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Tip: Wordpress - Single Line Spacing

Often in your WordPress posts, the automatic double-spacing when you hit return (creating a <p>...

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Configuring Postfix to Send Email Via Authenticated SMTP

I recently switched email provision from in-house, hosted on our own Linux/Postfix server to a hosted...

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Linux: Delete Files Older Than x Days

Linux has a find command to which you can pass arguments to filter the list of files it returns.  One...

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Sage Trial Balance Doesn't Balance After Year End

It’s financial year end time at the companies I run so I needed to year end them one by one on...

Windows 7

Windows 7: Desktop Icons Disappear

If you create Desktop shortcuts to network or removable storage, the icons will disappear from time...

Tip: WordPress – Single Line Spacing

May 9, 2013dquinn Reply
Wordpress

Often in your WordPress posts, the automatic double-spacing when you hit return (creating a <p></p> instead of a <br>) can be a nuisance.  The easiest way to get a single line space is to hit SHIFT-Enter instead of just Enter.

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Configuring Postfix to Send Email Via Authenticated SMTP

May 2, 2013dquinn Reply
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I recently switched email provision from in-house, hosted on our own Linux/Postfix server to a hosted Rackspace service.  Our in-house servers send status updates to me via email so I needed to re-configure Postfix on those servers to send these

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Linux: Delete Files Older Than x Days

April 17, 2013dquinn Reply
Linux Admin

Linux has a find command to which you can pass arguments to filter the list of files it returns.  One of these arguments allows you to execute another command on each file.  With just a little care, you can use

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Sage Trial Balance Doesn’t Balance After Year End

April 11, 2013dquinn Reply
Sage Accounts

It’s financial year end time at the companies I run so I needed to year end them one by one on our Sage Line 50 Accounts systems (v2009).  Unfortunately the first one I came to do, at our Nottingham office

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Windows 7: Desktop Icons Disappear

April 4, 2013dquinn Reply
Windows 7

If you create Desktop shortcuts to network or removable storage, the icons will disappear from time to time because Windows 7 has an in-built task schedule to clean up broken and unused shortcuts so if it detects a shortcut to

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