If you are trying to retrieve the ‘value’ of a file input box via Javascript, and you are receiving C:fakepath within the returned value, it is time to blame Internet Explorer 8. The inclusion of C:\fakepath\ is a security feature of Internet Explorer 8, designed to prevent information regarding the file system structure being exposed [...]
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C:\fakepath\ in Internet Explorer 8
All a Twitter about Microblogging and Social Media
Like my little joke there? I know, hilarious. Anyway – I’ve been talking quite a lot about Twitter recently and general social media. I’ve said this before of course, but social media truly is great for both driving direct traffic to your website and for general search engine optimisation. Of course, different services meet different needs. Take a [...]
Google’s Web Traffic Dominates the Internet
Google is huge. Really huge. Let’s see what that does to the graph. Graph sourced from Arbor Networks blog entry. The main reason for Google’s huge increase in general Internet traffic was its acquisition of YouTube in 2007. YouTube delivers huge quantities of streaming video traffic, and the impressive growth of YouTube alone is enough [...]
Google Chrome OS Raising Awareness of Open Source Software
I’m quite highly anticipating the release of Google Chrome OS – Google’s net book and appliance cloud operating system. There are a few main reasons behind this. Simplicity and Openness Note that I combine the two here. It is very important that both software user friendliness is combined with the nature of free and open source software to prevent [...]
Mono – Ubuntu Technical Board – Position on Mono and the integration of applications
I recently received the an e-mail from Scott James Remnant on behalf of the Ubuntu Technical Board, regarding their Position on Mono. Here is an extract. “…the Ubuntu Technical Board sees no reason to exclude Mono or applications based upon it from the archive, or from the default installation set. Since the Mono stack is [...]
Wine – Wine is not an emulator – it is a Windows compatibility layer
Wine is essentially a Windows compatibility layer for Linux, allowing Linux users to run Windows applications in a much more direct manner than full operating system virtualisation. More information about Wine is to come shortly. If you wish, you can visit the official Wine website to get more details about this excellent free piece of [...]
Uptime – How to find out how long your computer has been on – the uptime
In Windows, you can find your uptime via one of the following two methods commands. To enter these commands open a command prompt from the Start Menu or just execute cmd.exe systeminfo | find “Up Time” net statistics server (Note that this command displays actually shows the last boot time from which the uptime can [...]