading the files to your web server and setting some directory permissions, you are supposed to point your browser to your web server’s root where you just have installed TYPO3 in order to continue the installation. A screen similar to this is displayed: Enter […]
Just issue the command: # cat /etc/debian_version squeeze/sid
There are two ways: # cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l or # lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 Codename: karmic The latter is slower but gives more information.
Until recently Google streets has not been availible for Sweden and Denmark. There has been local sites with a similar function, like http://hitta.se/gatubild. But now you can also use Google streets for your virtual tour to Sweden and Denmark. Not only the large cities but also smaller villages and country roads can be seen in […]
So, did you also try to get this negitive/slide scanner to work in Windows Vista? No success? Thought so. Unfortunately I have found that Minolta scanners seems to have kind of a short life cycle in the eyes of the manufacturer. Like many other computer accessories that are not professional grade, drivers are availible for […]
I while ago I got my hands on a Linksys WRT54GL broadband router. This little fellow runs on Linux. Nice, I thought. After fiddling around with it for a while I found that the firmware had bugs. I added timed access restrictions (to cut off my teenagers Internet access automatically in the evening). This worked […]
The MySQL community around the world are getting worried about the possible acquistion of Sun Micosystems by Oracle. MySQL is community driven and often competes head to head with Sun Microsyftems commercial Oracle products. More than 14.000 MySQL users, developers and enthiusasts have signed a petition sent to regulators at the European Commission, Russia, China […]
Microsoft has sent out an urgent message encouraging all Windows XP users to upgrade their Adobe Flash plugins immediately due to a security issue. This includes users of both 32 and 64 bit Windows XP and both SP2 and SP3. The current version of Adobe Flash plugin is version 10.0.42.34. The latest version of Adobe […]
A while ago I recieved a Google Wave invite from a friend who had like 7 or 8 of them. Google Wave invites are not (yet) hard to get as the Spotify invites are. My first thought was that Google Wave was a service like Spotify where you can listen to music online. The word […]