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This online utility will let you convert a set of vcards file into either a .csv, or an LDIF file that youcan use to import into Thunderbird or other mail programs.

http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/→ Continue reading “Converting a .VCF file to .CSV”

Here are a few links to some guides to writing HTMLemail newsletters.

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters/

http://www.anandgraves.com/html-email-guide→ Continue reading “Writing HTML E-mail”

Anyone who has used it knows that the default styling for the HTML <sup> tag leaves a lot to be desired.  The biggest is that it modifies the line-height of the line on which it it rendered.

Here is some CSS that fixes that behavior:

sup
    {
    height: 0;
    line-height: 1px;
    position: relative;
    top: -0.6em;
    vertical-align: baseline !important;
    vertical-align: bottom;
    }→ Continue reading “CSS Styling for the HTML Superscript Tag”

If you have ever wanted to recursively search through all of the files in a directory for a specific string, here is the bash command to do it:

find . | xargs grep ‘string’ -sl→ Continue reading “How to search for a string in a group of text files from the Linux command line”

Here is a link to a great article that explains how to set your SVN repository to ignore a file, or collection of files.

Below is the mirrored content should the page no longer be available.

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
#      Ignore all the .txt files in the /trunk/Blah/ directory
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------

# Go to the directory
cd trunk/Blah/              # The directory with the files

# Start editing the properties for the current directory
svn propedit svn:ignore .   # Opens an editor 

If you have ever used a workstation whereby you login through remote access, you’ll notice that you cannot shut down the machine (even if you are able to boot it remotely).

If you want to shut it down simply run the following command at a command prompt:

%systemroot%system32shutdown.exe -s -t 0→ Continue reading “How to shutdown a Windows XP machine when logged in remotely”

Attached is a .zip file that contains the source code and a set of example web pages that will allow you to dynamically render links (or any html tag for that matter) with one of two classes depending on which page you are viewing

It gives you the ability to render nav bars that display items as selected and unselected.→ Continue reading “ASP .NET Script to Render Selected and Unselected Links Depending on Which Page You are Viewing”

If you have ever seen Firefox 2 and 3, IE 6 and/or IE 7 render the scroll bars on a div that has the overflow: auto property set what follows is a full description of the problem and a solution.

Click here for said solution.→ Continue reading “Why does the overflow: auto setting on a div nested in a table cell not render the scroll bars properly in IE 6, IE 7, and Firefox 2 and Firefox 3?”

I run a number of VMWare virtual machine instances on my Linux host and in one of them I do a lot of Photoshop work.  This involves a lot of holding down the Shift key, which with the default installation of Kubuntu 8.04 enables the sticky keys and slow keys accessibility options.

To turn this off, go to System Settings/Accessibility and click on the "Activation Gestures" tab.  Then uncheck the "Use gestures for activating sticky keys and slow keys".

Click → Continue reading “Disabling Sticky Keys under Kubuntu 8.04”